PROBLEMS OF PERCEIVING MIGRANT WORKERS BY THE HOST COMMUNITY IN CHUVASHIA

DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-4-75-83

УДК 314.745.3-054.7:331(092)(470.344)«20»

ББК Т3(2Рос.Чув)64-284.6

Petr N. MATYUSHIN, Mariya S. NIKOLAEVA, Elena V. PLOTNIKOVA

Key words

migrant workers, migrant employment, cultural differences, mass media about migrants, stereotypes and attitudes

Abstract

The article presents the survey materials which included 300 residents of Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk and three suburban villages on the problems of perceiving migrant workers. Perception of labor migration has become the most relevant aspect in the everyday life of the Russian society in the last decade, defining the characteristic “historicisms” of interethnic perception. For respondents, important factors in positive perceiving newcomers are their knowledge of the Russian language, the duration of their stay in Russia. Judging by the answers, residents of Cheboksary agglomeration most often used the services of migrants in the field of trade and foodservice, other types of their activities did not affect a significant part of the long-term residents. According to respondents, it is not necessary to talk about a significant impact of migrants on the life of respondents in the economic and social sphere, from this point of view, neutral assessments and stereotypes prevail. It is noted that cases of joint educating children of local residents and newcomers are significantly accepted. Every 9 out of 10 respondents supported the proposal on the need for migrants to get acquainted with the local traditions and cultural characteristics of the old-timers.

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Information about the authors

Petr N. Matyushin – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department for Document Science, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (pet316@yandex.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3098-988X).

Mariya S. Nikolaeva – a Competitor of Scientific Degree of Historical Sciences Candidate, Department for Document Science, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (mari.skvortsova.94@inbox.ru).

Elena V. Plotnikova – Senior Lecturer, Department for Document Science, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (lenchik52001@rambler.ru).

For citations

Matyushin P.N., Nikolaeva M.S., Plotnikova E.V. PROBLEMS OF PERCEIVING MIGRANT WORKERS BY THE HOST COMMUNITY IN CHUVASHIA. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2021, no. 4, pp. 75–83. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-4-75-83 (in Russian).

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