Adaptation of Labor Migrants from Uzbekistan in Russia: Institutional Barriers and «Cultural Shock» Overcoming

This article presents a comprehensive political science and sociological analysis of the adaptation and integration of labor migrants from the Republic of Uzbekistan into host Russian society. It pays particular attention to the theoretical and methodological conceptualization of the «cultural shock» phenomenon migrants experience, as well as to institutional, linguistic, and socio-everyday barriers they encounter amid the changing legal environment and migration policy of the Russian Federation. Key trends in the transformation of integration strategies are also discussed.