Rakhmonov A.Kh. Adaptation and integration of migrants from Tajikistan in the labor market and in  host societies: the case of Germany, Japan, Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom. Bulletin of the Academy. 2025. No. 1. Pp. 62–75. DOI: https: ...

Abstract

The article examines the role of cultural adaptation as the main elements of adaptation and integration of  migrant workers in host societies, the reasons for the departure of Tajik migrants from the Russian labor market in foreign  countries, the scale and trends of emigration from Tajikistan to Germany, Japan, Korea, as well as to the United States and  Great Britain (GJKUU). As well as strategies for the adaptation of Tajik migrants to the labor market in GJKUU countries.  The main channels of Tajik emigration in the GJKUU countries were educational emigration. Most of the highly skilled  migrants from Tajikistan migrated to the GJKUU countries: many of them came there as students, and then moved into the  category of labor migrants. But in recent years, new emigration channels have been opened in GJKUU countries for lowskilled Tajik citizens. The first of these countries were the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea. Tajikistan has signed  an employment agreement with the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea on attracting Tajik migrants to seasonal  migration in these countries. Every year, the UK allocates 40,000 quotas for migrants from Central Asian countries for  seasonal migration. This trend means that the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea have begun to actively compete  for the labor resource of Central Asia with Russia, where Central Asian labor migrants mainly migrate. The active policy of  the GJKUU countries to attract Tajik labor migrants in the future will lead to the loss of part of Russia’s migration potential.  As in the Russian labor market, labor migrants from Tajikistan account for almost half of the total number of foreign  migrants. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of adaptation of migrants from Tajikistan in the labor market  of the GJKUU country, as well as the role of cultural adaptation in the integration of migrants in host societies.