Immigration Models in the EU and Russia: Growth in the Paradigm of Constraints

The author offers a methodology of estimations and carries out a comparative analysis of the immigration models of the EU countries and Russia. The contents of the global trends in the population movement along the migration verticals from south to north and along the migration horizontals from east to west have been substantiated and disclosed. The material modern interpretation of E. Ravenstein's economic laws of migration, M. Piore's dual labor market, neoclassical theory, E. Lee's pull and pull factors; characteristics and definitions of immigration models; imperatives and regulators of population movement within international unions; migration paradigm shifts, "zero tolerance" policy and Brexit causes; oil prices, Western sanctions and reduced migration to Russia, etc. This paper may be of interest academic economists, sociologists who study the contemporary phenomenon of growing migration in the context of deepening global inequality; a wide range of readers interested in social and economic problems within the social contract; corporate researchers of human capital. The material can be used as a textbook for the preparation of a course on population migration.