| الملخص: | This item is a theoretical & methodological attempt of comprehending the process of foreign migrants' adjustment and integration in Russia. The theoretical statements put forth herein rely on analysis of the migration studies conducted in Russia in the recent years as well as on the authors' research experience gained through investigating adjustment and integration of various migrant groups. The article also dwells on the meaning and the correlation between terms like socio-economic adjustment and ethnic & cultural integration, with a special focus on the fundamental differences between the two. The idea put forward here implies that there is a need for taking into account geographic aspects of migrant adjustment and integration, and certain methodological approaches are proposed that might be used to carry out such geographic analysis. Three major models are proposed for adjustment of foreign migrants - inert, active, and deviant, while the prevalence of these depends ethnic & demographic and socio-cultural features pertaining to both the migrant and the hosting communities, the level of their ethnic complementary capacity, the progress in the legal and institutional regional environment, etc. There is also an indication of the need for developing the concept of the regional adjustment & integration policy as a mandatory part of the migration policy, whereas the informational basis of that could employ poly-scale geo-informational monitoring of migration that would allow following the current status and the dynamics of the adjustment & integration processes at various local levels - from communities to the entire country - given the migration policy currently pursued by the Russian Federation.
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