Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016 9) 837-853 ~ ~ ~ УДК 314.74 Socialization of Tajik Students in Tomsk University Space: Looking for Models and Meaning Nikolay P. Pogodaev* National Research Tomsk State University 36 Lenin, Tomsk, 634050, Russia Received 05.08.2015, received in revised form 17.11.2015, accepted 22.02.2016 In the last ten years, the number of students from Tajikistan studying at Tomsk universities has been steadily increasing. <...> Migrant students face the challenge of adaptation and enculturation in the host community. <...> An important part of this process is getting a good command of the Russian language. <...> Successful social experience of university graduates will help to switch the Youth Bulge phenomenon – the pressure of a large number of young people in Tajikistan on the socio-economic situation in the country of origin and in the host community – to a positive track. <...> Those who will be unable to successfully fi t into the host community may experience at fi rst symbolic, and then physical ghettoization. <...> Disappointment and frustration may encourage them to seek “social justice” through participation in criminal groups and radical religious organizations. <...> Individual in-depth interviews, which are the primary method of gathering information in the framework of this research project, are considered in terms of the status and other attributes of the interaction between a respondent and an interviewer. <...> Keywords: migrant students, cultural distance, culture shock, migration capital, linguistic capital, Youth Bulge, new Russian Asians, individual in-depth interview. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: nik-pogodaev@yandex.ru # 868 # Nikolay P. Pogodaev. <...> Socialization of Tajik Students in Tomsk University Space: Looking for Models and Meaning Introduction Siberia, Tomsk is the oldest University centre in though nowadays it does not attract migration processes and does not serve as the multi-mode host of migration. <...> Adaptation of students from Tajikistan in Russian university societies is only one aspect of major problems of interaction between cultures and countries, adaptation of the host community not only to the increasing fl ow of migrants, but also to the gradual expansion of the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Siberia, growth of the Islamic Ummah. <...> Since 2006, student migration from Tajikistan to Tomsk and other university centers of Western <...>