Problems of the Formation and Development of Diaspora Business in the Regions of Western Siberia
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International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues ISSN: 2146-4138 available at http: www.econjournals.com International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2015, 5(Special Issue) 287-291. Economics and Society in the Era of Technological Changes and Globalization Problems of the Formation and Development of Diaspora Business in the Regions of Western Siberia Sergey Gennadievich Simonov1*, Makka Alaudinovna Khamatkhanova2, Igor Vyacheslavovich Lysenko3 1Tymen State Oil and Gas University, 38 Volodarskogo, Tyumen Region, 625000 Tyumen, Russia, 2Tymen State Oil and Gas University, 38 Volodarskogo, Tyumen Region, 625000 Tyumen, Russia, 3Tymen State Oil and Gas University, 38 Volodarskogo, Tyumen Region, 625000 Tyumen, Russia. *Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Using the example of the Tyumen region, the experience of inter-ethnic interaction, formation and development of diaspora business is summed up. The results of the social research, conducted in 2013-2015 within the framework of the scientific community “The Social Responsibility of Business” on the basis of the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University are presented. The representatives of the regional public service and ethnic business took part in the research. Keywords: Ethnos, Ethnic Community, Diaspora, Inter-ethnic Interaction, Diaspora Business JEL Classifications: M38, M21, R11, R58 1. INTRODUCTION and interviewing, etc.). The above methods, first of all, involved over 200 people representing the Azerbaijani, Georgian, Armenian, The ethnic communities comprise more than three quarters of Ingush, Chechen, Dagestanian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and all peoples living on the Earth. As an integral part of the global other diasporas and ethnic groups living in the South of Western community, they, together with other peoples, form the mankind Siberia. as some integrity, expressing the unity of the ethnic lifestyles diversity (Bernal and Knight, 1993). The interaction of ethnoses 3. DISCUSSION AND RESULTS forms a complex system of ethnic relations affecting all spheres of social life. Ensuring the cohabitation of different ethnoses within Our social research suggests that in such vital region of Western a single society and the stability of social development in it is a Siberia as Tyumen region, the motives for ethnic communities to particular challenge for multi-ethnic regions, which are in the vast maintain social stability are the following (Figure 1). They put majority of the world (Okamura, 1981). a certain drop in the living standards of the region population in the context of the ongoing economic crisis and Western sanctions 2. METHODOLOGY that affected not only Russia, but all countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU: Russia - Belarus - Kazakhstan - Armenia - To study the problems of inter-ethnic interaction, including the Kyrgyzstan), which affected the extent of effective demand of the process of the formation and development of diaspora business regional society for the products of “second tier” business (22.5%), as part of a major industrial region, we have used a variety of in the first place. These ethnic communities put the reduction of methods (method of analysis and synthesis, method of analogies, buyers’ interest in the products of regional manufacturers and statistical method, expert evaluation method, questionnaire survey the increasing volume of purchases of similar products, coming International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 5 • Special Issue • 2015 287 Simonov, et al.: Problems of the Formation and Development of Diaspora Business in the Regions of Western Siberia Figure 1: Motives for representatives of ethnic communities of the total population of 3.1 million people. The representatives of Tyumen region to maintain social stability in the region many ethnic communities take an active part in economic and socio-cultural development of the region. Some insight into the process of diasporas formation in the region is provided by the data presented in Table 1 (Simonov and Khamatkhanova, 2011). A high percentage of representatives of a number of ethnic communities that do not speak the native language are noteworthy. Also a low level of employment in some diasporas of the studied region is of concern. The first diasporas (Polish and Korean) in the Tyumen region were registered in 1993. As we can see, they began to organize among the external migrants, which is determined by internal and external factors, as the geographical distance from the historical homeland contributes to the development of more heightened feeling of ethnic identity and memory about the historical past of the State - the outcome. An external factor of diasporality is the awakening interest and support from the historical homeland, recognition of the significance of diaspora for lobbying public interest, because the diaspora is not only a socio-cultural phenomenon, but also a political and economic tool (Cohen, 1997). Diasporas of internal migrants (Armenian and Azerbaijani) started from near and far abroad (18.0%), in the second place. The third to function actively from 1995-1997. By this time the main flow of motive in the rank of importance the respondents considered the migrants of these ethnic groups had stopped, the goals of a separate devaluation of the national currency resulting in higher prices representative had formed and the prospects of the community for import raw materials and import goods and services overall had designated. The link mechanism of all representatives of any (15.2%). The greater capital diversification of the EEU member ethnic community different in education, age, objects of arrival, countries, in particular, Kazakhstan, to Russia from the border gender was found. The basic material became cultural values, regions (North Kazakhstan Region, Kostanay Region, East traditions of the ethnos, skills and abilities, areas of employment, Kazakhstan and Pavlodar Regions), contributing to the risk of entrepreneurial skills, etc. absorption of domestic business structures (11.8%), was put in the fourth place. Formalization and realization of the legal aspect of this process began in 1990, and in 1997 a new public body - the Coordinating In the fifth and sixth places the respondents put the weak, in their Council, uniting all the national public associations and national opinion, assistance of the public authorities to attract investment cultural autonomies on a voluntary basis - was founded with the in the regional business sector (10.5%) and lack of their support assistance of regional authorities. The State was interested in the for innovative activity of the latter one, providing the formation preservation and development of ethno-cultural peculiarities of of new market segments in high-tech industries in the region the peoples living in the Russian Federation, and the adoption (8.6%). Next, in descending order of importance, such motives of the Federal Law “On National Cultural Autonomy” in 1996 as the immature legal environment of business functioning within provided the impetus to create the national cultural autonomies the EEU (5.4%), unfinished creation of institutional mechanisms and national public associations in the region. First Congress for the protection of property of subjects of the Russian business of the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia, which was held in (4.1%) and the growth of information espionage and poaching April 1999 and adopted a resolution on the organization of the of highly qualified personnel by competing firms (3.9%) follow. House of Peoples of Russia in Moscow and its branches in the regions of the Russian Federation, was of great importance for The aggravation of social tension in some regions of Russia the implementation of the state national policy in the country necessitates the study of inter-ethnic interaction in general and (Simonov and Khamatkhanova, 2007). diaspora business as its important part. In this regard, we’ve studied the contemporary situation in lifestyles of the Tyumen The representatives of ethnic groups needed the organization and region diasporas and identified the social and economic potential functioning of cultural-national centres, as a body dealing with of their representatives. the unity and support of representatives of various diasporas. In 2001 the regional Palace of National Cultures “The Builder,” The Tyumen region is a complicated structure subject of the which consisted of 11 departments, each of which represented its Russian Federation, inhabited by more than 125 nations of the ethnos, was established in Tyumen. The program “Main directions 288 International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 5 • Special Issue • 2015 Simonov, et al.: Problems of the Formation and Development of Diaspora Business in the Regions of Western Siberia Table 1: Ethnic communities of the Tyumen region Ethnic communities Total, Percentage Including ones speaking native language Of the total Percentage people of the total Of their Percentage Speaking Percentage population of diasporas population nationality of diasporas other language of diasporas employed population Caucasian diasporas 104,957 3.3 73,270 69.8 30,213 28.8 42,400 40.4 Non-caucasian diasporas 45,387 1.5 33,338 73.5 11,203 24.7 17,739 39 Local population 2,790,217 88 2,547,681 91.3 235,740 8.5 1,361,903 48.8 Other ethnic communities 180,680 5.7 65,869 36.5 114,136 63.2 101,212 56 Indigenous population 47,002 1.5 19,044 40.5 27,555 58.6 14,980 31.9 of the concept of preservation, revival and development