Migration and Security in Northeast Asia: Political Aspects

Abstract

The subject of this study is processes of migration and how these relate tonational, regional and international security: 1. A consideration of threatsto the security of the Russian Far East in connection with external andinternal migration. 2. Similar processes in the countries of the NortheastAsia region and their influence on the state of regional security as awhole. The purpose of the work is to analyze the above-mentionedphenomenon in Northeast Asia, as well as the impact of migrationprocesses on regional security. Comparative and historical approachesare used in the research. These approaches made it possible to analyzethe particularities of shaping the “agenda” of regional security in NEA and,in particular, in matters of migration. In addition, they facilitate an analysisof how national approaches to ensuring security in the region and threatsin the field of migration (in parallel with them) have changed. While thereis a sufficiently large number of studies on migration in general, there iscurrently no work in Russian political science that deals with the problemsof migration in Northeast Asia in the context of regional and internationalsecurity. Migration is a real, not a potential, security threat.