American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 95

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 95

Date:  May 15 - 28, 2015  

Kazakhstan

 

As part of the AEF international experts discussed employment

In Russian: https://www.mzsr.gov.kz/node/327655.

 

With the opening of the borders flow of migrant workers from Russia and Belarus to Kazakhstan increased significantly

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2778538.

 

More than 350 migrants in NKR since the beginning of the year got a job

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2776413.

 

Dozens of migrant workers detained in Almaty region

In Russian: http://rus.azattyq.org/archive/news-azattyq/20150519/360/360.html?id=27024461.

 

The KTZ informed about discounts for tickets to Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2781780.

 

More than 400 illegal migrants from Uzbekistan detained in South Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/events/400-nezakonnyih-migrantov-uzbekistana-zaderjali-yuko-275168/.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

International conference on "Migration in Central Asia" to host in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-322794-ru.html.

 

Ministry of Labor: Employment of Kyrgyzstanis in Korea is beneficial to both countries

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/migranty/item/5414-mintruda-trudoustroystvo-kyrgyzstantsev-v-koree-vygodno-dlya-obeih-stran.html.

 

President: Kyrgyzstan asks for migrants in the Russian blacklist

In Russian: here.

 

Entering the EAEU changes for the better situation of remittances from the Russian Federation

In Russian: here.

 

ADB: In 2015 expected decline in international remittances to Kyrgyzstan by 15%

In Russian: http://vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=33985:abr-v-2015-godu-ozhidaetsya-spad-mezhdunarodnyih-perevodov-v-kyirgyizstan-na-15&Itemid=79.

 

More than 33 thousand migrants moved from Kazakhstan in the first quarter

In Russian: https://news.mail.ru/inworld/kazakhstan/society/22042756/.

 

More than 20 thousand Kyrgyzstanis received a patent for a job in Russia in 2015

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-322171-ru.html.

 

Ministry of Labor provided 10 Chinese citizens false patents on business last year

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/41826/826.py.

 

Labor Ministry of Kyrgyzstan and Korea hold talks on the extension of the memorandum, which allows to send citizens to work to Korea

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41905/561.py.

 

Jokorku Kenesh and PACE discuss migration issues in Central Asia

In Russian: here.

 

Eurasian Economic Commission is finalizing the Agreement on pensions of workers of the EAEU Member States

In Russian: here.

 

Lawyer urges Kyrgyz, traveling to Germany, not to sign the controversial contract

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41909/594.py.

 

Deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh and the Kyrgyz diaspora in Moscow discussed the issues of labor migration and "black lists"

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41907/584.py.

 

Remittances fell by 37% in four months

In Russian: here.

 

Embassy: 40% of Work & Travel program participants stay illegally in the United States

In Russian: here.

 

Approximately 200-250 thousand Kyrgyz labor migrants are citizens of Russia

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41900/174.py.

 

More often children of migrants do not attend school

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20150521/23250.html.

 

 

Tajikistan

 

Tajikistan ties reduction of migrants outflow to toughening of Russian legislation

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikistan-svyazyvaet-snizhenie-ottoka-svoikh-migrantov-s-uzhestocheniem-rossiiskogo-zakonoda.

 

Dushanbe and Moscow again discussed the issue of amnesty of deported Tajik migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/dushanbe-i-moskva-snova-obsudili-vopros-ob-amnistii-deportirovannykh-tadzhikskikh-migrantov.

 

Tajikistan conducts the operation "Illegal-2015"

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/05/21/v-tadzhikistane-prokhodit-operaciya-%E2%80%9Cnelegal-2015%E2%80%9D.

 

In Khujand conducted market monitoring of the unemployed

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/05/19/v-khudzhande-proveden-monitoring-rynka-bezrabotnykh.

 

More than 61,500 new jobs created in Tajikistan in Jan-Apr this year

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-tadzhikistane-s-nachala-goda-sozdano-okolo-62-tys-novykh-rabochikh-mest.

 

Within four months 56 foreigners expelled from Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/za-chetyre-mesyatsa-iz-tadzhikistana-vydvoreno-56-inostrantsev.

 

Former spokesman of Rahmon assembled "History of Russia" for migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/05/19/eks-press-sekretar-e-rakhmona-sostavil-istoriyu-rossii-dlya-trudovykh-migrantov.

 

Students of FEIT were told how migration destroys family

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/05/18/top-10-vuzov-rt-studentam-feit-rasskazali-kak-migraciya-rushit-semi.

 

Public Council of Tajikistan discusses labor migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/obshchestvennyi-sovet-tadzhikistana-obsuzhdaet-voprosy-trudovoi-migratsii.

 

Tajik migrants in Russia urged to join the "Islamic state"

In Russian: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2735729.

 

IRP leader predicts an increase in migration flows from Tajikistan to Europe

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/lider-pivt-prognoziruet-uvelichenie-migratsionnogo-potoka-iz-tadzhikistana-v-evropu.

 

World Bank predicts Tajikistan 40% drop in remittances

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/vsemirnyi-bank-prognoziruet-tadzhikistanu-40-noe-padenie-obema-denezhnykh-perevodov.

 

Workers from Tajikistan to Russia decreased by 20%

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/society/12647954.

 

About 60 thousand Tajik citizens received passport without leaving Russia

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/05/26/okolo-60-tys-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-poluchili-zagranpasporta-ne-vyezzhaya-iz-rossii.

 

Construction Company in Samara offers a job for Tajik migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/stroitelnaya-kompaniya-v-samare-priglashaet-na-rabotu-tadzhikskikh-migrantov.

