Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 27 – Approximately one million migrant workers left Russia during the first three quarters of 2024, the result of restrictions Russian officials have imposed on them, according to Andrey Kladov, an expert on migration who heads the Migrant Services Platform. Some sectors of the Russian economy are already suffering and more will if this continues.
Kladov says that the departure of migrant workers, most to the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is already obvious to the naked eye, with employers now advertising many jobs that migrant workers had filled in the past. Employers have responded by boosting the pay and other benefits they offer.
According to the specialist on migration, the average monthly wage offered to immigrants rose from 105,000 rubles (1050 US dollars) to 150,000 rubles (1500 US dollars) over this period, but that was not enough to hold immigrants who now must be offered housing and other benefits in order to keep them from returning to their own countries.
Russian officials claim that the total number of migrant workers has not fallen because those departed have been replaced by those arriving, and Kladov in his remarks is not clear as to whether he is speaking about a net decline or simply the number of those who have left. His words about an emerging labor shortage, however, suggest, he is speaking about the former rather than the latter.
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