Intensity of the Kaliningrad Region’s Migration Links with Russian Territories and Former Soviet Republics in 1992-2013

Abstract

Article addresses changes in the Kaliningrad region’s migration links with Russian territories and former Soviet republics in 1992-2013. An assessment is based on calculating the coefficient of migration link intensity (CMLI). Necessary information is derived from the Kaliningrad statistic service’s annual data on regional migration inflow and outflow by source and target territory since 1992. Principal migration areas are identified through analysing migration links of high and increased intensity. An analysis of the location and development of principal areas of regional incoming and outgoing migration shows that two new principal areas emerged in former Soviet republics – in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia – in the 1990-2000s. These areas play an important role in the formation of both migration inflows and outflows. The Baltics – once a principal migration area – has changed its profile from a migrant ‘supplier’ to ‘consumer’. At the same period the interregional links with Russian regions were characterized by both levelling the intensity of migration links and creation of new migratory attractive zones: the territory of West Siberian economic region as an inflow zone, and Krasnodar territory and Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous area as outflow zones.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s7p181