Foreign Worker: Questions Concerning Terminology Unification

Abstract

This article investigates questions concerning unification of term “foreign worker”. The author analyzes legislative instruments, which contain related terms that designate subjects of external labour migration. Among these instruments are universal and regional international treaties, bilateral agreements, Russian and foreign national legislation. The author draws attention to legislator’s consistent approach to elaboration of criteria for legal defi nition of the terms in question. It is emphasized that there are certain collisions that prevent consistent determination of foreign workers’ status. The author comes to a conclusion that terminology must be unifi ed by establishment of conceptual framework.