News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 3 (2017)

In 2016, more than 36.7 thousand work permits for foreigners issued in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/ru/node/343385.

In 2016, most migrant workers in Kazakhstan came from China

In Russian: https://vlast.kz/novosti/21757-v-2016-godu-bolse-vsego-trudovyh-migrantov-v-kazahstan-pribylo-iz-kitaa.html. 

Remittances inflow in 2016 amounted to almost $ 2 billion - 30% of GDP

In Russian: https://www.akchabar.kg/news/pritok-denezhnyh-perevodov-v-2016-godu-sostavil-pochti-2-mlrd-30-vvp/.

More than 600 thousand Kyrgyz citizens working in Russia, more than 110 thousand in Kazakhstan

In Russian: here.

Informational meetings with internal migrants on the registration of temporary registration to be held in Osh

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/4081-9-fevralya-v-oshe-projdut-informatsionnye-vstrechi-s-vnutrennimi-migrantami-po-voprosam-oformleniya-vremennoj-registratsii.

Reforms in the migration field require of the Government of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

Situation of migrant workers improved

In Russian: http://www.ktrk.kg/post/10840/ru.

Vice Prime Minister noted weak work of State Migration Service

In Russian: here.

During the first 9 months of 2016 in Kyrgyzstan arrived 2,3 thousand people for permanent residence

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-410071-ru.html.

More than 14 thousand quotas for foreign labor in the Kyrgyz Republic provided for 2017

In Russian: here.  

Tajikistan offered Russia to consider the legalization of illegal immigrants

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2017/02/09/tadzhikistan-predlozhil-rossii-rassmotret-vopros-o-legalizatsii-nelegalnyh-migrantov/.

Imbalance on the labor market in Tajikistan "washes out" of the country professionals

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2017/02/15/nesbalansirovannost-rynka-truda-v-tadzhikistane-vymyvaet-iz-strany-spetsialistov/.

ILO to Help Tajikistan with Developing National OSH Programme

In English: http://www.ilo.org/moscow/news/WCMS_544726/lang--en/index.htm.

South Korea is not waiting for Tajik migrants

In Russian: http://rus.ozodi.org/a/28301496.html.

Tajikistan Needs More and Better Jobs, says World Bank

In English: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/02/14/new-world-bank-report-highlights-need-for-more-and-better-jobs-in-tajikistan.

Uzbekistan and Russia set to resolve labor migration issues

In Russian: http://www.uzdaily.uz/articles-id-31523.htm. 

Russians against the simplification of the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship by CIS residents

In Russian: https://vlast.kz/novosti/21734-rossiane-protiv-uprosenia-procedury-polucenia-grazdanstva-rossii-zitelami-sng.html.

EAEU is finalizing a draft agreement on pensions for workers

In Russian: https://vlast.kz/novosti/21669-eaes-zaversaet-razrabotku-proekta-dogovora-o-pensionnom-obespecenii-trudasihsa.html.

Migrants from the EAEU countries without labor contracts to be deported from Russia

In Russian: here. 

New report highlights opportunities and challenges of expanding telework

In English: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_544108/lang--en/index.htm.

Work period of Kazakhstanis in EAEU countries to take into account in planning pensions

In Russian: http://24.kz/ru/news/economyc/item/162757-pri-oformlenii-pensii.

Experts about xenophobia in Russia: the rejection of migrants as a relic of the past

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/23960-eksperty-o-ksenofobii-v-rossii-neprijatie-migrantov-kak-perezhitok-proshlogo.html.

A comprehensive exam for migrants in Russia: instructions for use

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/23968-kompleksnyj-ekzamen-dlja-migrantov-v-rossii-instruktsija-po-primeneniju.html.

Migrant workers travel to the Russian "shadow"

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/politics/2017-02-06/3_6921_.html.

Majority of migrants from Central Asia do no use in Russia education received at home

In Russian: http://stanradar.com/news/full/24008-bolshinstvo-migrantov-iz-tsentralnoj-azii-ne-ispolzujut-v-rossii-poluchennoe-na-rodine-obrazovanie.html.

Russia to toughen requirements for migrants

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/a/28297076.html.

To Turkey, for money ... and the problems

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/a/28281186.html.

Kyrgyzstanis not diminished in the "black list" of Russia

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/a/28281270.html.

EAEU Labor market and migration

In Russian: http://www.kazpravda.kz/fresh/view/trudovoi-rinok-eaes-i-migratsiya/.

Migrant Mother: At least our children would not come through what we saw

In Russian: http://www.gezitter.org/migranty/57702_mat-migrantka_pust_nashi_deti_ne_uvidyat_togo_chto_perenesli_myi/.

Regional roundtable of high-level experts: "Social and economic impact of migration: the vulnerability of migrants and the need for (re) integration in Central Asia"

In Russian: http://iom.kz/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/239-pressreleaseru.

Vacany notice: Programme Assistant

In English: http://iom.kz/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/240-vnpa.