TY - JOUR AB - The fall of the "Iron Curtain" and the dissolution of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) entailed fundamental changes in the size and structure of migration flows affecting the successor states as well as Western Europe. As a consequence of the formation of 15 newly independent states, 12 of them form the Commonwealth of Independent States – CIS, 60 million citizens of the FSU were now living outside their "ethnic homelands". Furthermore, the transformation from command to market based economies entailed the loss of millions of jobs, aggravated social cleavages to a formerly unknown extent, and forced large parts of the population(s) to seek for better economic opportunities outside their home countries. The resulting migration potential would have asked for the swift development of migration strategies and an accompanying build-up of migration management systems. However, the far-reaching transformation processes of the economic, political and social systems left only little room for serious efforts in developing the necessary legal and administrative structures in the field of migration. The lack of such systems together with specific peculiarities of migration in the CIS region lead to the evolvement of large-scale irregular migration flows, that not only affected the CIS countries but spilled over to the territory of the European Union as well. Being increasingly confronted with the negative consequences of unregulated migration, CIS countries have started to adapt their migration management systems in line with international standards. Related efforts are in an initial state and much work remains to be done. Strong cooperation and involvement of the Member States of the EU will be needed to enable the CIS countries to successfully carry out this difficult and demanding task. AU - Hofmann, Martin DO - 10.7396/2007_1_H ET - 3/2013 KW - CIS Soviet Union migration transformation EU L1 - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/2007/ausgabe_1/files/Hofmann_1_2007.pdf LA - eng IS - 1 PY - 2007 SN - 1813-3495 SP - 83-92 ST - Migration Management in the CIS region T2 - SIAK-Journal − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis TI - Migration Management in the CIS region UR - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/2007/ausgabe_1/files/Hofmann_1_2007.pdf VL - 4 ID - 333 ER -