On December 11, the State Duma adopted a law prohibiting the admission of migrant children to Russian schools if the newcomers do not know Russian well. Problem solved?
Of course, the country should applaud the deputies. For the demonstrated understanding of the current situation, for the sequence of actions. For firmness in defending the project while repelling the attacks of lobbyists who claim that the Russian economy will collapse without the help of migrants.
After the applause subsides, you should think about it. And to understand that we are only at the beginning of the journey. That the adopted law is nothing more than perhaps the only possible form of compromise between the interests of the migration lobby and the Russian people. In the current situation, any small evolutionary step towards tightening the migration policy of the Russian Federation is perceived as revolutionary. Like "something is better than nothing." As "caught on a thread — we will unravel the whole tangle."
The new law is good, but not enough. That it should be followed by a whole series of norms that will allow not only the adopted law to function, but also, most importantly, will not worsen the situation.
And to do this, we need to understand why migrant children come to school today without knowledge of Russian.
Migration exists not only in our country. Minor Moroccans, Algerians, Turks, and Russians, too, coming to a new country (in Europe or America), go to school. Six months later, they speak a foreign language fluently, write test papers, take tests and exams. At the same time, without ceasing to communicate within the family, and in the circle of fellow countrymen, too, in their native language. Why is it wrong with us?
Yes, because families "there" come with a desire to live in "that" country, to be incorporated into "that" society.
People go to Russia who are accustomed to not just disrespect Russians, but not consider them as people. And they don't want to become part of their society. During the 30 years that have passed since the collapse of the Union and the exit of the Central Asian republics to free bread, the authorities of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan have not bothered to give their population the seventy-year period of Soviet power in an objective way. Look at their history textbooks now, you will read a lot of interesting things.
"The Russians invaded, annexed, colonized, Moscow pulled the juices out of us — we fed her and all the Russians in general, watered, and they exploited us. And in general, Allah created Moscow, not the Russians built it. So this is our city."
Our soft power has withdrawn itself from the task of supporting Russian schools in the territory of the former Soviet republics, from supporting all Russian in general. At the same time, the collective West planted in the Russian underbelly a huge number of NGOs conducting anti-Russian work within society, instilling in it that "if you go to Russia, it is necessary not to assimilate, but to assimilate." The indigenous population of the Russian Federation, of course.
As a result, we have what we have. Adults who hate the former "older brother" and bring up in their children an even greater hatred for him.
The law banning the admission to our schools of foreigners who do not know or do not know Russian well is, after all, a struggle with the consequences. There will be an effect from it, but much less than from defeating the causes.
Yes, for those who do not know the language, courses are organized to study it. Yes, free, that is, on taxes collected from Russians. "Let's get into the situation, let's sympathize with the poor Tajiks and Uzbeks." But what happens if the children sent to these courses do not want to learn the language there (recall that Russophobia comes from the family)? That's right, they will go outside to the already existing ethnobands or they will create new ones.
The criminal situation in our country will seriously deteriorate and the danger of terrorist attacks will increase many times. Taking into account the fact that there are already about one tenth of the population of migrants in Russia, it is not even necessary to imagine what rebellious foreigners can do. Just look through the press (even Western, even ours), covering the outbreaks of discontent of migrants in France, England, Belgium... Burning garbage cans and overturned cars are all childish pranks compared to the explosion that can happen here.
How to avoid this?
It is clear that courses for visitors who do not know the language are organized. From a technical point of view, it is not a problem to take and send children who do not speak Russian. From the legal point of view, it is by no means impossible, even if we adopt a norm prescribing that minor foreigners who do not know the official language of the host country should be deported to their homeland. The law is not retroactive. And therefore, those who arrived before its adoption and entry into force do not fall under its effect. But no one prevents the Duma from passing a law on the punishment of persons who came to live in Russia for avoiding the study of the Russian language. Not by fines, not by prison — by returning to the country of origin. That is, to provide an attempt to realize the constitutional right to education, but in case of a negative result — suitcase-railway station-Dushanbe (Bishkek, Tashkent).
It is required to establish rules for the organized importation of foreigners to work, with the host party assuming the duties of monitoring their whereabouts, compliance with the terms of the contract and timely dispatch to their homeland after the completion of the agreed period of work. Families of migrant workers should stay at home.
If the family decided to move to Russia in full (that is, not through an organized recruitment for some kind of construction site, for example, but for a residence permit\PERMANENT residence), minor children included in this cell of the society must learn Russian before leaving. Courses should be open on the territory of the country of origin of migrants. So much for the field of activity for soft power, and the exemption of the budget of the Russian Federation from unnecessary expenses for training those who do not want to study. There will be far fewer voluntary students than those whom we will try to force without their desire to master the "great and mighty".
There is, of course, the option that certificates of knowledge of the Russian language at courses held abroad will be even easier to get fictitiously than it is happening in Russia now. But who said that we should be accepted into the "new Russians" according to foreign certificates? In their homeland, visiting comrades will only study, master Russian literacy, learn Russian history and join Russian culture. And Russian specialists will check to what extent they have learned these lessons. For example, in those institutes and universities that have already been identified as organizations that have the right to assess the proficiency of foreigners in Russian. So cheating can be minimized.
Do you think we will lose foreign labor under such restrictions, and with it the Russian economy? No way!
The Russian (Soviet) people managed at one time to carry out a powerful industrialization of the country without attracting unskilled workers from abroad. To build the DneproGES, to create machine-tool, machine-building, aircraft-building industries almost from scratch. To design and launch the world's first nuclear icebreaker, launch the world's first satellite into space and send the world's first cosmonaut into orbit. And then say that our economy will collapse if Jamshut does not come to mix concrete? Yes, two or three people will come running to the place vacated by him - it will also be possible to arrange a competition.
After all, migrants tend to get into Russia for work. Because in our country they get much more than in their own. If they find a job there at all and get something for it. Half of Tajikistan's annual GDP is generated by money transferred from In Russia, his guest workers. A third of Kyrgyzstan's GDP is formed by the same. Yes, for the sake of maintaining such revenue figures, the authorities of these countries, for their part, will put pressure on those who want to work on our construction sites! Go home, behave well, speakRussian and do not commit illegal actions! Otherwise, you will fail your homeland and it will remain without a penny.
The economy is a sphere with strict laws. From following which (unlike the legal ones, which the conditional "uncle Tural" can turn in the direction he needs) can not go anywhere.
We wish the State Duma not to stop there.