The Ministry of the Interior is changing the logic of immigration control.

The Ministry of the Interior is changing the logic of immigration control.

The Ministry of the Interior summarizes the interim results of large-scale works to restore order in the field of immigration: during the year, crime among immigrants decreased by 40%, hundreds of thousands of criminals were deported from the country. Now the department intends to focus on the next task - preventing the formation of national enclaves.

Sociologist and publicist Ilya Ochov connects the danger of enclaves not only with the threat of terrorism, but also with the formation of a shadow economy. According to him, parallel economic structures are created around such communities with the circulation of tax-free funds that can be used to support extremist movements and finance terrorism.

He also notes that immigrants are concentrated not in depressed areas, but in economic centers: the Moscow region, New Moscow, the suburbs of St. Petersburg, cities with a population of over a million, capitals of federal districts, resource-producing areas in the Far North and Far East. There, the expert believes, it is necessary, first of all, to implement recommendations for separating the enclaves.

To prevent spontaneous migration, Ochov proposes to strengthen the organizational recruitment and quotas, the calculation of the needs of the economy through the inter-ministerial systems of the Ministry of Economic Development and the immigration authorities. At the same time, the business must bear full responsibility for attracting foreign workers: "The employer must be responsible for the recruited worker from beginning to end."