American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 49

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 49

 Date: August 09 - 23, 2013     

Kazakhstan

 

Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry commented on the visa-free regime with China

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/kazakhstan/politics/14300467/.

 

Kazakh migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.z001.kz/news/view?id=1091.

 

Surplus balance of migration in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/153676/.

 

Migration people in Astana told in which areas guest workers work

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/153240/.

 

31 employers in Astana get punished for bringing guest workers

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/152920/.

 

Temporary reduction in the number of registered foreigners in Astana

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/152823/.

 

Kazakhstan plans to simplify the issuance of permits for migrant workers

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/kazahstan-planiruet-uprostit-vyidachu-razresheniy-trudovyim-migrantam-240150/.

 

Political analyst advises Zhanozen people to seek work elsewhere

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/politolog-sovetuet-janaozentsam-iskat-rabotu-v-drugih-regionah-240185/.

 

Number of people coming to Astana declined by 42.3% for 6 months of 2013

In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=385304.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Migration centers in Kyrgyz airports

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130815/17911.html.

 

Ministers of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation discussed the provision of medical services to citizens of Kyrgyzstan to Russia

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/kyrgyzstan/politics/14301533/.

 

Issues of international adoption and protection of the rights of migrant workers to discuss on the Kyrgyz-Turkish intergovernmental commission

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1719642.

 

Pradeep Sharma: Kyrgyzstan is a country with a young population and a high level of migration

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1717322.

 

Otunbayeva proposes a state agency for Migration

In Russian: here.

 

Ministry of Labor, Migration and youth brings to the discussion of the draft law "On the activities of private employment agencies abroad"

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1728042.

 

Free Russian language courses in Moscow for migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130814/17883.html.

 

Minister of Health D.Saginbaeva: provision of medical care to women and children are put forward by migrant workers as a priority

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1720252.

 

Migrants from Kyrgyzstan warned about the limitations because of the Olympics

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyz people become participants of the legal seminar in Moscow mosque

In Russian: here.

 

Moscow authorities supported the language initiative of the Kyrgyz people

In Russian: here.

 

Alisher Madanbekov: Before moving to work in Russia, Kyrgyz migrants should be prepared

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/158458-alisher-madanbekov-prezhde-chem-vyezzhat-na.html.

 

Kyrgyz Diasporas leaders told Asylbek Jeenbekov problems with registration and medical aid abroad

In Russian: here.

 

About $ 800 million of remittances to Kyrgyzstan this year

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/archive/ky_News_in_Russian_ru/20130809/4795/4795.html?id=25070612.

 

More than 96 thousand unemployed on the account of Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130809/17831.html.

 

More than 800 young people left Osh to work in South Korea

In Russian: here.

 

About 500 thousand Kyrgyz citizens are constantly working abroad, which is 10.5% of the working population

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-235422-ru.html.

 

Internal and external migration increased in Osh and southern areas - Oshgorstat

In Russian: http://for.kg/news-234811-ru.html.

 

IPC deals with external migration

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/411-14-avgusta-2013-tssmz-zanimaetsya-voprosami-vneshnej-migratsii.

 

Association "Zamandash" praised for doing the work of the Government

In Russian: here.

 

Komuz courses for immigrant children to open in Moscow

In Russian: here

 

Moscow does not trust tears. Do not stoop – get education.

In Russian: here.

 

Open courses for migrants

In Russian: http://www.gezitter.org/society/22916_otkroyutsya_kursyi_dlya_migrantov/

 

Bishkek to host protest action against Russia's migration policy

In Russian: here.

 

Human rights activists conducted studies on the situation of the rights of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Almaty

In Russian: http://news.namba.net/read.php?id=813112.

 

Ministry of Health is noted for lack of attention to migrant workers

In Russian: here

 

Migration flows from Kyrgyzstan are growing in the direction of the two countries of the Customs Union - experts N.Beyshenaly and V.Pereboev

In Russian: http://tazabek.kg/print:356256.

 

Kyrgyz Diaspora opened medical center for migrants in Yekaterinburg

In Russian: here

 

Employees of the Naryn police department organized illegal transfer of Kyrgyz migrant workers to Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1732472.

 

Moscow's Muftiyat to help in the cultural adaptation of migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Only two lawyers work in the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Russian Federation who can not cope with the solution of problems of all migrants - Z.Sariev

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/61317.

 

Dzhamilahan Begieva: “There are no rooms for gynecological examinations of migrant workers In Moscow”

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/61164.

 

Kyrgyzstan: the growth in working-age population is more than 2 times higher than the increase in employment

In Russian: http://www.kyrgyztoday.kg/ru/dajdzhest-smi/item/32031.

 

Almost a billion dollars of remittances to Kyrgyzstan during the six months migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Officially there are nearly 60,000 unemployed in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.  

 

23% of Kyrgyz people have permission to work in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

11% of labor migrants in Russia are Kyrgyz people

In Russian: here.  

 

Kyrgyz labor migrants left 8 children in hospitals of Russia

In Russian: here.  

