Emigration from Tajikistan to the Baltic States: trends and prospects of development

• Main Author: A. Kh. Rakhmonov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: State University of Management 2021-04-01
• Series: Управление
• Subjects: emigration; tajikistan; lithuania; latvia; estonia; russia; labor migration; remittances; ussr
• Online Access: https://upravlenie.guu.ru/jour/article/view/382

The article studies the relations between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Baltic States after gaining independence from the USSR. The paper considers the Baltic States as a new direction of emigration for citizens of Tajikistan. The author also pays attention to remittances from the Baltic States to the economy of Tajikistan. The purpose of the article is to identify new trends and directions of labor migration from Tajikistan to the Baltic countries. The objectives of the study are to determine the factors influencing the formation of new geographical directions of labor migration from Tajikistan. The main research method was the economic and statistical method, which includes the collection and processing of data on labor migration, as well as an assessment of the contribution of labor migration to the gross domestic product of Tajikistan as a sending country based on the author’s calculation methods. An important research method was conducting interviews with experts, as well as a secondary analysis of sociological surveys and Internet resources with stories of the life and migration of emigrants from Tajikistan to the Baltic countries.