Reasons for Migration Decision Making and Migrants Security Notions

Migration is considered in terms of social psychology through the eyes of its immediate participants. It is argued that the decision to migrate is closely connected with security issues. The survey sample consisted of 80 migrants from former CIS countries. Main motives of going abroad treated in categories of “factual constraint” and “search for better life” were detected. It is indicated that mundane consciousness does not generalize migration reasons with regard to security categories. Migrants’ security notions under study demonstrate specifics of perceiving the surrounding world as threatening and dangerous.