The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on BRICS Migrants in the Russian Federation

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ID4460465
AuthorsAzamat Valei (0000-0002-9583-6542, corresponding author), Suleiman Mamman, Suleiman O Mamman (0000-0003-3204-0595)
Year2024
Volume25
Issue2
Pages160-176
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Economic Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1726-3247 • E-ISSN: 1726-3247
PublisherNational Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17323/1726-3247-2024-2-160-176
OpenAlexW4393904970
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited121

Within the last decade, the Russian Federation has witnessed an unprecedented growth in migrants' inflow placing it amongst the top destinations for transnational migrants. This trend includes members of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economic bloc whose obvious increase started in the post-2010 era. Thus, it is unclear whether the economic cooperation has facilitated migration flow or other socioeconomic factors which could be explained by the Pull-Push theory are responsible. The study carried out an empirical assessment of the socioeconomic factors that determine BRICS migrants to Russia on a macro scale using data from the member states that include Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. The heterogeneous panel model was adopted as the analytical method. The result reveals a negative effect of Russian wages on immigrants' inflow while GDP per capita had a positive effect. For the push factors, unemployment had a positive and significant effect in the short run but not so in the long run. Also, the population had a negative and insignificant effect in the short run but a positive and significant effect in the long run. The income differentials were also found to be positive and significant in the model. Lastly, there was evidence of policy effect on the migrants' movement; however, concerning BRICS countries, there was rather a negative effect of migration policy on the immigrants mobility. © 2024 National Research University, Higher School of Econoimics. All rights reserved

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Regional science · Russian federation · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Demography · Global Political and Economic Relations · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends

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