Definitions of external and internal labour migration in the framework of the sociological research

This article reviews definitions of external and internal labor migration in the legal and scholar literature in the framework of the research of everyday practices of migrant workers. The author considers definitions of internal and external labor migration and migrants in the international law, Russian law and Russian sociological literature. The analysis has allowed the author to formulate the most complete definitions of the concepts to be used in the sociological study of everyday practices of migrant workers.