Asymmetry of Youth Migration in the South of Russia: Sociological Analysis

The article is devoted to the analysis of migration processes in the south of Russia. The relevance of a comprehensive study of youth mobility, its structure, various aspects and factors is emphasized. The main interdisciplinary and sociological theoretical and methodological approaches to the consideration of migration phenomena, asymmetry and their interrelation are considered. The definition of migration asymmetry is given, its duality (process and result) is emphasized. Statistical data on the migration balance of the southern regions and related indicators, including educational and labor migration of individual cohorts of young people, are presented. Two types of youth migration in the south of Russia are characterized: educational and labor. The analysis of the results of regional and federal sociological studies on various aspects of interregional and local mobility is carried out. Conclusions are drawn about the trends and some properties of the migration process in the conditions of modern Russian reality; the practical and theoretical significance of the conclusions is determined.