World and national experience in government regulation of foreign labor force

The article includes a generalized description of the approaches and methods in state regulation of the processes of attracting foreign labor force, that implemented by developed countries. The author identifies a number of objective factors causing the necessity for active government intervention in migration process, examines tasks and system of functional elements in the process of migration management in developed countries. The article also reflects special features of Russian national experience of state regulation of external labor migration in the 1990s and 2000s