News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 1 (2020)

New procedure for registration of foreigners clarified in the Almaty police

In Russian: https://www.inform.kz/ru/novyy-poryadok-registracii-inostrancev-raz-yasnili-v-policii-almaty_a360269.

Decrease of internal migration one of the main tasks of state policy 

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/30367579.htm.

Number of Kyrgyz citizens abroad increased to 850 thousand - Foreign Ministry

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/chislo-kyrgyzstantcev-za-rubezhom-vyroslo-do-850-tys-mid. 

Over 75% of Tajikistan’s income is remittances from labor migrants

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2020/01/06/bolee-75-dohodov-naseleniya-tadzhikistana-sostavlyayut-denezhnye-perevody-trudovyh-migrantov.

Labor patent for migrants in Moscow gets up by 7%

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/30358577.htm. 

Moscow ratifies an agreement with Dushanbe on labor migrants. What will change?

In Russian: https://rus.ozodi.org/a/30355907.htm.

Why doesn’t the migrant recruitment work?

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2020-01-12--pochemu-ne-rabotaet-orgnabor-migrantov-4691.

Russia: authorities reduce quotas for labor migrants

In Russian: here.

Why are data on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants important and why do we need to improve them?

In English: https://migrationdataportal.org/blog/why-are-data-trafficking-persons-and-smuggling-migrants-important-and-why-do-we-need-improve.

State Migration Service announces job position for head of the migration policy department

In Russian: here.