title: The Economic Importance and the Attempts to Regulate the Foreign Labor Migration in the Western Part of the Russian Empire (late 19th — early 20th Century)
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metadata.value: Ivanov, A. A.
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metadata.value: Kotov, A. E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:40:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:40:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Ivanov A. A., Kotov A. E. ‘The Economic Importance and the Attempts to Regulate the Foreign Labor Migration in the Western Part of the Russian Empire (late 19th — early 20th Century)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 70–88.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17307
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metadata.value: This paper investigates foreign labor migration from the Western region of the Russian empire, which
  from the late 19th to early 20th century provided the most economic emigrants. Special emphasis is placed on
  labor migration to overseas countries (USA, Argentina, Brazil, etc.). The authors consider the impact of temporary
  labor migration on agriculture, land-utilization, and other economic sectors of this region. They also study
  attempts of local and central authorities to work out an official position on regulating labor migration. The essay
  introduces new sources that allow us to refine our understanding of the attitude of Russian authorities towards
  labor migration. The authors conclude that the wide scale of labor migration and financial means invested into the
  regional economy made the authorities reconsider their attitude about letting parts of the population of western
  provinces go abroad to make a decent livelihood. Realizing that on a national scale labor migration was an undesirable
  phenomenon, the authorities had no choice but to acknowledge that for its western regions, its role was
  largely positive: it reduced social tension, mitigated competition for job opportunities, improved the local population’s
  wellbeing, and provided a solution to the problem of land scarcity and enabled implementation of the
  Stolypin’s agrarian program in the region. All of this, along with a shadow economy around emigration, led authorities
  to find ways of legalization and legal response to foreign labor migration. Discussion of these issues showed
  that incoherence, lack of a clear understanding of measures for regulating labor migration, and differences in
  departmental vested interests prevented implementing meaningful solutions before World War I, which put an
  end to both the movement of labor across the western border and the development of a regulatory environment.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 18-18-00142 “The Center and the
  regions: state economic policy on the outskirts of the Russian Empire (1894–1917)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western outskirts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western provinces
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: labor migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: center
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic policy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Economic Importance and the Attempts to Regulate the Foreign Labor Migration in the Western Part of the Russian Empire (late 19th — early 20th Century)
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metadata.value: Article
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