Adaptation of Forced Immigrants in Russia

immigrants from South-Eastern Ukraine in modern Russia, and the level of social protection.
THEORETICAL BASE: of the article is based on the theory of cross-cultural adaptation (Y.
Y. Kim); transformed concepts of acculturation ( J. N. Pieterse), focusing on the multiculturalism
of modern societies, and the concept of preserving one’s ethnic and social identity in crosscultural
communications (V. I. Mukomel). OUTCOMES: The needs of forced immigrants
and the problems of their adaptation, barriers and risks of interaction with the host community.
METHODS: the study used methods of legal document analysis, statistical and demographic
data, and conducted field study on the basis of the Internet survey of forced immigrants (N 268),
the method of case study and in-depth pre-standardization interviews (N 9), the expert survey
of specialists and managers of social organizations, providing for social protection and social
work with migrants and forced immigrants (N 12); verification of the author’s research has been
carried out on the basis of a research result secondary analysis of other authors. SOCIAL WORK
IMPLICATIONS: The obtained results in social services to change the nature and conditions of
their professional activities for the adaptation of forced immigrants.