How Chinese Agricultural Immigrants Affect Farmers in the Russian Far East

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. T...

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Published inThe American journal of economics and sociology Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 1387 - 1415
Main Authors Yi, Fujin, Gudaj, Richard T., Arefieva, Valeria, Mishchuk, Svetlana, Potenko, Tatiana A., Yanbykh, Renata, Zhou, Jiayi, Zuenko, Ivan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2020
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Agricultural industry
Agriculture
Asian cultural groups
Competitors
Farmers
Farmworkers
Foreign exchange
Households
Immigrants
International economic relations
Labor shortages
Labor supply
Residents
Vegetables
Zambia
Asia
Laos
China
Sub-Saharan Africa
Russia
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0002-9246
1536-7150
DOI:10.1111/ajes.12361