News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 14 (2018)

Kazakhstan ranks on the 77th place in migration attractiveness

In Russian: https://kapital.kz/gosudarstvo/70319/kazahstan-na-77-m-meste-rejtinga-po-privlekatelnosti-dlya-migrantov.htm

Prime Minister tells how to return Kyrgyz migrants to homeland

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/prem-er-ministr-rasskazal-kak-vernut-kyrgyzstanskikh-migrantov-na-rodinu.

Work for foreigners in Kyrgyzstan. The migration service sets a quota

In Russian: here.

Report of "Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan" on protection of migrants' rights is recognized as extremist

In Russian: here. 

Labor migrants were found in 52% of Tajik families

In Russian: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.fergananews.com/news/30793.

Uzbekistan to create aid fund for labor migrants

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/30139-v-uzbekistane-sozdadut-fond-pomoschi-trudovym-migrantam.html .

Uzbekistan abolishes mandatory exit permits for migrants

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/uzbekistan-otmenyaet-obyazate/.

Uzbek authorities allowed private companies to send migrants abroad

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/vlasti-uzbekistana-razreshili-chast.

Investigation on the facts of oppression of migrants from Uzbekistan carried out in Russia: it turned out to be fake

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2018/06/28/v-rossii-proveli-rassledovanie-po-faktam-pritesnenij-migrantov-iz-uzbekistana-eto-okazalsya-fejk/ .

Change in the rules of registration for foreign citizens

In Russian: https://pravo.rg.ru/rubrics/question/6379/. 

More than 9 million foreign citizens wish to acquire Russian citizenship

In Russian: https://rg.ru/2018/07/04/bolee-9-mln-inostrannyh-grazhdan-zhelaiut-priobresti-rossijskoe-grazhdanstvo.html .

EAC proposes to expand rights of labor migrants from the EAEU countries

In Russian: : http://www.belta.by/economics/view/eek-predlagaet-rasshirit-prava-trudovyh-migrantov-iz-stran-eaes-308478-2018/.

EU migration deal welcomed by UN agencies

In English: https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/06/1013502 .

Labor migration to Russia: CIS countries overtake EAEC

In Russian: http://eurasia.expert/trudovaya-migratsiya-v-rossiyu-strany-sng-eaes/.

Report highlights plight of Kyrgyz forced laborers in Kazakhstan

In English: https://eurasianet.org/s/report-highlights-plight-of-kyrgyz-forced-laborers-in-kazakhstan .

The long-awaited law. When the rights of migrants to be defended in Tajikistan?

In Russian: https://news.tj/ru/node/256392.  

Number of emigrants from Kazakhstan doubles: what are the reasons?

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/2441137.html.

Invisible and exploited in Kazakhstan: New Report Sheds Light on the Plight of Kyrgyz Migrant Workers and Their Family Member

In English: https://www.fidh.org/en/region/europe-central-asia/kazakhstan/invisible-and-exploited-in-kazakhstan-new-report-sheds-light-on-the .