Youth migration in the montane Levashinsky district of Dagestan
https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0579-9414.5.79.2.12
Abstract
The article discusses local features of the migration behavior of rural youth based on the results of an expedition survey of a mountainous rural district of Dagestan. Among the sources of information were official and school statistics and the results of interviews with the local population. There is a significant post-Soviet population growth in the Levashinsky district, among other things, due to the low emigration of the rural population. It was found that a significant part of young people remain in rural areas. The reasons are the presence of relatively profitable places of employment in the agricultural sector, trade and other economic activities. The most common variants of migration behavior of rural youth are: “Studied until grade 9, and stayed in the village to work”, and “Studied until grade 9/11, and left for work”, while the least common is: “Studied until grade 11, went to study and returned”. The migration behavior of rural youth in the district differs both from Russia as a whole and the region, and for particular settlements. The differences in migration attitudes of the surveyed rural communities are described for four villages of the Levashinsky district, i.e. Levashi, Kutish, Naskent and Ulluaya. It was found that each local settlement community of the Levashinsky district has its own specifics of migration situation, which, for example, is not directly related to the ethnic structure of the population.
Keywords
rural areas,
rural communities,
educational migration,
ethnic structure of the population,
mountainous territories
Supporting agencies: The study was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 24-17-00107). The authors express their gratitude to Magomedov Askhab Alievich and to Khalalmagomedov Mukhtar Abdulayevich, the head of the Levashinsky district administration of the Dagestan Republic, for their help in organizing the field part of the study
About the Authors
L. R. Imangulov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Post-graduate student
Faculty of Geography; Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia
Moscow
D. А. Koryuhin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Master
Faculty of Geography; Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia
Moscow
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Imangulov L.R., Koryuhin D.А. Youth migration in the montane Levashinsky district of Dagestan. Lomonosov Geography Journal. 2024;(2):146-153. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0579-9414.5.79.2.12
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