American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 60

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 60

Date: January 10 – 23, 2014     

Kazakhstan

 

  Tax for labour migrants makes $ 25 - Astana akimat

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2176661.

 

Deputy proposes to limit registration in major cities for the regulation of internal migration in Kazakhstan

In Russian: here.

 

Large-scale migration to Kazakhstan of China and Pakistan citizens stopped with Prosecutor’s Office

In Russian: here.

 

Foreigners coming to work in Temirtau to be fingerprinted

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/180918/.

 

Average wages in Kazakhstan rise by 7.6 per cent in 2013

In English: here.

 

It is easier now for foreigners to get a job in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4597703-inostrancam-sejjchas-proshhe-ustroitsja.html.

 

Oralmans are in difficulty on determination of their official status

In Russian: http://www.liter.kz/articles/view/40567.

 

23 Syrian violated immigration laws of Kazakhstan in 2013

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/crime/23-siriytsa-narushili-migratsionnoe-zakonodatelstvo-kazahstana-v-2013-godu-249196/.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Kyrgyzstan to offer Russia a draft agreement under which migrants can be issued legalizing documents at home before leaving

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/69666.

 

From January 1, 2014 an order of entry and exit in Russia drastically changed - Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2173101.

 

Representatives of Social Fund KR go for consultations to Moscow on the issue of mitigation of social security for labor migrants

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2190091.

 

Diplomats accused of not serious attitude to the problems of migrants

In Russian:here.

 

MP asks about impact of new Russian laws on migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Crime rise commited by illegal immigrants observed in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20140112/19119.html.

 

Kyrgyzstan ready to accept nearly 13,000 migrant workers in 2014

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2168201.

 

Embassy of KR helps 200 migrants to get 2.4 million roubles wages back from two Moscow companies

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2170341.

 

210 thousand unemployed in Kyrgyzstan, 58 thousand officially registered – Ministry of Labor (Statistics)

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2168871.

 

Over 10.6 thousand people from Bazar-Kurgan district work abroad

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-247947-ru.html.

 

Prime Minister  established a working group to address legal issues of Kyrgyz migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/70152.

 

Experts from many countries to discuss labor migration issues of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/70068.

 

KR Social Fund and RF Labor Ministry to discuss social security issue of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/69720.

 

Ombudsman tries to reduce number of Kyrgyz citizens in Russian immigration "blacklist"

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/kyrgyzstan/society/16615085/.

 

Russia to continue to liaise with Kyrgyzstan on migration issues

In Russian: here.

 

Most Kyrgyz are willing to go to work in UAE and South Korea

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/70093.

 

Ombudsman and MFA are asked to help return migrants from Russia

In Russian: here

 

Kyrgyz MFA Delegation held meetings with Kyrgyz migrants in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Three public advisers to  KR Ombudsman selected from Kyrgyz diaspora representatives in Russia

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/cis/169965-iz-chisla-predstavitelej-kyrgyzskoj-diaspory-v.html.

 

Center of legal security and assistance for Kyrgyz migrants to open in Yekaterinburg

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/70088.

 

Internal migrants community implement one of its projects

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/821-21-yanvarya-2014-soobshchestvo-vnutrennikh-migrantov-realizovalo-odin-iz-svoikh-proektov.

 

Net inflow of remittances to Kyrgyzstan for 11 months in 2013 amounted to $ 1,733 billion

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/economics/169859-chistyj-pritok-denezhnyx-perevodov-v-kyrgyzstan.html.

 

More than 7.6 thousand people applied to Community Liaison Office of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Youth in 2013

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/169924-v-2013-godu-v-obshhestvennuyu-priemnuyu.html.

 

Over two thousand people requested employment in UAE last year, 54 of them migarted – KR Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2221441.

 

 

Tajikistan

 

Agreement between Russian and Tajikistan governments on migrants to be changed

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/01/15/1221050.html.

 

With the entry of innovation in Russian migration legislation into force MS office meets with labor migrants

In Russian: http://tajmigration.ru/news/95-v-svyazi-s-vstupleniem-v-silu-novovvedeniy-v-migracionnom-zakonodatelstve-rf-predstavitelstvo-ms-provodit-vstrechi-s-trudovymi-migrantami.html.

 

Tajik migrant workers are increasingly interested in health insurance

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikskie-trudovye-migranty-vse-bolshe-interesuyutsya-meditsinskoi-strakhovkoi.

 

Leader of the "Tajik Labor Migrants": Common regional interests save peoples of CA

In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/1755150.html.

 

"Tochiksugurta" and "National Insurance Company" jointly provide services for Tajik migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tochiksugurta-i-vserossiiskaya-strakhovaya-kompaniya-sovmestno-predostavyat-uslugi-tadzhikskim-.

 

Agreement on stay of Tajik citizens in Russia came into force

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/soglashenie-o-prebyvanii-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-v-rossii-vstupilo-v-silu.

 

Tajik researchers produce a book on migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikskie-issledovateli-izdali-knigu-po-migratsii.

 

Russian company intends to create a recruiting agencies in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/rossiiskaya-kompaniya-namerena-sozdat-kadrovye-agentstva-v-tadzhikistane.

 

Tajiks can get a three-year work permit

In Russian: here.

 

Siberian enterprises are ready to take Tajik citizens for work

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/sibirskie-predpriyatiya-gotovy-prinyat-na-rabotu-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

  Uzbekistan citizens "lead" foreigners black list in Russia

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0581/panorm01.php#15.

 

About 2.6 million Uzbekistan citizens reside in Russia

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0581/panorm01.php#14.

