The Migration Crisis in Ukraine: Assessment of the Major Tendencies and Effects

The article characterizes the current status of the international migration processes from 1991 to 2016, allocates the main «waves» of labor migration during the period of independence of Ukraine, highlights the main positive and negative features of migration, its impact on the socio-economic security of the national economy has been assessed. The main indicators of the migratory movements of population in the regions of Ukraine have been analyzed and priority directions for the improvement of migration policies have been developed. On the basis of statistics it has been proven that the problem of emigration of the labor potential of the nation is the most relevant in Ukraine nowadays. In assessing the main indicators of the population’s migratory movements by regions of Ukraine, the author has concluded that there are disparities in their socio-economic development, which provides to characterize the State regional policy in this sphere as insufficiently efficient. Thus, without the proper intervention on the part of the central authorities of the country’s legislative and executive powers, the market mechanisms for counteracting the unregulated labor migration by themselves are not in a position to prevent the territorial differences in the development of countries