News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 23 (2018)

Kyrgyzstan and Turkey intend to simplify migrants employment procedures

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-i-turtciia-namereny-uprostit-protcedury-trudoustroistva-migrantov.

Head of Ministry of Labor and Social Development discussed issues in the field of labor relations with ILO representatives

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/glava-mintruda-i-sotcrazvitiia-s-predstaviteliami-mot-obsudil-voprosy-v-sfere-trudovykh-otnoshenii.

Kyrgyz State Migration Service: Meeting of CIS Migration Bodies Heads Council

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/gossluzhba-migratcii-kr-zasedanie-soveta-rukovoditelei-migratcionnykh-organov-sng.

Migrants remitted more to Kyrgyz Republic. Net remittances amounted to $ 1.4 billion

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/migranty-pereveli-bol-she-deneg-chistyi-ob-em-denezhnykh-perevodov-sostavil-1-4-mlrd.

Russia announced a migration amnesty for some categories of Kyrgyz migrants

In Russian: http://www.ktrk.kg/post/25394/r.

The National Development Strategy of the Kyrgyz Republic for 2018-2040 has been approved

In Russian: here.

Russia and Uzbekistan discussing creation of migration center of Russian Federation in Tashkent

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-11-09--rossija-i-uzbekistan-obsuzhdajut-sozdanie-migracionnogo-centra-rf-v-tashkente-3947.

Putin signed a new concept of migration policy in Russia

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-10-31--putin-podpisal-novuju-koncepciju-migracionnoj-politiki-rossii-3933.

Issues of combating illegal migration in CIS discussed in Bishkek

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2018/11/01/voprosy-borby-s-nezakonnoj-migratsiej-v-sng-obsudyat-v-bishkeke.

UN Migration Agency Estimates 3,114 Deaths from Migration Worldwide in 2018

In English: https://www.iom.int/news/un-migration-agency-estimates-3114-deaths-migration-worldwide-201.

How digitalization can help achieve fair migration

In English: https://www.ilo.org/asia/media-centre/news/WCMS_648541/lang--en/index.ht.

Russiancentric concept? Moscow changing its migration policy

In Russian: http://eurasia.expert/russkotsentrichnaya-kontseptsiya-moskva-menyaet-strategiyu-migratsionnoy-politiki.

Migration policy of Russian Federation: a new semantic content of the Russian world

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-11-08--migracionnaja-politika-rf-novoe-smyslovoe-napolnenie-russkogo-mira-3945.

Crossing all borders. Why will Global Migration Agreement be signed without legal force?

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/31785-perehodjat-vse-granitsy-zachem-budet-podpisan-globalnyj-dogovor-o-migratsii-ne-imejuschij-juridicheskoj-sily.htm.

How migrant money helps Tajikistan survive

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tajikistan/economic/20181109/kak-dengi-migrantov-pomogayut-vizhivat-tadzhikistan.

Increasing number of women and children among labor migrants is the main challenge for sustainable development in Central Asia

In English: http://birduino.kg/ru/pressa/791-rost-kolichestva-zhenshchin-i-detej-sredi-trudovykh-migrantov-glavnyj-vyzov-dlya-ustojchivogo-razvitiya-v-tsentralnoj-azi.

Unregulated labor migration carries the risk of human trafficking, but this danger can be minimized by promoting protection of the rights of migrant workers

In English: http://birduino.kg/ru/pressa/810-nereguliruemaya-trudovaya-migratsiya-neset-riski-torgovli-lyudmi-no-etu-opasnost-mozhno-minimizirovat-prodvigaya-zashchitu-prav-trudovd.

IOM Announces Global Migration Film Festival Screening in Washington DC

In English: https://www.iom.int/news/iom-announces-global-migration-film-festival-screening-washington-d.