The article analyzes the labor migration of immigrants from Central Asian countries to the Angara region. According to experts, labor migration flows from the former Soviet republics covered more than 10 million people. The Russian Federation has become the main center of attraction for migrant workers from neighboring countries, and internal labor migration has also increased, the scale of which is comparable to labor migration from CIS countries to Russia. The massive forced displacement of people from Central Asia to the Irkutsk region caused many problems. Difficulties were associated not only with housing, employment, and acclimatization but also with the ethnocultural adaptation of migrants in a new and largely unfamiliar sociocultural environment. Their integration with the local population in the Angara region took place. The activities of the Uzbek and Tajik communities, the engagement of their leaders, and the established structures controlling the flow of labor migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan—recruiting potential migrants in the regions of origin, assisting them in finding housing, work, registration, and work permits, and facilitating money transfers to their homeland—are indicators demonstrating the economic liquidity of ethnic networks.
labor migrants, migrant workers, internally displaced persons, immigrants from Central Asia