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Российские дискурсы о миграции
In Russian society there are mutually excluding approaches to evaluating economical consequences of inward migrations: from extremely liberal focusing on positive consequences of drawing immigrants for future Russia's socio-economical development to prevailing state-guarding ones paying attention to negative consequences of illegal employment, money transfers of immigrants, "brain draining", etc. The article sets forth the peculiarities of discourses on migration and migrational policy in terms of mass media, officials, public politics and academic interests. The conclusion is drawn about weak communication between them, segmentation of discourses mentioned. The only intersection point of these discourses is forcing up alarmist attitudes in society. The comparison is drawn between the discourses on migration policy in Russia and the USA and on the role of tragic events in these countries (reaction to terrorist acts in Beslan and September 11,2001).
This article describes the results of sociological research on estimation of condition and development prospects of federalism in Russia, which was conducted by ZIRCON Research Group in January - May 2011. The opinion of population and elite groups of four regions about the foundations of Russian federalism development, administrative-territorial system of the Russian Federation and its principles, relations between subjects-regions and federative centre is presented. The results of the research indicate that at the moment a request for political and administrative autonomy of the subjects of the Federation is not obviously formulated by either citizens or regional elite groups. Regional identity is not a common phenomenon. The authors mark out necessary factors of federalism development: expansion of economic self-dependence of regions, existence of ethno-national or regional identity of citizens, democratization and decentralization.
The chapter contains a review of labour migration trends and migration policies in the area of the Commonwealth of independend states.
Several approaches to the concept of fatherhood present in Western sociological tradition are analyzed and compared: biological determinism, social constructivism and biosocial theory. The problematics of fatherhood and men’s parental practices is marginalized in modern Russian social research devoted to family and this fact makes the traditional inequality in family relations, when the father’s role is considered secondary compared to that of mother, even stronger. However, in Western critical men’s studies several stages can be outlined: the development of “sex roles” paradigm (biological determinism), the emergence of the hegemonic masculinity concept, inter-disciplinary stage (biosocial theory). According to the approach of biological determinism, the role of a father is that of the patriarch, he continues the family line and serves as a model for his ascendants. Social constructivism looks into man’s functions in the family from the point of view of masculine pressure and establishing hegemony over a woman and children. Biosocial theory aims to unite the biological determinacy of fatherhood with social, cultural and personal context. It is shown that these approaches are directly connected with the level of the society development, marriage and family perceptions, the level of egality of gender order.