System approach to analysis of the essence of migration processes

Abstract

The growth of professional qualification and educational level with the accumulation of work experience requires a deep understanding and research of the cause-and-effect relationships of labour migration, a deep scientific analysis of current trends, identification of advantages and potential threats to the country, and the development of a developed national labour migration policy. The purpose of the paper is a theoretical analysis of the essence of migration processes as a complex system of social order. The paper uses system and theoretical methods. It was determined that the research of labour migration processes, with a few exceptions, is at an initial stage: many methodological and organisational aspects of their regulation are not properly disclosed, they lack a deep scientific understanding of the essence of migration processes as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. The paper attempts to identify the epistemological nature and essence of the migration process as a complex system of social order. Special attention is paid to the analysis of its system-forming components, which are in causal relationships and ensure its integrity, which is important for the development of an organisational and economic mechanism for regulating labour migration processes. During the study, it was established that the migration process as a complex system includes a number of interrelated stages – migration environment, migration situation, migration behaviour, migration movement, that is, mobility and adaptation of labour migrants. The paper focuses on the analysis of the initial, basic stage of the migration process – the migration environment, which determines the migration situation, under the influence of which migration behaviour is formed, and then migration mobility and the intensity of labour movements. Such an understanding of the essence of migration processes is important for the practice of regulating migration processes and the development of an organisational and economic mechanism for regulating labour movements. The analysis of each of the selected stages allows ensuring systematic and comprehensive management of labour migration processes, to increase the effectiveness of the national migration policy

Keywords

• migration process
• stages of the migration process
• mechanism
• regulation