%0 Journal Article %T Problemy migracji zarobkowej w Azji Centralnej w ujęciu gospodarczym i społecznym %A Włodarczyk, Michał %J Wschodnioznawstwo %V 2018 %N Tom 12 %P 215-227 %K labour migration, Central Asia, demography, integration, xenophobia %@ 2082-7695 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wschodnioznawstwo/artykul/problemy-migracji-zarobkowej-w-azji-centralnej-w-ujeciu-gospodarczym-i-spolecznym %X Problems of labour migration in Central Asia in economic and social aspect The article handles the problem of labour migration from Central Asia to the Russian Federation. While underlining an importance of discussion about migration in contemporary politics, there are described characteristics of the region and differences between states that constitute it – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, their various approaches to migration policy and resulting different scales of labour migration and amounts of remittances as GDP share are also presented. Next, there are distinguished push and pull factors concerning those countries (and the Russian Federation) – economic, demographic, cultural and political. The main body of the paper is focused on challenges which labour migration poses both for sending states and Russia such as economic instability, dependence on external prosperity, frauds and exploitation, intolerance and xenophobia and threats for a consistency of families in Central Asia. As a conclusion appears a statement on insufficiency of current Russian legislative solutions and the new ones are proposed.