Problems of labor migration from Tajikistan to Eastern Siberia in the post-Soviet era

The paper examines the problems of labor migration from Tajikistan to Eastern Siberia in the post-Soviet era. At the first stage of the development of migration ties between the countries of Central Asia and Eastern Siberia in the 1990s. the specificity of Tajikistan manifested itself, where labor migration of the indigenous ethnic group of the state was more noticeable. The number of legal labor migrants from Tajikistan in the Krasnoyarsk Region and the Irkutsk Region amounted to tens or hundreds of people a year; they were numerically many times inferior to labor migrants from the countries of East Asia, Transcaucasia, and Ukraine. In the second half of the first decade of the XXI century there was a sharp increase in the number of legal labor migrants in Eastern Siberia. The number of labor migrants from Tajikistan went to thousands and tens of thousands of people. Tajiks took a leading position among foreign labor migrants. The majority of labor migrants from Tajikistan were employed in the construction sector, but their labor was also present in other sectors of the national economy. Among foreign labor migrants, the Tajiks gave the highest indicator of the duration of residence in one place and the acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation. The migration links of Tajikistan to Eastern Siberia throughout the entire post-Soviet history were in many ways similar and correlated with the migration processes of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. However, the Tajiks gave the main (after the citizens of Ukraine) migration increase in the population of the Russian Federation at the beginning of the XXI century.