ABSTRACT
One of the suggested partial solutions to the unemployment problem has been out-migration from Central Asia to other regions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Some Western scholars have maintained that this is by far the most likely outcome of population pressures. This chapter examines some of the organized attempts by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to encourage young Central Asians to move away from their native region in the middle of the 1980s and identifies possible reasons for their meager results. It considers some "external objective factors" which have influenced the ability of the Soviet regime to encourage young Central Asians to move, focuses on young people's skills and attitudes. The chapter looks at attempts by the CPSU in the mid-1980s to encourage greater migration of Central Asians to other areas of their own republics and the USSR.
