Long-term trends of migration policy and pandemic influence

On August 25 the Valdai club submitted the new report "The international migration during a pandemic era: rupture of communications, money transfers and migrant-phobia". In an opening speech the moderator of discussion Oleg Nikolaevich Barabanov, the program director of Valdai club, noted that in the period of a pandemic the problem of migration became one of the sharpest in many countries, having added that to Russian Federation offers of the authorities again to open the country for labor migration face resistance – both in a context of lobbist fight, and in connection with a migrant-phobia...