Sociocultural aspects of contemporary migration: specifics and prospects of sociological researches
The paper discusses sociocultural aspects of migration in the conditions of contemporary public changes. Researches of migration processes in a foreign and domestic sociological thought are analyzed. It is concluded that it is necessary to address personal cultural models of movements, peculiar to migrants. As a theoretical hypothesis, the author offers models of "outcome", "escape", "emancipation", "development", and "return" which assume various internal subjective purposes and models of social behavior during migration processes.