News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 11 (2019)

Kyrgyzstan and Japan building relationships in employment

In Russian: https://www.akchabar.kg/ru/news/KR-i-Yaponiya-vystraivayut-otnosheniya-v-sfere-trudoustroystva/.

Ministry of Health proposes to create a database of infectious diseases among labor migrants

In English: https://eabr.org/press/news/minzdrav-predlagaet-sozdat-bazu-dannykh-infektsionionkhkh-zabolevaniy-sredi-trudovykh-migrantov/.

Kyrgyzstan proposes to simplify procedure of registering migrants in Russia

In Russian: here.

MP proposes to create a Public Council on Migration and Diaspora Affairs at the Jogorku Kenesh

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/deputat-predlagaet-sozdat-obshchestvennyi-sovet-po-migratcii-i-delam-diaspor-pri-zhogorku-keneshe.

MP offers to replenish budget by issuing patents for work to citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/deputat-zhk-predlagaet-popolnit-biudzhet-za-schet-vydachi-grazhdanam-ruz-i-rt-patentov-na-rabotu.

Increase in crime among youths associated with migration

In Russian: here.

More than 105 thousand Kyrgyz citizens took advantage of migration amnesty in Russia

In Russian: here.

Work on registration of internal and external migrants to intensify in Osh

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/v-oshe-usiliat-rabotu-po-registratcii-vnutrennikh-i-vneshnikh-migrantov.

Batken oblast leads among the regions to create new jobs - statistics

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/batkenskaia-oblast-vyshla-vpered-sredi-regionov-po-sozdaniiu-novykh-rabochikh-mest-statistika.

MFA: “Compatriots abroad who in a difficult situation are under protection”

In Russian: https://www.gazeta.uz/ru/2019/05/30/mfa.

Meeting between IOM Moscow Chief of Mission and First Deputy-Minister of the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation

In English: http://moscow.iom.int/en/news/meeting-between-iom-moscow-chief-mission-and-first-deputy-minister-ministry-interior-russia.

Prikhodko: 2.5 million citizens of Uzbekistan come to Russia every year

In Russian: https://ria.ru/20190530/1555088406.htm.

CIS countries parliamentarians discussed draft laws on labor and migration

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2019/05/31/parlamentarii-stran-sng-obsudili-zakonoproekty-v-sfere-truda-i-migratsii.

US and Mexico concluded a migration agreement

In Russian: https://vlast.kz/novosti/33617-ssa-i-meksika-zaklucili-migracionnoe-soglasenie.htm.

UNICEF: more than 277 thousand children in Kyrgyzstan left without parental care due to labor migration

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/29976946.htm.

The state is obliged to solve migrants’ problems. They deserve it, - expert

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2019/05/31/gosudarstvo-obyazano-reshat-problemy-migrantov-oni-etogo-zasluzhivayut-ekspert.

Yangiabad - territory of "Zero". Why cities of Uzbekistan become empty, and millions go on abroad. Video

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/yangiabad-territoriya-zero-poche.

I am a migrant woman, or from whom to wait for help: how a pregnant Uzbek woman worked in Kazakhstan. Video

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/ya-migrantka-ili-otkuda-zhdat-pomo.