Anatoly Nesmiyan - about the problems of assimilation

Publicist Anatoly Nesmiyan comments on the news about the creation of residential areas for migrants in the Moscow suburbs:

“Such a town already exists in Moscow - this is the same Sadovod market. No laws apply within it, except those established by the native “diasporas”. In fact, this is an extraterritorial area, outside of which the police can do something, but inside - only if they are in the “lying with their faces on the floor, riot police are working” mode.

Now it is proposed to spread this useful experience further, creating entire favelas around Moscow. Where everything will be determined and decided by local bosses, from whom permission will first be sought.

<…> In a developing country, the task of civilizing the outskirts is solved in a fundamentally different way: industry is brought there, personnel are recruited there and they work there. The outskirts themselves are gradually moving from the traditional phase of development to the industrial one, and only then the residents of the periphery, already understanding what city life is, move to the central regions, not in entire blocks and regions, but one by one, dissolving into the indigenous population and assimilating with it. <…>

In a deteriorating economy, in which, due to accelerating backwardness, the labor shortage is growing sharply, such a scheme does not work. And what we see today is working - a massive influx of people who live in a traditional way of life, and therefore are fundamentally incapable of the process of integration into our society. A heterogeneous environment arises where the aliens’ habitats are encapsulated and isolated from external conditions. Accordingly, no integration or assimilation can occur. <…>

The Russian government not only created the conditions for the emergence of this tumor, it feeds it with decisions to create “Kyrgyz”, “Uzbek”, “Tajik” towns, which only aggravates the problem.”