American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 7

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 7

 

Date: March 17-23, 2012

Kazakhstan

 

Minister of Labor visits Almaty region on employment program

In English: http://www.timesca.com/index.php/m-news-by-category/economy-finance-and-investment-news/5934-minister-of-labour-visits-almaty-region-on-employment-program.

 

Unemployed Zhanaozen residents to grow cucumbers and tomatoes

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/923231 or here.

 

Police reveals 80 cases of human trafficking for 5 days in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/921731 or here. 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

International congress of Kyrgyzstanis and compatriots Zamandash initiates third world kurultai

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/922441 or here.

 

Kyrgyzstan trade unions unhappy with new draft Labor Code setting a ‘slavery system’ in their opinion

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/923831 or here.

 

A rally of labor migrants in the capital of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://eng.24.kg/community/2012/03/19/23467.html.

 

MFA KR meets labor migrants working in Kazakhstan and demanding their rights protection

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/922111 or here.

 

Svetlana Semenova: New Labor Code adoption speeded up
In Russian: here.

 

Protesting trade unions threaten to strike third revolution in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Association of Crisis Centers asks Prosecutor General’s Office, Home Affairs Ministry and Ombudsman to pay attention to rape cases of Kyrgyz women in Russia

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/921861 or here.

 

S.Isakov on change of Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan in RF: It is a regular rotation of diplomatic missions’ heads

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:921801/ or here.

 

Ednan Karabayev: Cancellation of the contract on simplified citizenship by Russia is not associated with the statements of Kyrgyzstan’s President in Moscow

In English: http://eng.24.kg/cis/2012/03/13/23377.html.

 

70 percent of labor migrants in Kyrgyzstan suffering tuberculosis have its chronic form

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/124554-v-kyrgyzstane-70-procentov-trudovyx-migrantov.html.

 

Ural volunteers teach Russian language to labor migrants in Osh

In Russian: http://fergana.akipress.org/news:179001/.

 

Private screening of film “Empty House” produced by Nurbek Egen held in Bishkek

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/924351 or here.

 

JK members meet Kyrgyz citizens in Washington

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/922901 or here.

 

Kyrgyz diaspora celebrates Noruz in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/34/38369/273.py.

 

Kyrgyz Ambassador in Germany meets Kyrgyz diaspora representatives

In Russian: here. 

 

Tajikistan

 

Dushanbe airport opens migration selection center before departure to Russia

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/923031 or here.

 

Special electronic service system for labor migrants to be created

In English: http://news.tj/en/news/special-electronic-service-system-labor-migrants-e-created.

 

Payment for labor makes only 12.8% of total income of Tajikistan population

In Russian: here.

 

Tajikistan may increase pension

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/19/v_tadzhikistane_obeshayut_povysit_pensii.

 

Work registration books to be cancelled?

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/19/trudovye_knizhki_likvidiruyut.

 

Part of Tajik citizens leave Syria

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/923761 or here. 

 

Uzbekistan

 

Navruz celebrated in Moscow

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news/921961 or here.

 

Emigrants start packing to go to Volga

In Russian: http://www.vesti.uz/migration//article/28836.

 

Uzbek citizen asks FMS to send him to homeland

In Russian: http://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/incidents/1484823-uzbek-poprosil-migratsionnuyu-sluzhbu-otpravit-ego-na-rodinu.html.

 

HIV positive refugee wins court to live in Russia

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2012/03/22/reg-pfo/spid-anons.html. 

 

Russia

 

Russia to spend 86 billion rubles for migrants

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/19/Na-privlechenie-migrantov-Rossiya-potratit-86-mlrd-rublei-266494.

 

FMS head to report on migration policy in Duma

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/21/Glava-FMS-otchitaetsya-v-Gosdume-266923.

 

FMS head suggests extending duration of entry ban for deported migrants up to 5 years

In Russian: here.

 

Mathematics of Migration. Russian FMS presents a concept of migration policy in numbers and facts to MPs

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news.php?st=1332413280.

 

CPRF pay attention to gaps in migration policy

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/03/21/960060.html.

 

3.2-4 million labor migrants work in Russia illegally, says FMS head Romodanovski

In Russian: http://www.echomsk.spb.ru/news/obschestvo/ot-3-2-do-4-mln-trudovykh-migrantov-rabotayut.html.

 

Romodanovski: Only electronic registration system for foreigners entering Russia can prevent illegal migration

In Russian: http://www.echomsk.spb.ru/news/politika/predotvratit-nelegalnuyu-trudovuyu-immigratsiyu.html.

 

FMS will not allow creation of ‘ethnic ghetto’ in Russia

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/21/FMS-ne-dopustit-sozdaniya-v-Rossii-etnicheskikh-getto-267056.

 

FMS: innovations in Russia are impossible without migrants

In Russian: http://www.russia-on.ru/18829.

 

Diplomats obliged to care for compatriots

In Russian: http://www.vesti.uz/diaspora//article/28896.

 

Migration service head denies growth of crime among migrants in the region

In Russian: http://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/community/1508092-glava-migratsionnoy-sluzhby-otritsaet-rost-prestupnosti-sredi-migrantov-v-regione.html.

 

Kolpino migrants to learn Russian language

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/22/Migranty-Kolpino-budut-izuchat-russkii-yazyk-na-kursakh-267359.

 

Russian migration issues discussed at the President’s Council

In Russian: http://primamedia.ru/news/economics/23.03.2012/197314/problemi-rossiyskoy-migratsii-obsudili-na-sovete-pri-prezidente.html.

 

Kaliningrad citizens do not want jobs occupied by Gastarbeiter

In Russian: http://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/community/1508332-umfs-kaliningradtsy-ne-khotyat-zanimat-vakansii-na-kotorykh-rabotayut-gastarbaytery.html. 

 

Multilateral

 

Illegal migration issues

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/20/voprosy_nezakonnoy_migracii.

 

“Organized” migrants from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to arrive in Russia by March end

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/38368/779.py.

 

FMS: RF will continue cooperation with Kyrgyzstan on citizenship issue

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/03/22/960437.html.

 

Misharin: Economy growth in Middle Ural is not feasible without migrants

In Russian: here. 

 

Analytics

 

Labor migrants prefer paying for legal status by simplified procedure

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/6/38359/101.py.

 

Unexpected come

In Russian: http://www.trud.ru/article/21-03-2012/273864_zhdem_odnix_priezzhajut_drugie.html.

 

NTV: Which migrants succeeded not only remain but gain recognition of the society? (Video)

In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/ntv-itogovaya-programma-segodnya-komu-iz-migrantov-udalos-v-rossii-ne-tolko-ponaostavatsya-no-i-poluchit-priznanie-obshhestvavideo.html.

 

Tajiks become servants of Chinese in Tajik land

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news.php?st=1332414240.

 

Invitation to a ball

In Russian: http://www.vz.ru/society/2012/3/21/569934.html. 

 

Publications

 

News of Regional Program on Migration in Central Asia and Russia, UN Women

In Russian: here.

 

News of Labor Migration from Tajikistan. Review of media on CA and RF No 37

In Russian: here. 

 

Announcements

 

Call for video-films! Three winners to visit Geneva

In Russian: http://www.jashtar.kg/index.php/news/245-vnimanie-videokonkurs-troe-pobeditelej-poedut-v-zhenevu. 

 

 


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