 

About 5,000 Kyrgyz people are in the labor migration in Perm

In Russian: here.

 

 

Tajikistan

 

Tajik Embassy in Moscow expects migration situation in Russia to deteriorate

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/posolstvo-rt-v-rf-situatsiya-v-migratsionnoi-sfere-pered-vyborami-mera-moskvy-uslozhnitsya.

 

24 hours broadcasting in Tajik language in the Russian TV channel

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/economics/14278056/.

 

Red Cross handed hygiene for migrants in Golyanovo

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/predstaviteli-krasnogo-kresta-peredali-sredstva-gigieny-dlya-migrantov-v-golyanovo.

 

Zoyirov asks Attorney General of the Russian Federation to give a legal assessment of the situation in camps for migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Tajikistan specifies the number of its citizens detained in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/19764-tadzhikistan-utochnyaet-kolichestvo-svoih-grazhdan-zaderzhannyh-v-moskve.html.

 

About 50 Tajik nationals held in detention centers in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/okolo-50-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan-soderzhatsya-v-spetspriemnikakh-sankt-peterburga.

 

300 migrants were deported from Tajikistan since the beginning of the year

In Russian: here.

 

No more citizens of Tajikistan remained in the Moscow camp for migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-moskovskom-palatochnom-lagere-dlya-migrantov-ne-ostalos-grazhdan-tadzhikistana.

 

Tajikistan - United States: discussed issues of migration

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2013/08/16/tadzhikistan_%E2%80%93_ssha_obsuzhdeny_voprosy_migracii.

 

Parliamentary Council discussed the Tajik-Russian agreement on labor migration

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/19985-parlamentskiy-sovet-obsudil-tadzhiksko-rossiyskoe-soglashenie-v-sfere-trudovoy-migracii.html.

 

Migration Service of Tajikistan: there are few professionals among labor migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Tajinfo became the owner of the online radio for Tajik migrants' Muhodzhir "

In Russian: here.

 

Over 547 Thousand People Left Tajikistan since the Beginning of the Year for Labor Migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/s-nachala-goda-iz-tadzhikistana-v-trudovuyu-migratsiyu-vyekhalo-svyshe-547-tys-grazhdan.

 

About 30% of returning Tajik labor migrants reportedly suffer from various diseases

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/okolo-30-tadzhikskikh-migrantov-vozvrashchayutsya-domoi-bolnymi.

 

About 80 thousand unemployed registered at employment offices of RT in the first half of the year

In Russian: here.  

 

135 thousand new jobs in Tajikistan since the beginning of the year

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-tadzhikistane-s-nachala-goda-sozdano-135-tys-novykh-rabochikh-mest.

 

Russian construction company is looking for over 1 million Tajik migrants for work

In Russian: here.

 

Labor Migrants and Members of their Families Increase their Knowledge on Migration and Health in Tursunzoda's Jura Rahmonov Jamoat

In English: http://www.iom.tj/index.php/news/press-releases/189-labour-migrants-and-members-of-their-families-increase-their-knowledge-on-migration-and-health-in-tursunzoda-s-jura-rahmonov-jamoat.

  

 

Uzbekistan

 

Issues of job creation discussed

In Russian: http://www.uzinform.com/ru/news/20130815/19502.html.

 

Illegal migrants from the Mari-El were sent to Uzbekistan

In Russian: http://maxala.org/news/print:page,1,16579-nelegalnyh-migrantov-iz-mariy-el-otpravili-v-uzbekistan.html.

 

All-Russian Congress of Uzbeks presented the draft on adaptation center for migrants to PP

In Russian: http://nazaccent.ru/content/8776-vserossijskij-kongress-uzbekov-predstavil-v-op.html.

 

 

Russia

 

Petition against mass roundups of migrants published in Russia

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-rossii-opublikovana-petitsiya-protiv-massovykh-oblav-migrantov.

 

Russia intends to legalize the tent camp for migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/rossiya-namerena-uzakonit-palatochnye-lagerya-dlya-migrantov.

 

Moscow and St. Petersburg increased penalties for violators of migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/moskva-i-peterburg-povysili-shtrafy-dlya-migrantov-narushitelei.

 

The new immigration policy to attract migrants for permanent residence?

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0561/rossia01.php#16.

 

About 90% of migrants from a tent camp in Moscow provided false information about themselves

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/08/09/Okolo-90-migrantov-iz-palatochnogo-lagerya-v-Moskve-predostavili-nedostovernye-svedeniya-o-sebe-372176.

 

Results of the next stage of the operation "Illegal" in Kamchatka

In Russian: http://41.mvd.ru/news/item/1147364/.

 

 

CPRF proposed to complicate the employment of migrants

 

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/kprf-predlozhila-gosdume-uslozhnit-trudoustroistvo-migrantov.

 

Camp for migrants in Golyanovo liquidated

In Russian: http://pda.bfm.ru/news/226320.

 

Petersburg is looking for additional space for illegal migrants

In Russian: http://for.kg/news-235571-ru.html.

