About the need to improve the administrative legal mechanisms of social and cultural adaptation and integration of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The subject of this research article is the analysis of modern approaches to understanding the phenomenon of adaptation and integration of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation, description of foreign integration models, consideration of the process of formation and development of the state system of management of adaptation and integration of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation, as well as modern views the Russian legislator on the regulation of these issues. Today in the Russian Federation there is no formed system of state regulation of the adaptation and integration processes of foreign citizens, as a set of subjects with the necessary powers in this area of public relations, endowed with clearly formulated rights and responsibilities, the procedure and sources of the necessary funding for this activity are not fixed. What is especially important, at the state level, the principles have not been declared, that is, the main ideas of the functioning of the institution of adaptation and integration of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation. Allthisreducestheeffectivenessofthefull-fledgedimplementationofthedomesticmigrationpolicyas a whole. At present, the developers of the Draft Federal Law "On the Conditions of Entry (Exit) and Stay (Residence) in the Russian Federation of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons" in the section "General Provisions of Social and Cultural Adaptation and Integration of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation" regulation in the declared sphere of public administration, however, the analysis of the provisions of the draft law makes it possible to judge its “framework” nature, which does not allow giving answers to the existing problematic questions. As a hypothesis of the study, the authors put forward a provision on the existing systemic problem in the legal regulation of the process of foreign citizens entering the Russian society, which must be resolved in the shortest possible time by improving the administrative and legal mechanisms for the implementation of this activity. The research methodology includes a critical analysis of the current regulation of the inclusion of foreign citizens in the Russian society, as well as historical-legal and comparative-legal methods used to study the genesis of the problem and identify general trends in its solution in the world.