News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 24 (2017)

First migration center in Kazakhstan opened in North Kazakhstan region

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/en/pervyy-v-kazahstane-migracionnyy-centr-otkryli-v-sko_a3094652.

Ministry of Health: 15 percent of labor migrants "may suffer" from tuberculosis and HIV

In Russian: https://rus.azattyq.org/a/28900284.html.

Fight for work in Kyrgyzstan? The number of employable people is growing

In Russian: here.

27 million som provided from budget for the protection of migrants in 2018

In Russian: here.

Over a million Kyrgyz citizens found a new homeland during the years of independence

In Russian: here.

Internal migrants: visiting meeting of internal migrants living in country plots "Rodnik" and "Geology", located on the outskirts of Osh city

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/5194-30-noyabrya-vnutrennie-migranty-vyezdnaya-vstrecha-vnutrennimi-migrantami-prozhivayushchimi-na-dachnykh-uchastkakh-rodnik-i-geologiya-raspolozhennykh-na-okraine-goroda-osh.

Kyrgyz migrants asked ombudsman to open an office in Moscow to protect their rights

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzskie-migranty-v-moskve-poprosili-ombudsmena-otkryt-ofis-dlia-zashchity-ikh-prav/.

How much money was transferred by Kyrgyz migrants to homeland in 2017?

In Russian: here.

700 thousand Kyrgyz citizens outside of Kyrgyzstan, 630 thousand in Russia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyz Republic

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/za-predelami-kyrgyzstana-zaregistrirovano-700-tys-chelovek-iz-ni-v-rossii-630-tys-mid-kr/.

Children of migrants more often subjected to violence, but parents do not want to spoil relations with relatives - deputy

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/deti-migrantov-chashche-podvergaiutsia-nasiliiu-no-roditeli-ne-khotiat-portit-otnosheniia-s-rodstvennikami/.

Head of Phthisiology Center: Detectability and effectiveness of treatment of tuberculosis in Kyrgyz migrants are low

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/news/glava-tcentra-ftiziatrii-vyiavliaemost-i-effektivnost-lecheniia-tuberkuleza-u-kyrgyzskikh-migrantov-nizkie/.

Head of Labor Ministry of Tajikistan about the problems of Tajik migrants

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2017/12/04/glava-mintruda-tadzhikistana-rasskazala-o-problemah-tadzhikskih-migrantov/.

Tajikistan and Russia are preparing agreements on migration and pensions

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/society/20171204/tadzhikistan-i-rossiya-gotovyat-soglasheniya-ob-orgnabore-migrantov-i-ih-pensiyah.

Global Migration Film Festival for the first time in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/society/20171204/v-tadzhikistane-vpervie-proidet-vsemirnii-festival-filmov-o-migratsii.

To deport Karomat Sharipov from Russia to Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/society/20171201/karomata-sharipova-deportiruyut-iz-rossii-v-tadzhikistan.

Over the past 8 months, more than half a million young people left Uzbekistan in search of work

In Russian: https://rus.ozodlik.org/a/28882505.html.

Draft law "On external labor migration" developed in Uzbekistan

In Russian: http://www.uzdaily.uz/articles-id-35219.htm.

Putin ratified agreement on employment of Uzbek citizens in Russia

In Russian: http://podrobno.uz/cat/politic/putin-ratifitsiroval-soglashenie-o-trudoustroystve-grazhdan-uzbekistana-v-rf/.

Government reduced number of necessary foreign workers in Russia by 20.7%

In Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3489533?query=%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82.

PFUR developed online courses for children from migrant families

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/society/20171209/rudn-razrabotal-onlain-kursi-dlya-detei-iz-semei-migrantov.

Issues of pension provision for workers of the EUEU member states discussed in Astana

In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/en/node/347417.

Heads of migration bodies of CIS countries to discuss fight against illegal migration in the Moscow region

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-460167-en.html.

CSTO to develop a program to combat illegal migration

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2017-11-30--odkb-sozdast-programmu-dlja-borby-s-nelegalnoj-migraciej-33790.

US refused to participate in Global Compact on Migration

In English: https://frontnews.eu/news/en/18812/US-refused-to-participate-in-Global-Compact-on-Migration. 

Scientists: scale of religious extremism among Central Asian migrants is greatly exaggerated

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2017-11-29--uchenye-masshtab-religioznogo-ekstremizma-sredi-migrantov-ca-silno-preuvelichen-33759.

Research: More than 40 percent of young people want to leave Kazakhstan

In Russian: https://rus.azattyq.org/a/28885842.html.

Study: Tajik youth are eager to travel to Russia and the West

In Russian: https://rus.ozodi.org/a/28884704.html.

Foreign Ministry: More Migrants, less problems

In Russian: here.

Russia: migrants under pressure?

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/28904392.html.

Migrants money do not work for Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/28900203.html.

Which areas of Kazakhstan are leading by outflow of population?

In Russian: http://vb.kg/world/kakie-oblasti-kazahstana-lidiruyut-po-ottoku-naseleniya.html.