The problem of ethnic migration to the Russian Far East and its features in the Sakhalin region

Abstract

Foreign migration to the Russian Far East is a comparatively new phenomenon; however within the period of the last 15 years there have emerged certain problems of interaction between ethnic migrants and the receiving society. The article provides data on ethnic migration in the Far Eastern region of Russia and in Sakhalin Island that can serve as empirical background for analysis of how different groups of ethnic migrants could be integrated in the Russian society.