Rakhmonov A.Kh. The theoretical concept of organized migration: rewiew of scholary approaches. Labor and social relation. 2026. Vol. 37. No. 3. Pp. 7-16.

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Abstract

This article examines the theoretical concept of organized migration through a critical review of classical, Soviet, post-Soviet, and contemporary international approaches. The study aims to clarify the conceptual boundaries of organized migration and to identify the main analytical dimensions through which it has been interpreted in migration scholarship. The article is based on a comparative analysis of the works of Russian and foreign authors who examine migration as a regulated, institutionally mediated, and policy-oriented process. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the concept from the Soviet model of centrally planned labor redistribution to modern interpretations associated with managed migration, legal mobility channels, and migration governance. The analysis demonstrates that organized migration has gradually expanded from a narrow administrative category into a broader theoretical construct. In Soviet research, it was primarily associated with state-directed labor mobilization, territorial development, and planned economic objectives. In post-Soviet literature, the concept was reformulated in the context of external labor migration and demographic decline, emphasizing legal recruitment mechanisms, intermediary institutions, and labor market regulation. In international scholarship, organized migration is increasingly understood as a form of safe, orderly, and institutionally coordinated mobility embedded in systems of interstate cooperation, formal recruitment, and migrant protection. The article argues that organized migration should be conceptualized as an institutionally structured regime of mobility in which the recruitment, movement, employment, adaptation, and possible return of migrants are governed by formal rules and coordinated actors.