Labor Migrants from Uzbekistan in Primorye: Power - Migrants - Host Community (the Early 21<sup>st</sup> Century)
The article analyzes the factors of the formation of the Uzbek labor flow in Russia at the beginning of the XXI century, the special features of the stay of citizens from Uzbekistan on the border areas - in the Primorsky Krai. The historical process is disclosed on the basis of the methodology of social history, in particular, in the format of the theory of social transformation. The main research question is the identification of the relationship between migration policy, changes in the scale of labor migration and communications in a society at the stage of social transformation. This stage is regarded as a Trauma Society. Changes in the migration flow and communicative practices of staying citizens from Uzbekistan in the Primorsky Krai are analyzed in the system “power - migrants - host community”. As a result of the study, it was proved that in the early 21 century, labor migrants from Uzbekistan were one of the sources of creating a new class “precariat” in the region. The article concludes that the solution by politicians of the problem of labor shortages by attracting foreign labor migration strengthened the state of “social trauma” in the Far Eastern society. Communication practices were not sufficient to prevent conflicts between the host community and labor migrants, although during the researched period, the conflicts were latent.