News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 99

Astana discussed the problems of refugee protection and migration in Central Asia

In Russian: https://www.mzsr.gov.kz/node/329491.

Net migration in Astana since the beginning of 2015 amounted to 556 people

In Russian: http://vlast.kz/novosti/12088-migracionnyj-prirost-naselenia-astany-s-nacala-2015-goda-sostavil-556-celovek.html.

Since the beginning of the year over 14 thousand people arrived in Astana

In Russian: http://24.kz/ru/novosti2/obshchestvo/item/75126-s-nachala-goda-v-astanu-pribylo-svyshe-14-tysyach-chelovek.

Round table “Cooperation of government agencies and NGOs to protect the rights of migrant workers” held in Bishkek

In Russian: here.

Measures to improve the protection of migrants' rights discussed in Bishkek

In Russian: http://vof.kg/?p=25249.

Kyrgyzstan called for a taking advantage of the benefits offered by Russia

In Russian: here.

Sarpashev: Biometrics pointed at the real picture of internal and external migration

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/migranty/item/5981-sarpashev-biometriya-pokazala-realnuyu-kartinu-vnutrenney-i-vneshney-migratsii.html.

Ministry of Labor helped migrant in receiving compensation in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/news/27120308.html.

Kyrgyz citizens entering Russia allowed to be registered at the Federal Migration Service in one month

In Russian: here.

More than 530 jobs offered for youth in Bishkek regular job fair

In Russian: here.

Russia brings out from the blacklist about 49 thousand Kyrgyz migrants

In Russian: here.

Issues of external labor migration discussed in Batken

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-331058-ru.html.

NISS discussed the impact of the economic situation in Russia on migration in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.nisi.kg/ru-news-1412.

Ministry of Labor: Families of migrant workers eventually stop working

In Russian: here.

Alisher Madanbekov: It is necessary to create favorable conditions for migrants at the legislative level

In Russian: here.

Aydarov: workers are reaping the first fruits of Kyrgyzstan accession to the EAEC

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-332837-ru.html.

NISS Expert: ruble devaluation significantly reduced remittances from Russia in dollar terms

In Russian: http://www.nisi.kg/ru-news-1413.

Airlines of Kyrgyzstan record decline of passenger traffic due to the decrease in the number of labor migrants working in Russia

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-332368-ru.html.

NISS Expert: in the years 2015-2017 the number of migrants from Kyrgyzstan is expected to reduce

In Russian: http://www.nisi.kg/ru-news-1414.

Head of the Ministry of Labor: number of Tajikistan citizens who left for labor migration reduced

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/glava-mintruda-chislo-vyekhavshikh-v-trudovuyu-migratsiyu-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-sokratilos.

The trend of decline in remittances of Tajik migrant workers continues

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/tendentsiya-sokrashcheniya-denezhnykh-perevodov-tadzhikskikh-migrantov-prodolzhaetsya.

Centre for recruitment of Tajik citizens for employment in enterprises of St. Petersburg opened in Dushanbe

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/07/23/v-dushanbe-otkryt-centr-po-naboru-grazhdan-rt-dlya-osushestvleniya-trudovoy-deyatelnosti-na-predpriyatiyakh-sankt-peterburga.

Tajikistan demands pensions for their migrant workers from Russia

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2015/07/18/tadzhikistan-trebuet-ot-rossii-pensii-dlya-svoikh-trudovykh-migrantov.

Dictionaries and handbooks issued for migrants from Tajikistan

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/dlya-migrantov-iz-tadzhikistana-vypustili-slovari-i-spravochniki.

Volume of remittances to Tajikistan for six months fell by 32%

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/obem-denezhnykh-perevodov-v-tadzhikistan-za-polgoda-snizilsya-na-32.

About 5.5 thousand foreigners received work permits in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/34109-v-tadzhikistane-razresheniya-na-rabotu-poluchili-okolo-55-tys-inostrancev.html.  

Flow of immigrants from Uzbekistan dries up

In Russian: http://www.vesti.uz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51687.

Control of internal and external migration to strengthen in Tashkent

In Russian: here.

Procedures for legalization of labor migrants

In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1145&Itemid=1.

Citizens of CIS countries started increasingly travel to Russia for work visas

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/588600.

Foreign specialists are leaving Russia

In Russian: http://echo.msk.ru/news/1588180-echo.html.

Hike for a patent: how workers are gaining the right to work in Russia

In Russian: http://daily.rbc.ru/photoreport/20/07/2015/559d741a9a79472647b32eef.

Guides and phrasebooks for exams to hand out for migrants

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/589004.

On Russian language examination immigrants allowed to use dictionaries

In Russian: here.

Patents system for foreigners brought Russia 50 billion rubles for six months

In Russian: http://vz.ru/news/2015/7/22/757479.html.

Application "Russia for all" in the Tajik downloaded more than 10,000 times

In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20150720/1138088459.html. 

Documents on Labor, Migration and Social Protection of CIS agreed in Minsk

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/migranty/item/6014-dokumenty-po-trudu,-migratsii-i-sotsialnoy-zaschite-naseleniya-sng-soglasovany-v-minske.html.

Stay impossible to leave

In Russian: http://kapital.kz/gosudarstvo/42017/ostatsya-nelzya-uehat.html.

Ambassador to Russia Dzhunusov: Migrants should take care of their future

In Russian: here.

Migrants are beginning to rise in price

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/migranty/item/5920-migranty-nachinayut-dorozhat.html.

Labor migration from Tajikistan in figures

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/trudovaya-migratsiya-iz-tadzhikistana-v-tsifrakh.

Only 100,000 Tajiks left for permanent residence abroad, - says government

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1436510700.

How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State

In English: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/how-russias-labor-migration-policy-is-fueling-the-islamic-state/2015/07/08/15b9300e-1141-11e5-a0fe-dccfea4653ee_story.html.

Migrants. Registration and deportation

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/27137691.html.

Head of Russian FMS does not see any point in immigration amnesty and pleased with the patent system

In Russian: here.

Myths about migrants: do visitors interfere Russians

In Russian: here.

Investigation of RBC: who earn on migrants

In Russian: http://top.rbc.ru/politics/20/07/2015/55a269449a7947fa0ba06593.

FMS says millions of migrants in Russia - "NG"

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1437626280. 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 14, July 2015

In Russian: here.

New Issue of “Compatriots” № 7, July 2015

In Russian: here.

Migration Policy Practice (Vol. V, Number 2, April-June 2015)

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=50&products_id=1506.

NISS hosts a roundtable "The economic situation in Russia and its impact on migration processes in Kyrgyzstan"

In Russian: http://www.nisi.kg/ru-news-1407.