FEATURES OF THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTIC FOR THE PEOPLES OF EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2021-2-4-94-101

УДК 39:394

ББК 63.5

Albina I. MINAKOVA

Key words

polyethnicity of the region, the Republic of Mordovia, migrants, economic activity, peoples of expatriate community

Abstract

The polyethnicity of the Republic of Mordovia, an equal subject of the Russian Federation, is confirmed by the 2010 census data. According to the All-Russian census, the population of 119 nationalities lives here. The increase in the number of nationalities in the regions results in an increase in contacts between people and the impact on ethnic processes. The interaction of ethnic groups affects all aspects of the life of an ethnic group: from the way of life, including customs, rituals, type of clothing, dietary habits, relationships with nature, social relationships of ethnic groups, to the forms of economic activity of ethnic groups. Eastern European peoples, especially the Ukrainians, the Belarusians, as well as representatives of the peoples of Transcaucasia and the Central Asia living in Mordovia, are commonly found in a natural assimilation, which is expressed in some common features of their economic activities, culture and way of life. The purpose of the study is to analyze the features of economic activity carried out by the peoples living in a non-native environment outside their historical homeland. The main objective of the study is to demonstrate the factors that determine the specifics of the economic activity carried out by the peoples of expatriate community in Mordovia.

The scientific novelty lies in the fact that it is for the first time that the study makes an attempt to comprehensively study the features of the economic activities carried out by the peoples of expatriate community living in a non-native environment.

The general scientific method of research in the work consists in a general analysis of the economic components of ethnic groups in a non-native environment.

The results of the study intend to identify specific features of the economic structure of migrants from Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia in the polyethnic region of the Volga Federal District.

The peoples of the foreign countries living in Mordovia successfully adapted to the Republic, this was facilitated by the similarity of the living and economic conditions of the migrants in question in new territories and unfamiliar places with the areas of exodus.

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Information about the author

Albina I. Minakova – Post-Graduate Student, Research Institute of the Humanities by the Government of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, Saransk; Senior Lecturer, Department of Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property and Judicial, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia, Moscow (Lilalbina@mail.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3938-7276).

For citations

Minakova A.I. FEATURES OF THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTIC FOR THE PEOPLES OF EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA. Historical Search, 2021, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 94–101. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2021-2-4-94-101 (in Russian).

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