American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 56

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 56

Date: November 15 –  28, 2013              

Kazakhstan

 

Kazakh Ambassador to Russia: no serious problem with migrants in the

relations of Russia and Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.rbc.ru/fnews.open/20131114180247.shtml.

 

Migrants' rights discussed in Shymkent

In Russian: http://constitution.kz/news/news_7442.html.

 

Kazakhstan to introduce "labor patent" for foreigners

In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2607329.

 

Migrants arriving in Kazakhstan would be fingerprinted

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4588618-u-migrantov-pribyvajushhikh-v.html.

 

Hundred thousands of foreigners work in Almaty markets

In Russian: http://easttime.ru/news/kazakhstan/na-rynkakh-almaty-rabotayut-sotni-tysyach-inostrantsev/5161.

 

  

Kyrgyzstan

 

  Russia and Kyrgyzstan to create a negotiating group on migrants

In Russian: here.

 

5 professional lyceums to train Kyrgyz citizens wishing to work in Russia

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66649.

 

Migrant workers would be provided with pension

In Russian: here.

 

Common efforts of the CIS and EurAsEC are needed in addressing issues of labor migration - MP

In Russian: here.

 

Russia and Kyrgyzstan are planning to establish a single center in Osh airport, where migrants can learn, not whether they are made in the checklist of the Federal Migration Service

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1998801.

 

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federal Migration Service told why migrants irritate Russians

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-244171-ru.html.

 

Deputy of Russia promised to assist in the signing of an agreement regulating the life and work of Kyrgyz migrants in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Remittances from migrants exceeded budget revenues by one-third

In Russian: here.

 

Migrants have stimulated the construction boom in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyzstan involved more women than men in the migration process in the last decade

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66485.

 

Kyrgyzstan and Russia data on the number of legal and illegal Kyrgyz migrants in Russia differ

In Russian: here.

 

54% of Kyrgyz labor migrants in Russia are busy working in the service industry - the Federal Migration Service

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1998391.

 

365 thousand Kyrgyz citizens have permission to work in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Annually around 45,000 Kyrgyz leave for earnings 

In Russian: here.

 

28.6 thousand migrants from Kyrgyzstan blacklisted in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Member of Parliament: 85% of migrants traveling to Russia - people of working age

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1998321.

 

Unemployment fell from 5.8% in 2010 to 5.2% in the III quarter of 2013 – Labor Ministry of RK

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2018311.

 

Issues of employment and migration to discuss with Deputy Prime Minister K.Talieva in Osh

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-244579-ru.html.

 

Immigration Consultation for Kyrgyz Community in USA

In English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-C8c3m5I8.

 

Social videos to show in Kyrgyzstan especially for migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyzstan and Russia signed an agreement on a set of organized workers to work in the Russian Federation

In Russian: here.

 

Russian Foreign Ministry announced the statistics on migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Labor Ministry and "Zamandash" agreed to cooperate on migration

In Russian: here.

 

About demand for migrants from the Kyrgyz Republic in Russia told in parliament

In Russian: here.

 

Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic participates in the International Forum on Labor Migration in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66916.

 

Russian blacklist on migrants offer to distribute to ticket offices

In Russian: here.

 

Parliamentary committee recognized the work of the Government on addressing migrant’s issues as insufficient

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/67001.

 

Teachers accused of language problems of migrants in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Parliament to consider a report of Labor Ministry Head on migrants

In Russian: here.

 

In Russian Troitsk discussed the problems of migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyz Parliament proposes to allow migrants with Russian citizenship to acquire land and work in the bodies of local self-government

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/parlament/166242-v-parlamente-kyrgyzstana-predlagayut-razreshit.html.

 

From the beginning of the year 74,800 work permits in Russia given to Kyrgyz citizens

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/67282.

 

Russian language courses started for labor migrants in Osh

In Russian: here.

 

Number of debtors on microcredit increased in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/40091/397.py

 

 

Tajikistan

 

  IMF predicts decline in remittances in Tajikistan in 2014

In Russian: here.

 

Women residents of Tajikistan ask to deport their husbands from Russia

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/sng/deportirovat-iz-rossii-svoih-mujey-prosyat-jitelnitsyi-tadjikistana-245984/.

 

About 11 thousand unemployed registered in the north Tajikistan

In Russian: here.

 

MS: Within ten months 721 million citizens of Tajikistan left the country in search of decent work

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/ms-za-desyat-mesyatsev-721-tys-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-pokinuli-stranu-v-poiskakh-dostoinoi-rabo.

 

"Sex, age - problems of adaptation in the context of migration"

In Russian: http://tajmigration.ru/news/58-pol-vozrast-problemy-adaptacii-v-kontekste-migracii.html.

 

Publicist A. Afghanov gives free Russian lessons for migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Tajik Labor Migrants Need Better Rights, Better Preparation

In English: http://iwpr.net/report-news/tajik-labour-migrants-need-better-rights-better-preparation.

 

FMS would not help the wives of migrant workers

In Russian: here.

 

Families of migrant workers from 5 of 10 regions in the south of Tajikistan took part in the action on HIV/ AIDS

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/semi-trudovykh-migrantov-5-iz-10-raionov-yuga-tadzhikistana-prinyali-uchastie-v-aktsii-po-vichs.

 

183,634 new jobs created in Tajikistan in Jan-Oct 2013

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-tadzhikistane-s-nachala-goda-sozdano-okolo-184-tys-novykh-rabochikh-mest.

