Migrant families in industrialized countries: new dimensions of integration problems[Семьи Мигрантов В Индустриально Развитых Странах: Новые Измерения Проблемы Интеграции]

Despite the new demographic opportunities coming from the migration inflow, the governments of the receiving countries cannot but realize the possible risks. In particular, this is the rise of nationalist populism as a reaction to the growth of ethnocultural diversity. The most vulnerable category of the population in terms of adaptation to new social realities is the so-called “second generation of migrants” - children who grew up in migrant families. Born in European countries, but often being perceived as aliens by the host societies, children from such families are often susceptible to social deprivation. In Russia, migrants from the second generation are only entering social life. Therefore, a thorough study of the European experience migrant’s children integration is of particular importance. The paper traces the evolution of approaches to the social incorporation of second-generation immigrants; analyzes the mechanisms for ensuring the “entrance” into the system of public institutions; reveals which cultural and religious practices function more likely as a “barrier” to civil integration, and which, on the contrary, contribute to it; outlines the Russian institutional context of the socialization of second-generation immigrants.