CONFERENCEMigration Research Experience in Soviet Latvia
Parsla Eglite
DOI: 10.22364/fg.16.14
Keywords: immigration, age composition of migrants, demographic consequences of migration, political censorship
Abstract
This article focuses on the peculiarities of migration and its research possibilities during the Soviet era, when Latvia experienced massive immigration mainly from regions of Russia and Belarus that were in close proximity. That led to distortion of population age composition both in the places of origin and in the new places of residence. As a result there was excessive aging, which occurred sooner in the places of origin, and later in the new places of residence. To constrain the effects of ongoing soviet policy, the availability of data was limited, but prepared publications were politically censored.