Public opinion and everyday practices of residents of megacities as a manifestation of tension in relations with migrant workers

The article examines the peculiarities of interethnic relations between Russians and foreign citizens who come to Russia temporarily or for permanent residence. The United States of America was one of the first to face the problem of interethnic relations in similar conditions and scales with modern Russia. The author refers to the experience of American researchers who developed the stages of entry of foreign citizens into the host society, also described the conditions and factors of accelerating adaptation to life in new socio-cultural conditions. On the basis of theoretical provisions, the measures of the migration policy of the Russian Federation aimed at the socio-psychological adaptation of foreign citizens to the host society are analyzed. The positive and negative adaptations are considered, the conclusion is made about socio-psychological adaptation as a multifactorial procedure, providing, first of all, the desire and willingness of the foreign citizen himself to become part of a new socio-cultural system for himself.