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Cohort research on Russian youth intraregional migration
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Kashnitsky I. S.
As long as migration involves mainly young people, their relocation to the big cities has the strongest impact on sex-age structures both in core and peripheral areas. That’s why we are focusing our biggest part of attention on this particular age group in this paper. Unfortunately, Russian migration statistics is quite unreliable. It has failed to record “student age” movement in the last decades. So we consider the best way to fill this gap is to use the Census data. In this paper we used the so called “method of shifting ages”. The core idea is to compare cohorts in adjacent census years taking mortality into account. The discrepancy would stand for migration. The curtail advantage of this method is that, having appropriate data, we can evaluate migration losses and gains at any administrative level. Our data allows us to study intraregional population dynamics. As mortality is insignificant in youth cohorts, we are mostly dealing with migration. Our estimates show that during the last intercensus period (2002-2010) up to 70 percent of youth cohorts have left regional periphery for good after graduating school. For comparison, previous intercensus period (1989-2002) has shown only 40 percent decrease in periphery’s youth cohorts. At the end of the research author’s method of estimating the trend in regional center’s migration attractiveness for the youths is presented.
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Context and relevance. The topic is relevant from the perspective of the problem of youth outflow, which is characteristic of both Russian regions and individual territories within regions. One of the factors of youth migration is considered to be a sense of belonging to the local community. The desire for a sense of belonging is one ...
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Nowadays small cities often lose population. In countries which are forerunners of the demographic transition, depopulation is mainly driven by out‐migration of youth. Through a case study of students from small Russian cities, this paper explores the nature of the association between local identity (LI) and migration intentions. The study suggests that young people with ...
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Kashnitsky I. S., Geo Journal 2020 Vol. 85 No. 1 P. 173–185
This paper investigates youth migration in Russia at the sub-regional level of administrative division. The aim of the research is to assess the volume of internal youth migration in cohort perspective. The task is only doable with the use of census data, which not only makes it possible to conduct research at the sub-regional level, ...
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Kashnitsky I. S., Mkrtchyan N. V., Leshukov O., Educational studies 2016 No. 3 P. 169–203
Not dissimilar to many other countries, migration in Russia has a pronounced age-dependent pattern with the peak intensity at the age when people obtain higher and professional education. In this paper, we analyze migration intensity at student age (17–21) using three sources of demographic data with regard to their key opportunities and limitations. We compare ...
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Added: April 6, 2017
Kashnitsky I. S., Mkrtchyan N. V., Leshukov O., Educational studies 2016 Vol. 13 No. 3 P. 169–203
Not dissimilar to many other countries, migration in Russia has a pronounced age-dependent pattern with the peak intensity at the age when people obtain higher and professional education. In this paper, we analyze migration intensity at student age (17–21) using three sources of demographic data with regard to their key opportunities and limitations. We compare ...
Added: December 6, 2016
Kashnitsky I. S., Mkrtchyan N. V., Leshukov O., Вопросы образования 2016 Т. 13 № 3 С. 169–203
Not dissimilar to many other countries, migration in Russia has a pronounced age-dependent pattern with the peak intensity at the age when people obtain a professional education. In this paper, we analyze migration intensity at student age (17–21) using three sources of demographic data with due regard for their key opportunities and limitations. We compare ...
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In this research we are studying the impact of migration on demographic structures at sub-regional level of administrative division using census data. We are focusing our prime attention on the youth migration because their relocation determines the greatest changes in the demographic structure. The main method of our research is “survival method”, a cohort-wise approach. ...
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Sabirova G., Zinoviev Alexey, Community development journal 2016 Vol. 51 No. 4 P. 482–498
This article offers a discussion and interpretation of recent ethnographic research into the nature of male public space in a sports club in St. Petersburg. Particular focus was put on examining the how the children of migrants interacted and socialised at the club. This study has attempted to take a positive/critical approach to the analysis ...
Added: December 10, 2014
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In this paper we study youth migration in Russia at the sub-regional level of administrative division. The aim of the research is to assess the volume of internal youth migration. The task is only doable with the use of census data, which not only allows us to research at the sub-regional level, but also provides ...
Added: December 9, 2014
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Migration has become the crucial component of the changes in demographic structure of population. Youth migration is the most important factor forming the demographic face of the future populatuon. ...
Added: October 20, 2014