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

 

Youth employment - current issue

In Russian: http://www.gov.uz/ru/news/view/1648.

 

 

Russia

 

Migrants pass State Russian

In Russian: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2730421.

 

Representatives of Russia and Kyrgyzstan discuss in Sochi problems of migrant workers

In Russian: http://kubantv.ru/rossija/95941-predstaviteli-rossii-i-kirgizii-obsudiat-v-sochi-problemy-trudovykh-migrantov/.

 

Control over legal and illegal migrant workers improves

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/community/12425232.

 

Since the beginning of year 165 thousand patents issued for migrants in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/economy/1924568.html#ixzz3aCuq51VH.

 

Moscow authorities will raise the cost of patents for migrant workers in case of unemployment increase

In Russian: http://tass.ru/moskva/1979793.

 

FMS: Without attracting migrants Russia's economic development is almost impossible

In Russian: http://kgd.ru/news/economy/item/44027-fms-bez-privlecheniya-migrantov-jekonomicheskoe-razvitie-rossii-prakticheski-nevozmozhno.

 

FMS: Migrants in Russia ceased to "accumulate"

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/news/504658.html.

 

FMS softens the conditions for the legalization of migrants

In Russian: http://migrant.ru/utro-fms-smyagchit-usloviya-legalizacii-dlya-migrantov/.

 

Russian Foreign Minister: issues of illegal migration should be resolved taking into account the consequences

In Russian: http://migrant.ru/mid-rf-voprosy-nezakonnoj-migracii-nado-reshat-s-uchetom-posledstvij/.

 

FMS notes the effectiveness of the ban on entry into Russia for migrants

In Russian: http://tass.ru/obschestvo/1993012.

 

 

Multilateral

 

Workers from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Russia are entitled to the same social benefits as the Russians

In Russian: here.

 

IMF predicts Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan double-digit inflation

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/exussr/2015/05/19/1399478.html.

 

 

International News

 

EU Commission adopted a resolution on migration

In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1923907.html#ixzz3aCwEaruK.

 

Britain introduces new measures against illegal immigration

In Russian: https://news.mail.ru/politics/22100192/.

 

 

Analytics

 

Most of all on Kyrgyzstan's accession to CU and the EAEU benefit farmers and migrant workers

In Russian: http://newdaynews.ru/asia/533470.html.

 

Abandoned children of migrants

In Russian: http://asiarussia.ru/news/7538/.

 

Ban on entry to Russia

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41840/603.py.

 

Migrant: A few about problems

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/41831/110.py.

 

Forced migration

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2015/04/20/1390651.html.

 

"Such is the Kirghiz-town"

In Russian: http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/05/18/migration/.

 

Kyrgyzstan: long-awaited relief for migrants delayed

In Russian: here.

 

Niyazalieva: One in five pregnant died - migrant

In Russian: here.

 

Migrants do not need medical policy

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/586380.

 

What will change for Kyrgyz migrants after the ratification of the Treaty of Accession to the EAEU?

In Russian: here.

 

Tajik migrants - against the immigration rules of the Russian Federation, says the BBC

In Russian: here.

 

Migrant crisis worsens in Southeast Asia

In English: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/05/18/exp-i-desk-robyn-curnow-william-lacy-swing.cnn.

 

MTT decided to capitalize on migrant workers

In Russian: http://top.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/26/05/2015/5564713c9a79476546461bf5.

 

Arstanbek Sargaldaev: "Do not try to return the migrants now"

In Russian: http://www.limon.kg/news:65982.

 

Does the fate of migrants make the tip of the power think?

In Russian: here.

 

Migrants prefer to be treated by "their own"

In Russian: http://opec.ru/1828553.html.

 

West is drowning in a wave of migration

In Russian: here.

 

Second marriage of migrants becomes an argument for the introduction of polygamy in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

Alexander Zhelenin "Neither Russia nor Moscow without migrants will not live"

In Russian: http://www.ethnoinfo.ru/statji/intervju/2142-aleksandr-zhelenin-lni-rossija-ni-moskva-bez-migrantov-zhit-ne-budutr.

 

IWPR Tajikistan: Wives of migrants

In Russian: http://www.cabar.asia/main-ru/31-ru-ru/radio/radio-tj-ru/287-iwpr-tajikistan-zheny-migrantov.

 

Tajikistan: migration, assimilation - H.Sidzhoudinov

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1432626540.

 

Kyrgyzstan: Migrant workers now account for the appearance of the nation? - Ural Tunas

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1432502940.

 

 

Publications

 

New issue of "Voice of Tajik", "Ovozi Tochikistoniho" № 78

In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/vyshel-v-svet-novyj-78-nomer-gazety-golos-tadzhikistancev-%E2%80%9Dovozi-tochikistonixo%E2%80%9D.html%22.

 

New issue of IOM Moscow Newsletter № 32, January - April,2015

In English: http://moscow.iom.int/newsletters/ne32.pdf.

 

Labor migrants in St Petersburg: disease awareness, behavioral risks and counseling by health professionals in building up prevention against TB, HIV and associated infections

In English: http://moscow.iom.int/publications/Journal_of_Public_Health_2015.pdf.

 

 

Announcements

 

The Summer School on Migration Studies 2015

In English: http://www.iom.cz/home/the-summer-school-on-migration-studies-2015.

 

11th Migration Summer School

In English: http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/event/11th-migration-summer-school/.

 

   


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