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CARIM-East: Creating an Observatory of Migration East of Europe ; Version in other language: Migration Policy Centre ; CARIM-East Research Report ; 2013/38 ; Policy in the field of migrants' integration is a relatively new task for practically all CARIM-East countries. Integration has an impact upon demography, including the composition and structure of the country's population, namely gender ratio, mortality, marriage structure, birth rate, ageing etc. While integrating into society migrants become a part of the same, which affects the demographic security of the recipient country. As was noted above, integration is a twofold process, i.e. it is linked both to the adaptation of migrants and the adaptation of the recipient society [16]. If one takes Russia as an example of a recipient country, then, in the first half of the 1990s, its actions were primarily directed towards assistance to refugees and forced migrants from the former USSR republics, most of whom were ethnic Russians in need of economic, social and household integration: assistance in getting housing, jobs, and legal status. In the late 1990s and the early 2000s the situation changed: forced migration gradually gave way to large-scale labor migration from practically all CIS countries and this, of course, required a drastic change in policy. The absence of migrants' integration policy increases their social exclusion and segregation. This absence make them vulnerable to different forms of rights violations, labor and other types of exploitation, even extreme forms of violence, such as forced labor and human trafficking: all of these, it should be noted, are to be found in CARIM-East countries. ; CARIM-East is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union.

The article considers the social network space of public communications as an field for the interaction of various groups of stakeholders who are ready to decide and act in the interests of society. At the theoretical level, the authors reveal the importance and prospects of organizing the interaction of stakeholders in social media to solve socially significant problems, and as well as in practice they present the results of an expert survey, within the framework of which it was possible to identify various groups of stakeholders of the public administration system, see the differentiation of their interests, the relationship built between them, their role in the process of interaction in social media, and obstacles to this interaction. Among the important results of an expert survey the authors note the opinion that social media contribute to the self-organization of stakeholders in solving problems affecting the local community; help to hold officials accountable, perhaps because of the possibility of criticism of their activities in the social network public space; informing stakeholders with feedback elements make the dominant way to interact. The authors conclude that despite attempts to combine the efforts of stakeholders in the socio-network space, it is impossible to fully identify their subjectivity. There also remains the problem of organizing the moderation of community consolidation processes in solving socially significant problems, since at present there are no full-fledged mechanisms for the interaction of power and society both when identifying social problems and in the process of developing and implementing management decisions.