Migrant Workers Russia has Expelled Committing More Crimes on Return to Their Homelands, Bastrykhin Says, Thus Confirming His Negative View of Them

Paul Goble

            Staunton, May 23 – Aleksandr Bastrykhin, chairman of the Russian Investigations Committee, says that migrant workers Russia has expelled are committing more crimes upon their return to their homelands, a trend that he argues confirms that these countries had been sending criminals to Russia in the first place.

            His claim that Central Asian countries have been sending criminals to Russia (stoletie.ru/obschestvo/vse_flagi_v_gosti_k_nam_920.htm) will further exacerbate ethnic tensions in the Russian Federation and lead to even more demands that Moscow expel immigrant workers and their families.

            Such a claim will only exacerbate relations between Russians and migrant workers and lead to more demands by the former for the expulsion of the latter. That is unfortunate as is Bastrykhin’s apparent ignorance of or willingness to ignore the ways in which residence in Russian cities has a negative impact on non-Russian workers.

            For discussions of this negative impact, which likely explains any rise in crime among returning migrant workers, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/10/gastarbeiters-in-russia-contributing-to.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/04/window-on-eurasia-without-new-mosques.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/08/emerging-ethnic-enclaves-in-moscow-seen.html.