Mishunina, A.A., Gerb, R.V. On the practice of the local municipal bodies on normative legal regulation of the issues of social, cultural and economic adaptation of the foreign citizens

Abstract: Based upon the analysis of the regional legislation and municipal legal acts the author views the main provisions within the sphere of competence of municipal self-government on cooperation with the voluntary movement to the Russian Federation of the compatriots residing abroad, on legal regulation of the social and cultural adaptation of the foreign citizens in the accepting community of municipal units. The author studies the practice of implementation of programs on cooperation for the voluntary movement of compatriots residing abroad to the Russian Federation, making proposals for making them more efficient. The methodology of studies is formed by the complex of general scientific study methods, as well as comparative legal studies, sociological studies, normative and technical legal analysis, other scientific means, allowing to reveal the main patterns in the development of the practice of the local self-government bodies on normative legal regulation of the issues of social, cultural and economic adaptation of foreign citizens. In the process of achieving research goals the author used empiric and theoretical methods. The empiric methods include studies and generalization of the law-making experience, reports of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation and its territorial divisions, the government bodies of the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal bodies regarding participation in the implementation of the State Program on Support for the Voluntary Migration to the Russian Federation of the Compatriots Residing Abroad. Among the theoretical methods the study employed analysis, generalization and comparative legal method. The scientific novelty of the study and its conclusions are as follows. Firstly, it is in a complex generalization of the practice of the government bodies of the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal bodies on normative legal regulation of the issues of social, cultural and economic adaptation of the foreign citizens. Secondly, it is in the development and substantiations of the recommendations of the author on the further improvement of the work of the municipal self-government bodies in the sphere of relations among the nations.

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