 

Migrant workers from Uzbekistan stuck on the highway Almaty - Yekaterinburg

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/events/gastarbayteryi-iz-uzbekistana-zastryali-na-trasse-almatyi---ekaterinburg-249286/.

 

 

Russia

 

  FMS: Civilized migration to be reached in Russia in two years

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/1169-fms-rossiya-pridet-k-tsivilizovannoj-migratsii-cherez-dva-goda.

 

MPs intend to restrict money transfers through Internet as the fight against terrorism

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/1177-deputaty-khotyat-ogranichit-denezhnye-perevody-cherez-internet-v-ramkakh-borby-s-terrorizmom.

 

Human rights activists offer to abandon deportations of migrants

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/archive/ky_News_in_Russian_ru/20140114/4795/4795.html?id=25229346.

 

FMS: Foreigners working in Russia should receive Taxpayer Identification Number

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/01/15/1221212.html.

 

Illegal migrants to be deported from Russia on employers money

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/moldova/politics/16447721/.

 

No work permit for migrants hiding the purpose of entry into RF

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40214/488.py.

 

Foreign students can obtain a work permit and work in RF from January 1, 2014

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40212/773.py.

 

Testing labor migrants in Russian language knowledge

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40211/786.py.

 

Press conference held at ITAR-TASS on "Changes in immigration legislation" (video)

In Russian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP9sbVgx7s.

 

FMS to create a service that can help determine  duration of stay in RF

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/fms-sozdast-servis-kotoryi-pomozhet-uznat-kak-dolgo-mozhno-ostavatsya-v-rf.

 

Law on Social Insurance of migrants may enter into force next year

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/01/20/1223119.html.

 

Number of universities testing migrants to expand in Russia

In Russian: here.  

 

About 17.5 million foreigners entered Russia in 2013

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40205/863.py.

 

Russia’s Perm Territory becomes ILO’s partner

In English: here.

 

 

Multilateral

 

  Migrant workers suggest to unite Central Asia

In Russian: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/01/15/unite/.

 

 

International News

 

  European Commission to define barrier of "migration out of poverty"

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/latvia/economics/16460377/.

 

Long-term unemployment, the new challenge for many countries

In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_232094/lang--en/index.htm.

 

HRW urged the U.S. government to accept immigration reform

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/politics/16587986/.

 

 

Analytics

 

  Not only about Migrants

In Russian: http://akipress.org/comments/news:13774.

 

Problems of migrants: an inside look

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2176271.

 

Migrants in Russia at the mercy of workforce traders' 

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2175271.

 

Migration in Kazakhstan requires a balanced approach

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/migratsiya-v-kazahstane-trebuet-vzveshennogo-podhoda-248925/.

 

Migrants would be evicted at the second attempt

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php/analitica/item/1164-migrantov-vyselyat-so-vtoroj-popytki.

 

Will Russia introduce visa for migrants?

In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1902.

 

Word about migrants

In Russian: http://akipress.org/comments/news:13777.

 

Central Asian countries are offered to unite into a single political entity

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2191701.

 

Radik Murzagaleev: Success of Eurasian integration depends on solving labor migrants problems

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2180941.

 

Migrants follow investments

In Russian: http://www.opec.ru/1649543.html#.UuEDBo_6sFw.facebook.

 

Export of the highest standard

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/169698-yeksport-vysshej-proby.html.

 

What can you learn at the Center for Employment of Citizens Abroad?

In Russian: here.

 

Future of Kazakhstan on the background of the Tajik-Kyrgyz conflict

In Russian: here.

 

"One Kazakh school - in the whole territory of Russia"

In Russian: http://rus.azattyq.org/content/kazakhi-diaspora-v-rossii-interview/25227274.html.

 

Migrants prefer USA

In Russian: http://kapital.kz/world/25761/migranty-predpochitayut-ssha.html.

 

Law on "five guest workers for one host"

In Russian: http://rus.azattyq.org/content/trudovye-migranty-zakon-registracia/25234674.html.

 

Migrants’ children

In Russian: http://akipress.org/comments/news:13794.

 

Radio "Svoboda": Different destinies of Kyrgyz migrants

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2221351.

 

Biryulevo lessons digested slowly. Millions of migrants enter Russia, and only dozens learn Russian language 

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2216581.

 

Migrants - in Russia with dislike

In Russian: http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=ru&sub=&cid=31&nid=24811.

 

Number of international migrants decreased in all the former Soviet Republics, but in varying degrees

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0581/barom05.php.

 

Zbyszek, Hose and Ravshan

In Russian: http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/2/0/all/2014/01/04/316150.

 

Why Russia cannot avoid the influx of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Information vacation, or why migrant need Internet - St. Petersburg CISR

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1389931620.

 

 

Publications

 

  News on Labor Migration №10 (58), November - December 2013

In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/vestnik/12_2013/#1/z.

 

Practical guide to legal relations involving foreign citizens in the field of labor migration

In Russian: here.

 

Central Asia Regional Migration Programme. Programme News, January – March 2013

In English: http://moscow.iom.int/publications/CARMP/bulletin/2013/Brief%20for%20Jan-Marc%202013%20EN.pdf.

 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 2, January 2014

In Russian: here.

 

Tajik Migrants with Re-entry Bans to the Russian Federation

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=41_7&products_id=1051.

 

Global Employment Trends 2014: The risk of a jobless recovery

In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2014/WCMS_234107/lang--en/index.htm

 

 

Announcements

 

KR Ministry of Labor, Migration and Youth reminds of helpline and

hotline

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=2183131.

 

Call for conducting number of studies in migration

In Russian: http://iom.kg/?p=1113.

 

Call for Papers. 10th Turkish Migration Studies (TurkMiS) Workshop

In English: here.

  

 


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