Immigration In Russia
Immigration to Russia has been of great option for most of the countries. The government of Russia though has got liberal by encouraging immigration, yet the number of illegal immigration has risen beyond expectations. These immigrations are creating lots of problems to the country. The immigrant people often get stuck with the idea of identity and demands for political liberty and religious freedom. They also get into the economic structure of the country and start possessing their share. The issues get severe when the immigration turns illegal. They take share of the resources and get into every walk of local life making the life for the locals more competitive and chaotic. Immigration, especially illegal immigration creates anxiety, criminal problems, antagonism and shortages in communities like those of schooling and employment scopes.
The paper deals with the problem of Immigration in Russia and discovers the problems that are growing within Russia due to these immigrants. It is an attempt to discover how the local population is suffering in every walk of their existence within the country and how helpless is the government in dealing with these problems.
Illegal Immigrants in Russia
Russia has always faced constant and regular flow of immigration from various countries. At an average there are 200,000 legal immigrants get into the country, per year. Among these, half of them are ethnic Russians belonging to other republics of the former Soviet Union. There are millions of Chinese, Ukrainians, Azeris, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzs and Armenians working or doing business in Russia. Apart from these legal immigrants there are 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants estimated within the country. Though illegal border crossing is a crime and when caught can have sentence to prison term, it still continues with Russia. As a whole under liberal estimations, Russia has around 15 million immigrants, sharing the local resources and getting into the social, political and economic lives of local Russians.
Problems due to Immigrations
There are numerous problems faced by Russia due to mass immigrations. These immigrations are both legal and illegal. Though the legal immigrations are still under legal supervisions and gets restricted as per the demand of the country. There are no restrictions for illegal immigrations and as such the problems are growing with it. Initially Russia was strictly regulated and restricted in terms of traveling contexts. But with the loosening of these restrictions lots of people are getting into the country and are creating risks to the lives of Russian citizens. All these illegal immigrants are like illegal aliens. They are creating larger problems in social issues and issues related to time constraints resulting to disputed consequences in Russia. These consequences are in the field of social welfare, economy, education, slavery, health care, prostitution, voting rights, legal protections, human rights and public services.
Major Soft Security Threat
The immigrants get into Russia without any proper source and they create tension within the country. These immigrants do not get recognized by the security of Russia and as such they create security threats for the citizens. Most of the people come from Islamic groups and they are so well trained that it becomes hard for the local authority to discover their motives. Though there are local Islamic people who too suffer from these threats, yet the risks continues more among other communities. The reports led by Todd (2007) show that there are fast growth of crimes in Russia and above all there are lack of legislative and judicial enforcements, in order to prevent all these international and terroristic crimes.
Demographic Problems
Russia is facing problems by immigrants in the field of demography. The problems are related to the issues of delivering sovereignty added by territorial integrity to these immigrants. These people suffer from diasporas and there are extreme levels of identity crisis in them. This is the reason that most often these people demands for sovereignty and political participation in the country. They create rallies and inspire strikes with people of their kinds and create extreme demographic problems. According to Vladimir Putin,
“Russia is the world’s largest country by land area, and if it goes on like this, there will be no one to protect it.”
— Putin. Vnn Forum
Keeping this in view, Russia is now working on various legislative levels and is facilitating the selected legal immigrants with a grant for citizenship. These are those immigrants who are willing to serve for Russia in Russian Army.
Employment Problems
As compared to other Eurasian countries, Russia is comparatively rich, and that attracts most of the Eurasian to get into the Russian economic structure. These people get into Russia with the motive of getting a job or developing business. The purpose is to earn and that increases the level competitiveness in professional fields. These people get into the economic structure of Russia and that cuts down the job opportunity for all those people who cannot compete well. Among these the citizens suffer more, as these people come with more proficiency.
Economic Dominance
The intervention of the immigrants into the field of entrepreneurship; further helps them to cover the economic domains. The capital earned by the country too has got the contributions led by these immigrants and as such they too get a good share of it. People who come to Russia on temporary basis earn a lot by these means and deprive the local contemporaries from earning the same. Along with the increase in employment levels these immigrants thus deducts the economic shares from the citizens of Russia immigrants in Russia are earning a total amount of $20 to $30 billion on annual basis. They have got into the jurisdiction of trade, commerce, industry, engineering, construction, irrigation, agriculture and every possible sphere of Russia economic structure.
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