Multinational Moscow: A Look at the Street VS Statistics
Varvara A. Sazhina
Ph.D., senior lecturer, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail:Sazhina@spa.msu.ru
The article is devoted to modern national structure of the population of Moscow. The author focuses on perceptions and relationships of the resident population of the city to this structure. It is shown that the local people have a distorted sustainable view of national and ethnic composition of the population of Moscow, but it is not supported by real statistics data. The article deals with the causes (such as: specificity of employment, level and the need for Russian language, social interaction, etc.) and consequences of such a perception. Special attention is paid to the integration of migrants, especially to the so-called “visible minorities”.
Keywords
National structure, interethnic relations, migration, capital metropolitan area, visible minorities, the integration of migrants, ethnic and cultural transformation.