Impatriation as a Phenomenon and a Direction of Development Policy (the Case of Russia)

Migration has become one of the leading megatrends of our time. It has a multidirectional economic, cultural and political impact on host societies. The composition of migration flows is also being reformatted. In particular, the relatively small but politically significant so-called value migration is becoming more relevant: in Russia, against the background of the Special Military Operation, this migration phenomenon has become widespread. The purpose of the article is to lay the foundation for studying the problems of impatriation using political science methods. The authors analyze the main substantive characteristics of the concept of “impatriation” through its manifestation in the information environment and in social realities in the context of local and international socio-political processes, foreign and Russian regulatory, political-practical and historical experience. The methodological basis of the research includes a comparative approach, methods of analyzing documents, discourses and cases. The result of the study is the author’s definition of the concept of “impatriation”; characteristics of foreign models similar to Russian impatriation, using the example of Poland and Hungary; classification of the main growth points and the most probable limitations associated with the implementation of Russia’s impatriation policy in the near future; the institutional design of the impatriation mechanism is revealed. The transition to the impatriation policy contributed to the launch of a number of organizational transformation processes at the local and regional levels associated with the need to ensure “seamless” reception and adaptation of in-demand highly qualified foreign specialists. The role of impatriation is outlined in two contours – external (impatriation as a tool for promoting Russian interests abroad) and internal (impatriation as an auxiliary factor in the preservation and development of human capital) – for the implementation of Russia’s development goals.