Transnational Aspects of the Household Economics of Labor Migrants from Central Asia in Russia
The article is based on the comparative study of migrants living in Russia as well as their families in Cen-tral Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan). The author proposes to consider economic practice of migrants broader than just money transfers; repro-duction of human capital, formation of supply and demand, exchange of things and ideas should also be taken into con-sideration. Four basic types of the family engagement in migration (i. e. types of organization of household economics) based on the income and expenditure analysis are singled out: «family couples», «single women» (married or divorced), «single man/woman», and «married man». The study is focused on transnational migrant household as a unit of econom-ic activity analysis which helps under-standing the strategies of integration of migrants and, in some cases, the nature of international migration.