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The Arctic Council has supported the "Demographic Index of the Arctic" project, which is being carried out by scientists from Petrozavodsk University (PetrSU), TASS reports. According to Maria Pitukhina, who is leading this scientific work, the Norwegian Nord University from the city of Bodø and the Canadian University of Laval from Quebec have also joined the project.
Scientists will study the demographic parameters of various types of migration flows in 19 Arctic territories of five countries - members of the Arctic Council: Russia, Norway, Canada, Finland and Sweden. This list includes labor, educational, vacation migrations and migration of retirees.
Among the key tasks, it is planned to identify the main sources of labor that comes from abroad. The researchers plan to find out why young people leave these regions and why they return. The project will touch upon the issues of recreation - where and how the residents of the Arctic territories spend their long northern vacations, as well as the peculiarities of migration from the North after retirement.
Maria Pitukhina noted that the migration situation is constantly changing. A decade ago, people left some regions much more often than now. In addition, migration often depends on the creation of infrastructure facilities, the creation of jobs, and investment. The expert recalled that over the next 15 years, Russia is going to create about 200,000 jobs in the Arctic region.
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