News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 5 (2019)

UN calls on Kazakhstan to respect rights of migrants

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2019-03-15--oon-prizyvaet-kazahstan-sobljudat-prava-migrantov-4160.

Top destinations for emigrants - Russia, Germany and the USA

In Russian: https://m.kapital.kz/gosudarstvo/76432/kuda-pereezzhayut-kazahstancy.htm.

Ex-leadership of Taraz migration police convicted for illegal channel of migrants from China

Russian: https://vlast.kz/novosti/32068-eks-rukovodstvo-migracionnoj-policii-taraza-osudili-za-nezakonnyj-kanal-migrantov-iz-kitaa.htm.

Working conditions of Kyrgyz people in Turkey are high - State Migration Service of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/gossluzhba-migratcii-kr-v-vostorge-ot-uslovii-truda-kyrgyzstantcev-v-turtcii.

In January, migrants remitted $ 165.2 million to Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

710 thousand migrants left Kyrgyzstan - State Migration Service

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-pokinuli-710-tys-migrantov-gossluzhba-migratcii.

Held regular field inspection of foreign citizens engaged in labor activities

In Russian: here. 

Selection of applicants for work in Japan takes place in Tashkent

In Russian: https://www.gazeta.uz/ru/2019/03/15/agency.

Organizations to attract migrants come in sight in Russia

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2019-03-15--v-rossii-pojavjatsja-struktury-kotorye-zajmutsja-privlecheniem-migrantov-4159.

About 70 million services in migration rendered in Russia in 2018

In Russian: https://ria.ru/20190313/1551762960.htm.

All conditions created in EAEU for realization of youth labor rights

In Russian: http://www.eurasiancommission.org/ru/nae/news/Pages/05-03-2019-1.asp.

Mastercard Foundation partnering with ILO to create new and improved database on youth in the labor market

In English: https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_676201/lang--en/index.htm. 

As Russia loses its luster, Tajik laborers head to Turkey

In English: https://eurasianet.org/as-russia-loses-its-luster-tajik-laborers-head-to-turke.

Not every third of potential emigrants is sure about his future in Kazakhstan

In English: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2019-03-11--kazhdyj-tretij-iz-potencialnyh-emigrantov-ne-uveren-v-svoem-buduschem-v-rk-4150.

Effectiveness of Abylgaziyev government or why Nazarbayev scares with lives of Kyrgyz migrants

In English: https://knews.kg/2019/03/12/effektivnost-pravitelstva-abylgazieva-ili-pochemu-nazarbaev-pugaet-zhiznyu-kyrgyzskih-migrantov.

Migrant beneficiaries

In Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3909388?from=main_.

Flew away and no promise to return

In Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/386215.

Living at the expense of Russia: how Uzbekistan withdraws money

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/economic/zhit-za-schet-rossii-kak-uzbekistan-vyvodit-dengi.

I would go to migrant workers - let them teach me!

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/redactor/ya-bi-v-gasterbayteri22.

The Dream Bakery that Supports Returned Women Migrants in Tajikistan

In English: https://www.iom.int/news/dream-bakery-supports-returned-women-migrants-tajikista.

Film about a Kyrgyz migrant “Aika”, who conquered Cannes, showed to young people in Bishkek

In English: http://birduino.kg/ru/pressa/893-film-o-kyrgyzskoj-migrantke-ajka-pokorivshij-kanny-pokazali-molodezhi-v-bishkek. 

VIDEOS: Results of Advocacy Center work on provision of legal assistance, as well as promoting interests of internal migrants of Osh

In English: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/7465-videomaterialy-itogi-raboty-edvokasi-tsentra-po-okazaniyu-pravovoj-yuridicheskoj-pomoshchi-a-takzhe-prodvizhenii-interesov-vnutrennikh-migrantov-g-os.

Global Migration Indicators 2018

In English: http://publications.iom.int/books/global-migration-indicators-2018?language=e. 

State Migration Service informed change of address

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/v-gossluzhbe-migratcii-soobshchili-o-smene-adresa.

Press Cafe: "Interaction of Migrants Assistance Centers with media in covering problems of migrants and their families

In Russian: http://rce.kg/2019/03/05/press-kafe-vzaimodejstvie-tsentrov-sodejstviya-migrantam-so-smi-v-osveshhenii-problem-migrantov-i-chlenov-ih-semej/?fbclid=IwAR1faWfbpz1_qzUCcclSfyH8S5qix2Ve1MAwnoUBJz_ylaflaxPPOJpT5v.

Issues on establishment of child custody of migrant workers and the role of state structures in protecting children's rights discussed in Osh

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/7441-v-oshe-obsudili-voprosy-po-problemam-ustanovleniya-opeki-nad-detmi-trudovykh-migrantov-i-rol-gosudarstvennykh-struktur-v-zashchite-prav-dete.