How Chinese Agricultural Immigrants Affect Farmers in the Russian Far East |
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| Authors: | Fujin Yi Richard T Gudaj Valeria Arefieva Svetlana Mishchuk Tatiana A Potenko Renata Yanbykh Jiayi Zhou Ivan Zuenko |
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| Institution: | 1. China Center for Food Security Studies and College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China;2. College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China;3. Institute for Agrarian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;4. Institute for Demographic Research FCTAS RAS (IDR FCTAS RAS), Moscow, Russia;5. Department of Economics and Organization of Agri Industrial Complex, Federal Research Center of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East named after A. K. Chaiki, Ussuriysk, Russia;6. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden;7. Chinese Studies Department, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of Far East, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia |
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| Abstract: | China’s international position as a net creditor nation provides it with foreign exchange that it has invested in Asian and African countries. One example is China's investment in the Russian Far East (RFE). Thousands of Chinese agricultural workers have migrated to the RFE in recent decades. They are often welcomed by Russian farmers who face a labor shortage and by local residents who can buy cheap vegetables from them, but there are others who resent their presence in the region as competitors. Our study is the first empirical study of this relationship. Our results demonstrate economic benefits to the Russian households. There are, however, some negative repercussions of Chinese farmers in the RFE, and the governments of both China and Russia need to manage the situation wisely. |
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