News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 9 (2018)

Nazarbayev signed amendments on employment and migration issues

In Russian: https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/nazarbaev-podpisal-popravki-voprosam-zanyatosti-migratsii-342188.

Moldova and Kazakhstan strengthen cooperation on combating illegal migration and crime

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-04-19--moldova-i-kazahstan-usilivajut-sotrudnichestvo-po-borbe-s-nezakonnoj-migraciej-i-prestupnostju-3604.

1600 patients with tuberculosis identified among labor migrants in Kazakhstan in 3 years

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/en/1600-bol-nyh-tuberkulezom-trudovyh-migrantov-za-3-goda-vyyavleno-v-kazahstane_a322134.

Citizens of China and Turkey move to Kazakhstan for permanent residence - Kasymov

In Russian: https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/grajdane-kitaya-turtsii-pereezjayut-kazahstan-pmj-kasyimov-342165.

Detention Centers of illegal foreigners plan to build in Kazakhstan

In Russian: https://tengrinews.kz/crime/tsentryi-soderjaniya-nelegalov-inostrantsev-planiruyut-343029.

Migrants from Kyrgyzstan die in construction in Russia

In Russian: here.

Executive Director of International Public Foundation "Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva" Dogdurkul Kendirbayeva attended round table on "Migration and Youth in Central Asia: Using Opportunities for Development"

In Russian: http://roza.kg/2018/04/27/v-astane-v-rabote-kruglogo-stola--migraciya-i-molodezh-v-centralnoy-azii:-ispolzovanie-vozmozhnostey-v-celyah-razvitiya-prinyala-uchastie-ispolnitelnyy-direktor-mof-iniciativa-rozy-otunbaevoy-dogdurkul-kendirbaev.

IOM in Kyrgyzstan holds a camp for migrants, on teaching to protect their rights and interests

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/5973-24-aprelya-mom-v-kyrgyzstane-provodit-lager-dlya-migrantov-gde-ikh-nauchat-zashchishchat-svoi-prava-i-interes.

Migrants transferred $ 307.6 million to Kyrgyzstan in two months

In Russian: here.

Internal Migrants: Head of Osh Public Service Centre, U.Osmonaliev, noted the need for cooperation on registration of internal migrants

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/5993-27-aprelya-vnutrennie-migranty-nachalnik-tson-g-osh-u-osmonaliev-otmetil-neobkhodimost-sotrudnichestva-po-registratsii-vnutrennikh-migranto.

More and more citizens of Kyrgyzstan, who committed crimes at home country hiding in Russia

In Russian: here.

Kyrgyz embassy asks Kyrgyzstanis to behave civilly in Russia

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/society/2408692.htm.

Tajikistan offered Russia to extend stay of Tajik citizens in Russia without registration

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2018/04/23/tadzhikistan-predlozhil-rossii-uvelichit-srok-prebyvaniya-grazhdan-rt-v-rf-bez-registratsii.

Tajik migrants left without a "Leader" in Russia

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/29266-tadzhikskie-migranty-ostalis-bez-lidera-v-rossii.htm.

$ 600 million more: labor migrants transferred more than $ 2.5 billion to Tajikistan.

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/economic/20180417/na-600-mln-bolshe-trudovie-migranti-pereveli-v-tadzhikistan-bolee-25-mlr.

109 thousand citizens of Tajikistan left for labor migration in first quarter - officially

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2018/04/17/za-pervyj-kvartal-v-trudovuyu-migratsiyu-vyehali-109-tys-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-ofitsialno.

Uzbekistan and Russia simplified the granting of patent for migrants

In Russian: https://ru.sputniknews-uz.com/migration/20180426/8054242/uzbekistan-rossiya-patent.html.

Alimuhammedov: Uzbekistan has developed a complex for the adaptation of migrants

In Russian: https://ru.sputniknews-uz.com/radio/20180425/8040654/alimuhammedov-bezopasnost-igranta.html.

State Duma ordered a study on migration and acquisition of Russian citizenship

In English: https://ria.ru/society/20180419/1519029410.htm.

Migration center of Moscow in April launched a new website for foreign citizens and employers

In Russian: https://mc.mos.ru/about/piece-of-news/26.

CSTO countries may agree on fighting illegal migration in autumn

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/strany-odkb-osen-iu-mogut-dogovorit-sia-o-bor-be-s-nelegal-noi-migratciei.

Heads of migration departments of CIS countries to discuss adaptation issues of migrants in the host country

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2018/04/24/glavy-migratsionnyh-vedomstv-stran-sng-obsudyat-voprosy-adaptatsii-migrantov-v-strane-prebyvaniya.

Study: How Extremists Recruit Labor Migrants from Central Asia

In Russian: https://kloop.kg/blog/2018/04/29/issledovanie-kak-ekstremisty-verbuyut-trudovyh-migrantov-iz-tsentralnoj-azii.

Data on illegal migration in Astana called "alarming"

In Russian: https://eng.azattyq.org/a/29169803.htm.

Young people of Kyrgyzstan earn abroad

In Russian: https://eng.azattyk.org/a/kyrgyzstan_job_fair_youth/29176078.htm.

Money is nothing, people are everything. Experts - on the impact of anti-Russian sanctions on labor migration

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/29249-dengi-nichto-ljudi-vse-eksperty-o-vlijanii-antirossijskih-sanktsij-na-trudovuju-migratsiju.htm.

Humanitarian: What does detention of vulnerable migrants lead to?

In Russian: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/gumanitariu.

Labor migrants of the USSR. What were they like?

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/society/20180425/migranti-sssr-kakimi-oni-bil.

Unemployment in Kazakhstan: grenades of the wrong system?

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-04-17--bezrabotica-v-kazahstane-granaty-ne-toj-sistemy-3599.

Why do law enforcement bodies rarely "make friends" with labor migrants?

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-04-24--pochemu-pravoohranitelnye-organy-redko-druzhat-s-trudovymi-migrantami-3613.

Voluntary Health Assessments Promote Safe Migration in Central Asia

In English: https://www.iom.int/news/voluntary-health-assessments-promote-safe-migration-central-asi.

Perspectives | Radicalization among Central Asia’s migrants: Views from the ground

In English: https://eurasianet.org/s/perspectives-radicalization-among-central-asias-migrants-views-from-the-groun.

Instinct of the cuckoo, or why labor migrants abandon healthy children

In Russian: https://ru.sputniknews-uz.com/migration/20180423/8025139/instikt-kukushki-migranti-deti.html.