News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 35
Date: January 25 – February 7, 2013
Kazakhstan
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Ministry of Labor prepares forecast of labor resources balance for 2013-2017 In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/269752.
Demand for highly qualified personnel in Kazakhstan exceeds supply - labor market analysis In Russian: here.
Youth unemployment down in Astana In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2530822.
4000 vacancies in the health system of Kazakhstan today In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2530428.
Employment of unemployed in Atyrau In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2529913.
66 foreigners in Northern Kazakhstan Oblast held liable for violating immigration laws In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2530013.
Almaty discusses issues of employment and timely payment of wages In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2531198.
Youth unemployment rate reduced five times in Kazakhstan for the last 10 years - S. Abdenov In Russian: http://kazpravda.kz/c/1360216761.
S. Abdenov: 187,000 people participate in the "Employment-2020" Program In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=377191. |
Kyrgyzstan
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Kyrgyz President, UNHCR discuss mixed migration, emergency preparedness, statelessness and refugees In English: here.
Social Fund intends to develop new concept of pension security In Russian: here.
Parliament of Kyrgyzstan insists on creating separate migration ministry In Russian: http://www.24.kg/parlament/146533-v-parlamente-kyrgyzstana-nastaivayut-na-tom-chto.html
Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry offers to approve the immigration quota In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130129/15471.html.
Russia Non-governmental Pension Fund ready to work for migrants from Kyrgyzstan In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-211682-ru.html.
Pension allowance is the main problem of Kyrgyz migrants in Russia In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-212100-ru.html.
Kyrgyzstan leads region in female migrants, report says In English: http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/viewstory.aspx?id=13603.
Kyrgyz authorities may restrict female migration In Russian: http://kazpravda.kz/c/1360232531.
Kyrgyzstan: Labor migrants grapple with russian-language requirement In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66491.
Kyrgyz Diaspora in Russia to have a "hot line" In Russian: here.
Temir Sariev: Negative trade balance of Kyrgyzstan is covered by remittances and informal economy In Russian: http://www.24.kg/economics/146928-temir-sariev-otricatelnyj-torgovyj-balans.html.
Ulan Bekmuratov assists in solving everyday problems of internal migrants In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/news/2012/29_01_13_7.htm.
MPs accuse Migration Department for charging migrants in obtaining work permit In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130129/15462.html.
Migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow under triple control In Russian: here.
Kyrgyzstanis increasingly migrate to Kamchatka and Sakhalin In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130205/15578.html.
More than 41,700 unemployed in the south in 2012 In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7428&Itemid=75.
Mass emigration of population in Jalal-Abad region In Russian: here.
Diplomat tells about successful adaptation of Kyrgyz people in Russian Primorye In Russian: here.
Kyrgyz people offered to open a Trade House in Krasnoyarsk In Russian: here.
Migrants allowed to pay for language tests by installments in in Buryatia In Russian: here.
In 2012, average monthly salary in Kyrgyzstan amounts to 10,566 KGS, increase of 18.6% In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-211576-ru.html.
26% of Kyrgyz migrants living in Russia concentrated in Moscow In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-211781-ru.html.
Migrant-women from Kyrgyzstan lead in number of abortions and abandoned children In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130205/15589.html. |
Tajikistan
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Tajikistan, Russia set to sign migration cooperation agreement in Moscow In Russian: here.
More Tajik minors head to Russia for work In English: http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/viewstory.aspx?id=13579.
Regional Workshop: The regulation of economic migration In Russian: here.
Tajikistan to increase number of Russian language training centers for migrants In Russian: here.
Devonaev: I cannot imagine Tajik society without migration In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/devonaev-ya-ne-mogu-predstavit-tadzhikskoe-obshchestvo-vne-migratsii.
Not the whole volume of remittances sent by migrant workers - Rahimzoda
Sumangul Tagoeva: Low level of life force women of Tajikistan to commit crimes and migrate for labor
Issues of providing medical aid to Tajik labor migrants discussed in St. Petersburg In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-sankt-peterburge-obsuzhdeny-voprosy-okazaniya-medpomoshchi-detyam-tadzhikskikh-migrantov.
Migration Service of Tajikistan introduces "black list" of journalists In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/16582-v-migracionnoy-sluzhbe-tadzhikistana-vveden-chernyy-spisok-zhurnalistov.html.
Tajik authorities want to prevent child labor in Russia In English: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajik-authorities-want-prevent-child-labor-russia.
Legal support to migrants households headed by women: Everything for children - family needs a roof over their heads In Russian: http://www.iom.tj/index.php/news/press-releases/178-aw4.
"Returnees" join the ranks of migrants and unemployed In Russian: here.
Newspaper "Ozodagon" intends to sue Migration Service In Russian: here.
Khujand airport to open "Migrant Corner" In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/16524-v-hudzhandskom-aeroportu-otkroyut-ugolok-migranta.html.
