On-line session. The ‘Migration seminar’. Nadezhda Zamyatina, Leading Researcher at the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University Lomonosov, Ruslan Goncharov, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Urban and Regional Development of the A.A. Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, Higher School of Economics, "Arctic migrations"

On December 22, 2020 an on-line session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" organized by the Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy was held 

The presentation is devoted to the specifities of migration flows between the South and North of Russia. The Arctic is a region with a high migration mobility of the population.

The Russian Arctic is more “urban”, so the migration situation here is different. There is a widespread belief that people come to the Arctic when they are young and leave when they are older. However, upon closer examination, the situation is much more complex and resembles "distributed" life than clear migration flows.

The Arctic is intensively exchanging migrants with a limited set of territories associated with the Arctic partner-territories by a whole network of social and organizational factors that facilitate migration and other interactions. In fact, we are dealing with an agglomeration effect, but not in one place, as is usual, but in space: a specific “agglomeration of flows” is obtained.