 

Federal Migration Service: As for November 13, more than 1 million 146 thousand citizens of Tajikistan were in Russia

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/fms-rf-na-13-noyabrya-v-rossii-nakhodilos-bolee-1-mln-146-tys-grazhdan-tadzhikistana

 

  

Uzbekistan

 

Uzbek diaspora in Russia complained about poor performance of the

Uzbek Embassy in Moscow to Islam Karimov

In Russian: http://vesti.uz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40164.

 

The MPs adopted a program to create jobs in 2014

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/politics/26173/.

 

 

Russia

 

Moscow to host a meeting of the Council on Labor, Migration and Social

Protection of CIS

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2015271.

 

Migrant workers take the analog of simplified USE on knowledge of Russian language

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2004671.

 

Offer to Russia to invest in the development of labor migration

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2015221.

 

Labor migrants traveling to Russia  would be required to buy health insurance

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2009141.

 

FMS simplified migration registration

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/40051/571.py.

 

FMS offers seriously change the immigration laws

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/40050/844.py.

 

Putin has tightened migration regime in Sochi

In Russian: here.

 

Liberal Democratic Party proposes to introduce the death penalty for migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/ldpr-predlagaet-vvesti-smertnuyu-kazn-dlya-migrantov.

 

Medical insurance and residence permit is needed migrants for employment

In Russian: here.

 

Soon Russia tightens migration policy in connection with the Olympic Games in Sochi

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20131126/18827.html.

 

Putin: one of the themes of summer summit "eight" in Sochi would be the issue of migration

In Russian: http://www.interfax.ru/world/news.asp?id=343176.

 

Cities for migrants can arrange in the center of Moscow

In Russian: http://ria.ru/moscow/20131128/980337512.html.

 

Head of OS at FMS: the introduction of the migration Ombudsman should be discussed

In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20131126/979835297.html.

 

Prospects for labor migration from Central Asia discussed in Ufa

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2043761.

 

Checkpoints for migrant workers may appear in the subway

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/561456.

 

More than 3.5 million foreigners may stay illegally in Russia

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2013/11/26/1203956.html.

 

 

Multilateral

 

  Minsk hosted the meeting of the CIS Heads of Migration Bodies

In Russian: here.

 

 

International News

 

  CIA collects database of international remittances

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tsru-sobirayut-bazu-dannykh-o-mezhdunarodnykh-denezhnykh-perevodakh.

 

ILO launches book on labour administration in times of crisis

In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/media-centre/press-releases/WCMS_230142/lang--en/index.htm.

 

Germany and France like London are going to limit the rights of migrants

In Russian: http://ria.ru/world/20131128/980335833.html.

 

  

Analytics

 

It is impossible to argue that the number of migrant workers from

Kazakhstan to Russia grows - expert IOM

In Russian: http://newskaz.ru/comment/20131118/5802174.html.

 

Islam Karimov does not want to face the problem of labor migration - Uzbek expert

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2014941.

 

Migrants are suing for Russian citizenship

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2016641.

 

Labor migration - export brand of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2014381.

 

Migratsiya.kg handy there where was born?

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2000081.

 

Migration without politics

In Russian: here.

 

PTRC: Our migrant workers have many problems

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/36/40066/323.py.

 

Russia really needs migrants

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/40062/729.py.

 

MPs and experts looked for the solutions of migration issues

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/846-parlamentarii-i-eksperty-iskali-reshenie-problemy-migratsii.

 

"Borderline" innovations in Russia: what awaits migrants? ("1news.az", Azerbaijan)

In Russian: http://www.inosmi.ru/sngbaltia/20131115/214815746.html.

 

Peter - the cradle of migration

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2013/11/20/migranti.html.

 

Migration and Integration

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2013/11/21/migrant.html.

 

Kyrgyz Ask Why Jobs At Home Are Going To Chinese

In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67775.

 

How Russia solves the problem of fertility by migrants?

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2027151.

 

Empire of migrants

In Russian: http://svpressa.ru/society/article/78071/?rss=1.

 

Polis inaccessibility

In Russian: http://svpressa.ru/society/article/78086/?rss=1.

 

Russians on migration and ethnic tensions

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0575/opros02.php.

 

Whose are you?

In Russian: http://www.express-k.kz/show_article.php?art_id=89284.

 

Tajik rap, Kyrgyz club. Nightlife of migrant workers

In Russian: http://ria.ru/ocherki/20131127/979852536.html.

 

Kazakhstan has changed immigration laws

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40093/878.py.

 

Abandoned Wives Struggle to Survive in Tajikistan

In English: http://iwpr.net/report-news/abandoned-wives-struggle-survive-tajikistan.

 

 

Publications

 

  New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” # 22, November 2013

In Russian: here.

 

New Issue of “Compatriots” # 11, November 2013

In Russian: here.

 

Independent Public and Political newspaper Pluralism number 26b , November 2013

In Russian: http://www.anticorruption.kg/wp-content/uploads/pluralizm/pluralizm-26.pdf.

 

International Migration, Health and Human Rights

In English: here.

 

International Migration, Vol. 51(6) 2013

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=1045.

 

Migration Initiatives 2014: Health of Migrants

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34&products_id=1043.

 

 

Announcements

 

Press conference on the theme: On the situation of migrant workers in the Russian Federation

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/40071/298.py.

 

Media Center "RG" reports

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2013/11/22/migraciya.html.

 

 


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