Abstract

International migration is becoming a powerful factor of forming the contours of the global economy and politics of the future. More and more attention is paid to non-economic effects of migration. It is clear that migration of nations is accompanied by some special consequences related to collision and diffusion of different cultures, religious and national traditions which destabilize host societies. In addition, migrants form migration networks that link them with the metropolis as well as with the original homeland. All these things turn the issue into political one. Migration processes in the globalized world are turning from a spontaneous process into a sphere of geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural management. For investigating this phenomenon it is necessary to create a special politological theory the objects of which can be migrant’s political consciousness and behavior in a definite historic-cultural and socio-economic environment that contribute to the formation of various societal-political structures and institutes. The objectives of the political science of migration should also include studying diffusion processes of political values, traditions and practices that result from the interaction between migrants and host societies. In fact, politology of migration as a scientific discipline is to examine the specifics of all socially important areas of society considering them in terms of political consequences of the migration process using general and specific methods of political science research.