Dynamics of the largest regional diasporas, as an indicator of the ethnic and demographic evolution of the population of the Rostov region

Abstract

Dynamics of the largest regional diasporas, as an indicator of the ethnic and demographic evolution of the population of the Rostov region

Suschiy S.Y. , Tumakova Zh.A. , Ivanov A.V., Androsova S.V.

Incoming article date: 13.10.2014

The article analyzes the population dynamics, habitat settlement in the Rostov region of Ukrainians and Armenians, representing two major regional diaspora. We study their complex demographic and spatial relationship in the post-war decades, and in the post-Soviet period. The reasons rapidly declining regional Ukrainian community in the late twentieth century - beginning of the XXI century. Predicted the most likely scenario, the demographic dynamics of the two diasporas in the coming decades, examines the role in this process of modern Ukrainian crisis caused by the influx within the scope of large numbers of refugees.

Keywords: Ukrainians and Armenians, regional communities, and the number of resettlement, ethno-cultural structure of the Diaspora