CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
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About the Author
Shiau-shyang Liou is Assistant Research Fellow, Division of Non-traditional Security and Military Missions at INDSR. His research focuses on non-traditional security studies, Russian foreign policy, Russia & CIS Studies, China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” and migration research.
This article was published in Russian Analytical Digest No. 230: The Russian Far East
Abstract
Importing immigrant labor from neighboring China is the simplest and most effective way to resolve thelabor shortage in the Russian Far East. Indeed, against the background of the Ukraine crisis and its “Turnto the East,” Russia has relaxed its restrictions on Chinese immigration. At the same time, however, thenumber of Chinese immigrant workers in Russia may actually decrease in forthcoming years, due to theincrease in per capita income in China and the looming labor shortages in China due to its aging population.
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