News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 6

Employment Program – 2020 to be improved
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/252172.

Seven thousand participants of Employment Program – to receive 2020 microcredits in 2012
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/251982.

Labor mobility measures to be enhanced within Employment Program – 2020
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/251922.

Freed Kazakh labor lawyer prohibited from activism
In Russian: http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/viewstoryaspx?id=11590.

Bishkek holds negotiations with Russia’s MFA on denouncing agreement on simplified procedure of citizenship acquisition
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/919421 or here.

Message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the KR
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38335/582.py.

New deputies of Minister of Youth, Labor and Employment appointed
In Russian: http://www.jashtar.kg/index.php/news/232-naznacheny-zamestiteli-ministra-molodezhi-truda-i-zanyatosti-kr.

Decree No 122, dated February 20, 2012: On issues of Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment of the KR
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/11/38313/317.py.

IMF: Second wave of world financial crisis may affect Kyrgyzstan
In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/economy/2012/03/14/182086_mvf_vtoraia_volna_ mirovogo_finansovogo_krizisa_mojet_zatronyt_kyrgyzstan.html.

Labor Ministry develops Youth Policy 2012-2015
In Russian: http://www.knews.kg/ru/society/12572/.

Ombudsman of KR to monitor Kyrgyz labor migrants’ human rights realization
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/38329/348.py.

Bishkek Mayor’s Office intends to ‘erase division’ between Bishkek and settlements according to Program 2012-2014

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/920221 or here.

NGO blames parties in using unemployed youth and women
In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/politics/2012/03/13/181946_npo_obviniaet_partii_v _ispolzovanii_bezrabotnoy_molodeji_i_jenshin.html.

Bishkek to hold series of documentaries on development of poor and vulnerable groups in the world
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/917571 or here.

90 thousand illegal Chinese stay in Kyrgyzstan
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/panorm01.php#24.

MSLU holds open class on Manas epic for students learning Kyrgyz language
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38342/791.py.

Kyrgyz migrant workers abroad need help
In English: http://www.timesca.com/index.php/m-news-by-category/politics-analyses-and-opinions/5857-kyrgyz-migrant-workers-abroad-need-help.

Dinara Asanalieva: Main reasons for growing number of homeless people are unemployment, internal migration, divorces
In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/123684-diana-asanalieva-v-kyrgyzstane-osnovnymi.html.

Celebration of Noruz in Bremen
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38294/405.py.

Tajikistan migration service agency to open its office in Kazakhstan
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/tajikistan-migration-service-agency-open-its-office-kazakhstan.

Devonaev: There is a necessity of preparing human resources to serve demands of employer-states
In Russian:http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/06/devonaev_nazrela_neobkhodimost_ podgotovki_kadrov_s_uchetom_trebovaniy_gosudarstv_trudoustroystva.

Climate Migration Poses Growing Threat – ADB
In English: http://www.timesca.com/index.php/m-news-by-category/politics-analyses-and-opinions/5906-climate-migration-poses-growing-threat-adb.

Tajik envoy, Qatari minister discuss labor migration cooperation issues
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/tajik-envoy-qatari-minister-discuss-labor-migration-cooperation-issues. 

Status of Chinese labor migrants in Tajikistan discussed in Dushanbe
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/status-chinese-labor-migrants-tajikistan-discussed-dushanbe.

Expert: Only a quarter of salary is sent home by Tajik migrants
In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1284.

Tajikistan may face instability in 2012/13
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/918421 or here.

Training IT-specialists among potential migrants discussed in Tajikistan
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/919271 or here.

Tajik MS Representative Office in RF helps labor migrants receive due salary
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/predstavitelstvo-ms-tadzhikistana-v-rf-pomoglo-trudovym-migrantam-poluchit-prichitayushchiesya-.

Altai delegation visits North of Tajikistan
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/13/delegaciya_altayskogo_kraya_posetila_ sever_tadzhikistana.

Roundtable “Tajik diaspora: economic and cultural potential of Russia” held in Moscow
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/13/v_moskve_proshel_kruglyy_stol_tadzhikskaya_ diaspora_ekonomicheskiy_i_kul_turnyy_potencial_rossii.

Tajik students to create information resource in St. Petersburg
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/13/tadzhikskie_studenty_v_sankt_peterburge_ namereny_sozdat_svoy_informacionnyy_resurs..

Tajik Diaspora in France to celebrate Navruz under Eifel Tower
In Russian:
http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/13/tadzhikskaya_diaspora_v_francii_otmetit_ navruz_pod_eyfelevoy_bashney..

Potential of Tajik Diaspora
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/12/potencial_tadzhikskoy_diaspory.

