摘要：The results of two waves of surveying of labor migrants in a number of Russian regions have
demonstrated that over the past year their number in Russia declined, while the principal changes
occurred not so much in the volumes of migration than in the legal to illegal migration ratio. The
crisis gave rise to a new ‘relapse’ towards large-scale illegitimate use of migrant labor. The restrictive
measures introduced in Russia with regard to labor migration from the other CIS countries have
produced only an illusion that the number of labor migrants is declining, while in reality these
measures promote illegal employment of migrants while at the same time strengthen the ‘shadow’
infrastructure that makes this employment possible.