  

Sobyanin: Moscow needs 220 thousand migrants from other countries

In Russian: http://radiovesti.ru/article/show/article_id/103330.

 

 

International News

 

HRW urges Russia to immediately halt arbitrary detentions and degrading treatment of migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/human-rights-watch-protestuet-protiv-negumannogo-obrashcheniya-s-nelegalami-v-moskve.

 

“Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward” – International Youth Day, August

In English: http://www.iom.int/cms/en/sites/iom/home/news-and-views/press-briefing-notes/pbn-2013/pbn-listing/youth-migration-moving-developme.html.

 

 

Analytics

 

Migration issues: meatballs separately, flies separately

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1714172.

 

Migrant workers in Russia and the United States: similarities and differences

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2013/05/14/1127631.html.

 

Migrants in Moscow are waiting for a farewell bonfire

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4040-migrantov-v-moskve-zhdet-proschalnyj-koster.html.

 

Human rights activist from Central Asia and Russia established the Women's Coalition for the Protection of the rights of migrant workers

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1725122.

 

Weekly Round Table: how to deal with illegal immigration? (video)

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/video/137218/.

 

I.I.Melnikov: Meeting with the union of migrant workers (video)

In Russian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n50SaBhiVio.

 

President of "Migration XXI Century": Instead of registering to introduce a system of identification for migrants

In Russian: http://nazaccent.ru/content/8713-prezident-fonda-migraciya-xxi-vek-otsutstvie.html.

 

Creating camps for migrants in Russia is against the law - a view

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4025-sozdanie-palatochnyh-lagerej-dlja-migrantov-v-rossii-protivorechit-zakonu-mnenie.html.

 

Lawyer for migrant workers to cost 150-170 thousand soms in Moscow

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1731092.

 

Every second  migrant worker in Astana is a foreigner

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/153275/.

 

In search of work and himself

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/reportaji/158556-v-poiskax-zarabotka-i-sebya.html.

 

Illegal people do not exist

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/25070621.html.

 

Migrants are not afraid of fines

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/08/09/Migranty-shtrafov-ne-boyatsya-372202.

 

Will migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Russia get medical care?

In Russian: http://www.vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=22268:stanut-li-migrantam-iz-kyirgyizstana-okazyivat-v-rossii-meditsinskuyu-pomosch?&Itemid=80.

 

Moscow's methods of dealing with illegal immigrants concerned Central Asia

In Russian: here.

 

How to obtain Russian citizenship?

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4058-kak-poluchit-rossijskoe-grazhdanstvo.html.

 

Russians ... competition with migrants

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0561/gazeta027.php.

 

Behind Russia's Migrant Raids, A Vast Network Of Bribes And Opportunism

In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67355.

 

Why do young people migrate?

In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/comment-analysis/WCMS_219045/lang--en/index.htm. 

 

On labor migration from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kyrgyztoday.kg/ru/obshchestvo/item/31880.

 

About cattle and migrants

In Russian: http://www.snob.ru/profile/27021/blog/64014.

 

Following rules is benefit for migrant

In Russian: http://www.kazved.ru/article/40633.aspx.

 

Demand bears migrants

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/08/20/Spros-rozhdaet-migrantov-374344.

 

EBRD: Remittances to Kyrgyzstan will increase after joining the CU

In Russian: here.

 

Hey, migrant, got to prepare for battle. Ordinary citizens are already hunting for guest workers

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1735952.

 

"Migrants need to know Russian at least at the elementary level," - expert

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4198-migranty-dolzhny-znat-russkij-hotja-by-na-elementarnom-urovne-ekspert.html.

 

Whether Russia will live without migrant workers?

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4151-prozhivet-li-rossija-bez-gastarbajterov.html.

 

Migrants in the law and justice compatriots

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4212-migranty-v-zakone-i-sootechestvenniki-po-spravedlivosti.html.

 

Migrants do not fit into the image of the cultural capital of Russia

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/4182-migranty-ne-vpisalis-v-imidzh-kulturnoj-stolitsy-rossii.html.

 

The Simple Solution to Tackle Youth Unemployment

In English: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130819165448-77238165-the-simple-solution-to-tackle-youth-unemployment?trk=eml-mktg-inf-w-celeb-eas-title.

 

 

Publications

 

News on Labor migration,№6(54) June-July 2013

In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/vestnik/07_2013/#1.

 

Russian guest workers at the South Korean labor market

In Russian: http://ecsocman.hse.ru/data/081/924/1219/010.ZABROVSKAYA.pdf.

 

Focus on Migration: Voluntary Return and Reintegration (Number 3 18th Edition - December 2012)

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=36&products_id=1004.

 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” # 16, August 2013

In Russian: here.

 

IOM Humanitarian Compendium 2013 Mid-Year Review

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1006.

 

 

Announcements

 

The Institute of Social and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host, in Moscow, the 5th International scientific-policy conference “Migration bridges in Eurasia”

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0561/anons.php#13081311.

 

IOM announces

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2013/08/22/mom_obyavlyaet_konkurs.

 

 


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