RF drug control service head proposes four measures to regulate labor migration
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/12/glava_fskn_rossii_predlagaet_chetyre_ mery_dlya_uporyadocheniya_trudovoy_migracii.

RF expands power of constituents
In Russian: http://www.klerk.ru/law/news/267500/.

Drug control service: We should ban entry into RF on internal passports
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/11/FSKN-Nado-vvesti-zapret-na-vezd-v-RF-po-vnutrennim-pasportam-264903. 

Individuals violated migration registration rules may be deported out of Russia
In Russian: http://prokrf.ru/47212.

“Strategy 2020”: Migration quota system does not reflect employers demands
In Russian: http://www.openexpo.ru/news/4500.html.

Moscow makes up a Black List of companies for migrants
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/gazeta017.php. 

Petersburg’s system of adaptation of migrants does not work
In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1287.

Best Tolerance Symbol winners to be awarded in Petersburg
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/17/V-Peterburge-nagradyat-pobeditelei-konkursa-na-luchshuyu-simvoliku-tolerantnosti-266204.

Migration growth in Russia makes 320 thousand people in 2011 according to new registration rules, old rules only count 107
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/barom01.php.

Number of migrants moved within Russian Federation in 2011 exceeds 3 million according to new rules of registration, old rules count a million less
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/barom03.php.

In the end of third quarter of 2011 1032 thousand foreigners obtained work permit in Russia
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/barom05.php.

Population of all constituents of Federation continued to grow due to migration exchange with CIS countries, but population of majority of constituents decreased due to migration exchange within regions of Russia
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/barom04.php. 

Onishenko defines capital as ‘foul’
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/gazeta013.php. 

Future Russians
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/gazeta016.php. 

Number of labor patents grows five times in one year
In Russian: http://www.eg-online.ru/news/162800/.

Transit is closed: Number of illegal migrants decreases
In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2012/03/16/migraciya.html.

Specialists develop applications “Illegal migrant” for mobile phones
In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/piter/2012/03/13/956825.html. 

Krasnoyarsk witnesses growing inflow of migrants
In Russian: http://www.dela.ru/lenta/56217/. 

Vacated but not deserted: what houses are occupied by Moscow illegal workers
In Russian: http://news.zem.ru/news/7309/. 

Illegal Gastarbeiter detained in sewage treatment construction works in Motornyi
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/16/Na-stroitelstve-vodoochistnykh-sooruzhenii-v-Motornom-rabotali-nelegalnye-gastarbaitery-266005.

‘Korean cabbage’ was made by Gastarbeiter in insanitary conditions
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/16/Koreiskuyu-kapustu-na-prodazhu-gastarbaitery-gotovili-v-antisanitarnykh-usloviyakh-265996. 

Prosecutor’s Office checks migrants at construction sites of Central region
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/11/Prokuratura-proverila-migrantov-na-stroikakh-Tcentralnogo-raiona-265024. 

Petersburg café closed for 10 days for one illegal worker
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/11/Peterburgskoe-kafe-zakryli-na-10-sutok-iz-za-nelegalnoi-rabotnitcy-264985.

Court decides to deport Gastarbeiter
In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/piter/2012/03/16/958199.html. 

Organizer of illegal migration fined for 50 thousand rubles
In Russian: http://www.superomsk.ru/news/detail.php?ID=28428.

Moscow creates expert group to work with ethnic diasporas in Russia
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/13/v_moskve_budet_sozdana_ekspertnaya_ gruppa_po_rabote_s_etnicheskimi_diasporami_rossii.

Due to visa-free regime in post-Soviet space all labor migrants came to Russia legally
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/s_uchjotom_otsutstviya_viz_na_postsovetskom_ prostranstve_vse_trudovye_migranty_priekhali_v_rossiyu_sovershenno_zakonno.

Russia records highest migration exchange with Uzbekistan in 2003-2011 – 274 thousand
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/barom02.php.

Kurgan researchers investigate if there are migrants who wish to learn Russian language
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38338/50.py.

Research: number of Christian migrants higher than Muslim migrants
In Russian: http://islamrf.ru/news/world/w-news/20903/.

Omsk FMS meets employers and national diaspora representatives
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38322/500.py.

Moscow: decent salary for migrants?
In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/moskva-dostojnuyu-zarplatu-migrantam.html.

Nigora Bukhari-zade: More women among migrants
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/11/Nigora-Bukhari-zade-Sredi-migrantov-vse-bolshe-stanovitsya-zhenschin-264999.

Tajikistan: poverty encourages early marriages
In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65075.

‘Great Migration Power’ through the eyes of an expert
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/lisa01.php.

Shock workers of our construction sites
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0501/gazeta018.php.