News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 10

Head of MFA RK: Kazakhstan is in the List of Reduced Risk of Human Trafficking
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:950581/ or here.

Quota for Oralmans immigration stopped
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:950441/ or here.

International Conference and Exhibition on Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection 2012 opens in Astana
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/253794.

Unemployed youth to be engaged in bee farming in Kostanai
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:953261/ or here.

The I World Congress of Kyrgyzstanis and Compatriots under the aegis of the President of Kyrgyz Republic

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38578/729.py.

JK Committee Head A. Keldibekov: Unofficial remittances to Kyrgyzstan reach $ 3 billion annually

In Russian: here.

Kyrgyzstan and Russia continue reviewing migration problems

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/38597/792.py.

J. Otorbaev: 60% of State Budget of Kyrgyzstan – is remittances sent by our migrants

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38569/126.py.

U. Chinaliev gets Highest Award of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RF

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38565/944.py.

Ambassador G.Iskakova: Labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan work illegally in Italy

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:950741/ or here.

Three children abandoned by their parents, Kyrgyz citizens, arrive in from Moscow

In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/news/1335521818/.

Representatives of Kyrgyz Diaspora in Almaty meet JK MPs

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:951811/ or here.

External migration activity slows down in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:951331/ or here.

Because of internal migration and transfer to electric heating electricity utilization increases to 40%, - “Severelektro”

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:950671/ or here.

According to results of the government’s 100 days program it turns out that on paper everyone feels improvement, - MP D.Bekeshev

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:951241/ or here.

Happy Birthday, Tiumen Regional Public Organization “Birimdik”!

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38566/671.py.

Kyrgyzstan citizens having received necessary documents left Orenburg

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/38574/855.py.

Fates of Kyrgyz people in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkey and the I World Congress of Kyrgyzstanis and Compatriots in July 2012

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38568/893.py.

Yekaterinburg hosts Day of Middle Ural Peoples

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/34/38567/398.py.

Case proceedings stops for no evidence of administrative violation

In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/news/1335522678/.

Premier of “Pustoi dom” (‘Empty house’) by Nurbek Egen to be screened in May in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:949861/ or here.

IMF: Gastarbeiters provide third of GDP of Tajikistan
In Russian: here.

Tajikistan and Qatar agree on draft Agreement on labor migration
In Russian: here.

IOM to help Tajikistan set up Retraining Centers for Labor Migrants
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/iom-help-tajikistan-set-retraining-centers-labor-migrants.

Message of Tajikistan President to Parliament to be distributed among migrants
In Russian: here.

Dushanbe discusses future developments of Tajik-Russian cooperation
In Russian: here.

Tojikhorijakor opens office in Russia
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/tojikhorijakor-opens-office-russia.

TNU offers vocational training on Russian language
In Russian: here.

Women entrepreneurship in Tajikistan
In Russian: here.

Labor migrant may become undesirable in Russia
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/labor-migrant-may-become-undesirable-russia.

Will children of Tajik migrants be able to get Russian citizenship in ‘maximally simplified way’?
In Russian: here.

Role of Tajik migrants in contemporary development stage of Russia discussed in Yekaterinburg
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/v-ekaterinburge-obsudili-rol-tadzhikskikh-migrantov-na-sovremennom-etape-razvitiya-rf.

Kulyab labor registry registers 95 amnestied
In Russian: here.

Remittance Volume between Uzbekistan and Russia counted at USD 4.5 billion
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0507/gazeta023a.php.

Uzbekistan must put an end to forced child labor in cotton fields, – Human Rights Watch
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:953041/ or here.

Uzbekistan banks to stop pay remittances in US dollars, - Uzmetronom
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:951261/ or here.

Debt paid off fully to migrants
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/news/1335522242/

Medvedev approves migration policy up to 2025
In Russian: http://krsk.sibnovosti.ru/politics/191390-medvedev-odobril-migratsionnuyu-politiku-do-2025-goda.

