[verroq]

Migrant workers, not migrant refugees. These are people who comes from poor rural communities in search of better jobs and future, not opportunistic economic migrants who come to take advantage of an European welfare state.

Also note that without a hukou they receive limited education and government services. This prevents them from settling in the cities they work in.

[hutzlibu]

Have you ever actually spoken to one of those "opportunistic economic migrants" who apparently don't like the bad economic situation of places like syria, anymore?

[krisdol]

Many people fleeing Syria are not economic migrants, I'd say.

[hutzlibu]

Really? How insightful.. someone tell OP?

[walshemj]

And not poor peasants in the main its the middle class who can afford to pay to be smuggled.

[mchaver]

There are also certain obstacles related to internal migration in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement#Russia

[fucking_tragedy]

How do you sort out people who comes from poor rural communities in search of better jobs and future from the opportunistic economic migrants who come to take advantage of an European welfare state?

Religion? Ethnicity? Country of origin?