SPECIAL ASPECTS OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS LABOR MIGRANTS IN THE STUDENT ENVIRONMENT

The paper presents data on the experimental study of the image of labor migrants by Russian students. The study involved 40 full-time students of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod aged 20 to 22 years. The authors carried out the psychodiagnostic research using both direct explicit methods and indirect implicit projective methods. As direct methods, the authors used the diagnostic test of the relationship (G.U. Ktsoeva-Soldatova) and D. Peabody’s test for studying ethnic stereotypes. As an indirect method, the projective technique of express diagnostics was used - the color test of relations (A.M. Etkind & E.V. Bazhina). The results obtained indicate the presence of a negative image of a labor migrant in the student community. According to the results of the study, the image of a labor migrant is associated with achromatic and complementary colors bearing a negative emotional connotation, and labor migrants themselves are endowed mainly with negative qualities of aggressiveness, fault-finding, stinginess, unattractiveness, deceit. Certainly, such an image of a labor migrant, formed in the mass consciousness, contradicts the needs of modern society, in which labor migration objectively becomes a significant factor in socio-economic and political development, and mutual understanding of people belonging to different ethnic groups and cultures becomes an urgent need. The results of the study indicate the need to draw public attention to the formation of a more positive attitude towards labor migrants to prevent their further stigmatization, offenses, and crimes committed based on ethnic discrimination.