Dmitri Medvedev submits to State Duma amendments to the law on Russian citizenship
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/main/1335350730/.

Migration service + Russian government = migration problems solved, - S.Shoigu
In Russian: http://www.work-global.ru/news/58.

Medvedev urges CIS countries to joint fight against illegal migration
In Russian: http://independent-news.ru/?p=26727.

Number of migrants grows every year
In Russian: http://www.vsluh.ru/news/politics/247504.

FMS deported more than 5 thousand illegal migrants out of Russia
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/38572/113.py.

Human rights activists believe that keeping foreigners in special detention center in RF should be more transparent
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/soderzhanie-inostrantsev-v-spetspriemnikakh-v-rf-dolzhno-stat-bolee-prozrachnym-schitayut-pravo.

Education and Science Ministry of RF contriutes its part to improve labor migration situation in the territory of Russia
In Russian: http://www.work-global.ru/news/57.

News check rules in airports introduced in Russia
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38585/621.py.

Russian language tests for migrants is solved issue
In Russian: http://www.work-global.ru/news/55.

“New Moscow” relies on labor forces inflow
In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4207&Itemid=35.

Novosibirsk oblast population grew due to migration
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/news/1335521610/.

Number of registered migrants increase in Samara
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/news/1335442700/.

Migrants and their children to learn Russian in Kalinin raion
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/04/22/Detei-migrantov-i-ikh-roditelei-nauchat-russkomu-yazyku-v-Kalininskom-raione-273920.

Special detention centers for illegal migrants to appear in South Ural
In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4227&Itemid=35.  

Brigadier in Moskoi Fasad construction site attempts “protecting” Gastarbeiter by bribing
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/04/26/Brigadir-stroiki-v-Morskom-fasade-pytalsya-zaschitit-gastarbaiterov-vzyatkoi-274805.

Granat’s deputy commander appointed head of Migrants Temporary Stay Center
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/04/23/Nachalnikom-Tcentra-vremennogo-soderzhaniya-migrantov-stal-zamkomandira-Granita-274144.

IMF: Central Asian labor migrants remittances in 2012 to grow 13% more
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:949781/ or here.

To work in Russia like at home
In Russian: http://www.work-global.ru/news/59.

Gastarbeiter settle in new houses before owners shift in
In Russian: here. 

London may face charges for immigration limits
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/obzor/1335523041/.

Migrants in France to give French language tests
In Russian: http://migrocenter.org/obzor/1335352652/.

Italy authorities toughen sanction against employers hiring illegal migrants
In Russian: http://www.immigrant-press.ru/2012/04/vlasti-italii-uzhestochili-sanktsii-v-otnoshenii-rabotodateley-nanimayushhih-nelegalnyih-migrantov/.

USA-2012: illegal immigration dispute
In Russian: http://wffw.info/568676/s6_2012_spor_o_nelegal_noi_immigracii/.

Feminization of contemporary migration
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4166&Itemid=35.

“Do not take FMS as a law enforcement agency”
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0507/gazeta018.php.

Tolerance and xenophobia in Russian society
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0507/gazeta019.php.

Rights of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan: How to develop an effective policy?
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/6/38593/830.py.

Volunteers of Tajik Migrants Movement left with only hope that dishonest employers feel fear for God and Russian laws
In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/volonteram-dvizheniya-ostaetsya-tolko-nadeyatsya-na-to-chto-u-beschestnyx-rabotodatelej-nakonec-to-prosnetsya-strax-bozhij-i-strax-pered-zakonom-rf.html.

Illegal life
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4187&Itemid=35.

“Labor migration to Russia: how to move further”, authored by Zh.Zaichonkovskaya, E.Tyuryukanova, U.Florinskaya, Special Reports Series, M., Maks Press, 2011, 100 pgs
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0507/biblio05.php 

Internship in International Organization on Migration (IOM) – Tajikistan
In English: here.

World Social Forum on Migration, Manila, Philippine
In English: http://www.wsfm2012.org/about-us/what-is-the-wsfm.