Over 5.5 thousand members of the Soghd NDTP are in labor migration In Russian: here.
About 400 foreigners expelled from Tajikistan last year In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/okolo-400-inostrannykh-grazhdan-vydvoreno-v-2012-godu-iz-tadzhikistana. |
Uzbekistan
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Karimov wakes up to mass emigration of Uzbeks In English: http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/viewstory.aspx?id=13532.
New standards for diagnosis of tuberculosis for immigrants and refugees of USA to be introduced in Uzbekistan In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1055261/ or in the attached file: 01.
Illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan could not adapt in Jewish Autonomous Oblast In Russian: here.
Russian language courses to open for migrants from Uzbekistan in February In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/01/29/Dlya-migrantov-iz-Uzbekistana-otkroyutsya-kursy-po-russkomu-yazyku-333128.
Exhibition shows life of Uzbek migrants in Kazakhstan In Russian: here.
New jobs to be created In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/22143/. |
Russia
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Putin calls to provide good conditions for labor migrants in Russia In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7355&Itemid=74.
FMS receives status of Federal Ministry In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0539/rossia01.php#24.
Deported migrants able to return to Russia after 3 years In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20130125/15407.html.
Migration registration of foreign citizens In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7401&Itemid=47.
Quota on migrants left Moscow without wipers In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-212680-ru.html.
Fund to help migrant workers intend to increase their knowledge of the Russian language In Russian: here.
Free Russian courses in St. Petersburg In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2013/02/07/v_pitere_mozhno_besplatno_uchit_russkiy.
Half a million of legal migrants immigrated to St. Petersburg in 2012 In Russian: here.
Migration Service organizes Hotline In Russian: http://vladimir.mk.ru/news/2013/01/31/805926-migratsionnaya-sluzhba-organizuet-pryamuyu-telefonnuyu-liniyu.html.
Russia's population decline forces to attract migrants In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0539/rossia01.php#4. |
Multilateral
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Yekaterinburg to issue a memo to labor migrants from Central Asia In Russian: here.
HRW: Labor migrants at Sochi Olympic sites face abuse In Russian: here. |
International News
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US may legalize 11 million of immigrants In Russian: http://statuspress.com.ua/international-news/v-ssha-mogut-legalizovat-11-mln-immigrantov.html.
Head of ILO: End of the crisis is still far In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/glava-mot-do-kontsa-krizisa-eshche-daleko. |
Analytics
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P.Bologov: Gastarbeiterstan. Where Uzbeks disappear? In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1359685800.
Paradoxes of Russian migration policy In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7392&Itemid=33.
Hunters of illegal immigrants to be provided tax incentives In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7448&Itemid=75.
Russian language tests for migrants: Has the integration process started? In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7422&Itemid=35.
Who needs your profession? - BBC In Russian: http://korrespondent.net/business/career/1496967-komu-nuzhna-vasha-professiya-bi-bi-si.
Flood of Central Asian migrants transforms Moscow
Migrants cannot afford to stay in tenement houses in St. Petersburg In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7305&Itemid=35.
Migrant workers in Russia are not in a hurry to certify Russian language knowledge In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1359576600.
Kyrgyz entrepreneurs move their shops from MKAD bazars In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7341&Itemid=35.
Testing for migrants In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7325&Itemid=35.
Monitoring of unemployment and labor market In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0539/opros01.php.
Compulsory insurance of migrant workers In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0539/gazeta021.php.
International Seminar on economic migration In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0539/nauka01.php.
Does Russia need foreign workers? In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/analiz_ehksperta/2013-01-28-1516. |
Publications
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New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 3, February 2013 In Russian: here.
New Issue of “Compatriots” № 1, January 2013 In Russian: http://migratsia.ru/blog/vyshel_v_svet_zhurnal_zemljaki_1_janvar_2013_goda/2013-02-06-127.
"Situation" - "Our People" (audio) In Russian: here.
IOM Newsletter (January 2013) In Russian: http://iom.kg/?p=883.
IOM 15 Years in Armenia. Managing migration for the benefit of all In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34&products_id=909.
International Migration, Vol. 51(1) 2013 In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=907. |
Announcements
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Addressing youth, employment and migration issues through joint programming In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/meetings-and-events/events/WCMS_204388/lang--en/index.htm.
Call for contributions to the United Nations World Youth Report 2013 - Youth Migration and Development In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/meetings-and-events/events/WCMS_203437/lang--en/index.htm.
European Commission conference “Exploiting the employment potential of personal and household services” In English: http://www.ilo.org/brussels/meetings-and-events/WCMS_203626/lang--en/index.htm.
Migrant Workers and Business: Challenges and Opportunities In English: http://www.ilo.org/empent/Eventsandmeetings/WCMS_203642/lang--en/index.htm. |
Contacts
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Email: tspc@auca.kg
Address: 7/6 Aaly Tokombaev Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic 720060
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