The article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of modern migrantology — regulation of the qualitative composition of external migration flows and selective structuring of labor migration using the example of the EAEU member states. Effective tools for professional and qualification structuring of labor migration are the intellectualization and cognitive-mental adaptation of foreign workers and job seekers in the country of entry. The operation of these instruments in the EAEU region is associated with the development of the scientific potential of the member states of the Union. Structuring labor migration through intellectualization, cognitive and mental adaptation and science-oriented development of the EAEU countries is multi-vector and involves a comprehensive solution to the challenges of building a high-tech and efficient economy with innovative, creative and infrastructural industries; restructuring the labor market taking into account sought-after and promising professions, overcoming the imbalance of supply and demand of labor resources; digitalization and information technology support; formation of a unified educational, scientific and technological system with a common regional mental, spiritual and moral component and a mechanism for academic mobility; strategic planning; national and regional technological sovereignty; ensuring national and regional security, personal data protection; diplomatic and foreign policy aspects of interaction between the EAEU member states; financial and legal regulatory mechanisms. In considering the issues of building a unified educational system and academic mobility, the results of the author’s sociological research among foreign students of universities of the Russian Federation are used. The analysis of the structure and potential of the Russian labor market as a recipient of labor migrants from the EAEU member states, and the potential of the labor resources of regional migration donor states uses the results of sociological research published by the author in monographs. The article is scientific and practical in nature, which makes it relevant for specialists in the field of labor migration and the labor market, education and enlightenment, academic mobility, strategic planning, as well as for researchers and university students studying in the fields of international law, international economics, political science, national and universal history.

Кeywords: labor migration, EAEU member states, intellectualization, cognitive and mental adaptation, academic mobility, youth, EAEU labor market.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, K37, O15, R23

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Galas M.L. Vectors of Intellectualization and Cognitive-Mental Adaptation of Migrant Workers and the Scientific Potential of the EAEU Member States. Issues of Migration, 2025, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–20. https://doi.org/10.65324/im001

This article examines the impact of cross-border labor migration/mobility on the state and development of Bulgarian society. The methodological starting point is an understanding of society as a holistic, complex system whose elements are closely interconnected and mutually influence each other. In this context, demographic and human capital consequences are considered in addition to economic ones. This article addresses not only immediate consequences but also long-term ones. Official data from the National Statistical Institute and the Bulgarian National Bank, as well as information obtained through several empirical sociological studies, are used. The impact of migration is examined from three perspectives: the economy, demographic structures, and human capital. The quantitative and structural changes in the population (decrease in the population and the childbearing age group, increase in the proportion of elderly people), the dynamics of the settlement structure and regional development (depopulation of settlements, deterioration of living conditions in some regions), changes in the labor force (shortage of personnel, but also the application of knowledge and practices acquired abroad), the impact of cash inflows from abroad (increase in the income of direct recipients and improvement of their standard of living, increase in funds received from VAT, stimulation of economic growth with the possibility of achieving a multiplier effect, but also in the long term stimulation of the emigration of more and more new contingents of workers and specialists), the formation of deficits (cognitive, emotional) of socialization in children of migrants left by their parents in the country of origin were traced.

Keywords: cross-border migration, demographic structure, labor force, brain drain, remittances, socialization.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, K37, O15, R23

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Mantarova A.I. Cross-border labor migration: opportunities and barriers for Bulgaria’s development. Issues of Migration, 2025, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21–27. https://doi.org/10.65324/im002

The article is devoted to the analysis of the foreign migration policy of the Russian Federation in the period from 1991 to 2025. The main stages of its evolution are considered — from the policy of “open doors” in the 1990s to the modern pragmatic concept focused on ensuring national security. Special attention is paid to key areas: the policy towards compatriots abroad, the regulation of labor migration, adaptation and integration of migrants. Based on the analysis of the regulatory framework and statistical data, the main trends, problems and prospects of the development of Russia’s foreign migration policy are identified.

Keywords: external migration policy, Russian Federation, compatriots, labor migration, national security, integration of migrants, Eurasian integration.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, K37, O15, R23

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Kashirina T.V. Russia’s External Migration Policy in 1991–2025: Evolution, Priorities, and Prospects. Issues of Migration, 2025, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 28–31. https://doi.org/10.65324/im003

The article examines the current problems of migration from the perspective of a sociological approach, revealing the features of migration as a social phenomenon, process and social institution based on diverse documentary, empirical and statistical material. The theoretical and methodological basis of the analytical work consists of theories of modes of social time, the paradigm of new economic sociology, and particular sociological theories: gender sociology, monetary and management sociology. The author reveals the specifics of social relations that cause the intensification of migration from Asian CIS countries, the structure of their migration flows, sociogender relations and gender asymmetry, enclave settlement, etc. From the standpoint of managerial regulation of processes, their actions in the social space are analyzed. The Concept of Migration Policy Development for 2026–2030, adopted by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, is analyzed.

Key words: migration, social world, global migration, social process, social institution, social dumping, monetization of migration, labor resources, feminization of migration, migration policy.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, K37, O15, R23

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Sillaste G.G. Russia: a Country-Specific Fragment of Global Migration. Issues of Migration, 2025, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 32–45. https://doi.org/10.65324/im004

The present study aims to define the international legal base to provide status of migrants on universal and regional level. The author attends to modern legal approaches to principles of population movement regulation. Both theoretical international legal grounds and current normative acts in the field of migration and human rights are proposed to explore. The significant moment of the study links with differentiation of the contemporary migration types and determines, in the same time, legal distinctions regarding status of forced and voluntary migrants. Stable legal terms, used by interstate community to unify international legal institutes for migration regulation, are summarized here.

Keywords: international migration, legal status of migrants, forced displacement, interstate cooperation, human rights, voluntary movements.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, K37, O15, R23

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Yastrebova A.Yu. Сontent of the migrants’ legal status in international law. Issues of Migration, 2025, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 46–50. https://doi.org/10.65324/im005