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Mixed Marriages through the Prism of the Concept of the Fourth Demographic Transition The research deals with the globalization of international migration, its role and place in the demographic development of the developed countries (including Russia) in historical retrospective with emphasis on their future demographic development. The main attention is drawn to the changes in place and role of international migration in the context of the evolution of demographic transition theory, including the concepts of the second and the third demographic transitions. This gives the possibility to offer a new scenario of future demographic development of the world, which is focused on interconnection of two demographic processes – international migration of population and nuptiality. We call this scenario ‘the fourth demographic transition’ The main statement of this concept is that migration can be positive phenomenon for the future demographic development, which takes into account national and global interests through promotion marriages between native people and migrants. With the help or such marriages new children will be born. They will be the symbol of new viable generation. We would like to emphasize that we speak about marriages between native people and migrants, not about marriages between people of different nationality. Ethnic marriages have already become one of the instruments with the help of which countries can solve their problems within the existing negative demographic situation taking into account rising migration. In this way migration can play positive role and remove ethnic-based tension in society. However, this is possible only in case the policy of isolated immigration enclaves is not applied. Such policy was one of the reasons of multicultural policy collapse. Instead of creation of such enclaves governments should follow the policy, which will stimulate marriages between national people and migrants. In conclusion, we would like to note that our scenario of the future demographic development calls for further learning and reasoning, additional research, through sociological surveys that would give more convincing interpretation of the fourth demographic transition.