Kirill Martynov: "Migrants are not interested in successful adaptation to life in Moscow"

“At one student discussion, the girl said that most of the crimes in Russia (in Moscow?) Committed migrants. Then we left the hall, and I put in the explanation that it was wrong with this design,” writes the observer and teacher of the Higher School of Economics on his Facebook page.

"Statistics shows the opposite, even though the police are profitable to increase openness at the expense of migrants. In the sample of poor young men, most likely there is no statistically significant difference among the crimes committed depending on ethnic origin. From a utilitarian point of view, the Russian economy is more than a decade on the trim of cheap labor, that we feel on ourselves every day, receiving, getting on our Cheap taxis, work of waiters, cleaners, janitors and builders.

The problem of aggressive behavior of migrants expressing signs of attention to girls exists, but is no different from the problem of similar behavior of young men who came to large cities from the hinterland. This is the problem of adaptation of a large number of people to city life, and not the signs of a "vicious alien culture."

At a recent, other student discussion, another girl came up to me and said: did you tell my girlfriend that migrants were not to blame for the fact that they commit crimes and behave inadequately? I again went into explanations, and we agreed that the problem in bad social elevators - migrants are not interested in successful adaptation to life in Moscow, because the level of racism and corruption is such that they, together with children, can also be considered strangers in decades.

And along the way, I came up with an analogy. In the summer, at the discussion about the social rating in China, Alexander Bikbov noted that this rating with approval will be accepted by citizens of the country, because as a result of the monstrous pace of urbanization, Chinese society lives in the conditions of total distrust, in the new millionaires, not to mention the capitals, no one knows each other, and none of the yesterday’s village residents are used to. The influx of rural inhabitants to the cities is similar to the situation with migrants in Russia, although they look “all of them from Moscow” from Moscow, but the Kyrgyz is very different from us - this racist knows.

A social rating is a totalitarian and digital method of accelerated adaptation of society to accept new rules of life, when you always know how to evaluate a stranger with whom you are going to conduct business. In our experience, the analogue is in taxi drivers' ratings, most of which are migrants in Moscow (by the way, these ratings now seem to have tried to hide somewhat from the application interface - it seems that they were too repressive).

Most likely, in Russia, many would be delighted if German Gref and Yandex distributed a social rating from taxi drivers and food delivery to all migrants. And we would build our little Xinjiang Autonomous District right inside Moscow. "