Legal Support for Foreign Labor Migration in the Russian Federation and the UAE: A Comparative Aspect

Purpose of the study. The purpose of the article is to analyze the legal support of external labor migration in the Russian Federation (RF) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as fundamentally different systems for regulating migration processes and ensuring the rights of migrants in a comparative aspect. The features of the legal support of external labor migration in the UAE, as well as the regulatory framework for the provision of external labor migration in the Russian Federation are analyzed. It was determined that the system of legal support for external labor migration existing in the UAE is unique, “archaic” in its essence and “discriminatory” against migrants in its content, which is the result of a synthesis of the traditions of “Muslim law” and a modern approach to the legal regulation of migration processes. The legislative framework of the UAE has been analyzed, which has confirmed this conclusion. The attractive aspects of the legislation of the Arab Emirates are noted at the level of its individual elements with a general critical assessment of this system of legal support for external labor migration. Output. It has been determined that due to fundamental differences in approaches to the regulation of migration processes between the Russian Federation and the UAE, we cannot talk about any significant implementation of the norms of Arab legislation in the practice of legal regulation of migration in Russia. At the same time, some norms of the UAE legislation can be taken as the basis for improving the Russian migration law. The article provides a number of recommendations regarding the use of these norms, which creates the preconditions for more effective control of migration, as well as for ensuring the interests of the Russian state in the migration sphere.

principle, selective migration, labor force, differentiation, qualifications, law, social protection