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2026, no. 9
SOCIETY. SCIENCE. EDUCATION

SOCIOLOGICAL MODELING OF MIGRANTS’ ADAPTATION IN A HYBRID SPACE

Pavel P. DeriuginORCID, Olga V. KuznetsovaORCID, Olga M. AlekseevaORCID, Yang YuORCID

DOI 10.20339/am.09-26.084pp. 84–91UDC 316.480 RUB

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Abstract

The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing migration flows, where digital platforms and transnational networks are beginning to play an increasingly important role. The study includes a meta-review of scientific literature, which includes an analysis of 607 sources over the past five decades, an analysis of classical adaptation models, and the development of a typology of adaptation models consisting of three groups of models: models focused on the basic society (sub-ethnic, ethnic, hyper-ethnic, and supra-ethnic), models related to the host society (civil, national, assimilation, and cosmopolitan), and ‘mixed’ models (marginal, indifferent, diffuse, tolerant, bicultural, separatist, and hypo-ethnic). New trends in social adaptation have been identified, due to the processes of digitalization and the formation of a hybrid social space. The results obtained open up prospects for new research areas in the field of migration sociology, digital anthropology and management of multicultural communities.

Keywords

  • modeling
  • models of migration practices
  • classification of traditional models
  • models focused on the basic society
  • models focused on the hybrid society

Funding

Russian Science Foundation

This study was carried out with financial support from a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 24-18-00261, ‘A socio-structural model of Russian society’s transition to a regime of augmented modernity’).

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24-18-00261

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