American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 66

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 66

   Date: April 04 – 17, 2014   

Kazakhstan

 

Kazakhstan approves rules on permissions issue for labor immigrants

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4613474-v-kazakhstane-utverzhdeny-pravila.html.

 

More simplify the migration regime between Russia and Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.newtimes.kz/politika/item/656-eshche-bolee-uprostitsya-migratsionnyj-rezhim-mezhdu-kazakhstanom-i-rossiej.

 

Individuals can recruit no more than 5 workers at one time from April of this year

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4616996-ne-bolee-5-migrantov-odnovremenno-mogut.html.

 

Illegal aliens in the Republic of Kazakhstan will pay more than 4.6 million tenge fines

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/198480/.

 

Number of arrivals in Kazakhstan increased by 3.2% - A.Smailov

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/198602/.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

  Kyrgyzstan is included in the Global Program on Migration   

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/society/full/74550.

 

IOM in Kyrgyzstan initiates a new approach to work with the employer

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74446.

 

Program to increase the positive and decrease the negative effects of labor migration launched in Kyrgyzstan in 2014

In Russian: http://camplatform.org/?p=2139.

 

Big public council strengthens the link between migrants and the state

In Russian: http://camplatform.org/?p=2154.

 

The problem of Kyrgyz labor migrants in Russia - non-system policy assistance for them

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74456.

 

Time to create "green jobs" in Kyrgyzstan - Svetlana Semenova

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74448.

 

Alexey Krasin "Annual growth in remittances to Kyrgyzstan from labor migrants is estimated at about 17-18%"

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/economics/full/71107.

 

Migrants compared with blind kittens

In Russian: here.

 

Russian trade unions are called opponents of labor migration

In Russian: here.

 

Svetlana Semenova: "If labor migration affects the scope of the employment relationship, this is area of trade unions activity"

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74436.

 

Federation of Trade Unions: We are interested in curbing migration

In Russian: here.

 

Leaving to work in Russia, migrants from Kyrgyzstan should check  their name in the "black list" of the FMS

In Russian: http://pda.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74458.

 

Remittances from Kyrgyz labor migrants are not only for consumption, but also as an investment

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/176441-denezhnye-perevody-ot-kyrgyzskix-trudovyx.html.

 

Remittances from abroad to Kyrgyzstan increased by 11%  in 2013

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/economics/full/74341.

 

More than 17,000 Kyrgyz citizens verified a possible ban on entry into Russia - Kyrgyz Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/society/full/74306.

 

212 foreigners violated the rules of stay in Kyrgyzstan, 15 of them were expelled in I quarter in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/law-and-order/full/74356.

 

Fewer Armenians, Belarusians, Koreans, Tatars and Moldovans in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.knews.kg/society/47804.

 

In the near future to open representative trade union federation KR in the Sverdlovsk region of RF

In Russian: http://pda.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74439?all.

 

Community leaders of internal migrants of Osh told about the progress of their problems solution

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1255-08-aprelya-2014-lidery-soobshchestv-vnutrennikh-migrantov-g-osha-rasskazali-o-tom-kak-prodvigaetsya-reshenie-ikh-problem.

 

Information center for labor migrants to open at the railway station

In Russian: here.

 

Ambassador of KR to the Republic of Kazakhstan met with Kyrgyz working in Zhambyl oblast

In Russian: http://namba.kg/news/read.php?id=2538331.

 

Kyrgyzstan aims to reduce brain drain and labor

In Russian: here.

 

"Most of the children getting to the risk zone - children of migrants" - the head teacher of school in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/74967.

 

Kyrgyz security services detained citizens of Nigeria for organizing illegal migration

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/176612-specsluzhby-kyrgyzstana-zaderzhali-grazhdan.html.

 

Bishkek to host National Careers Fair

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyz restricted to travel abroad get acquitted in the Moscow region

In Russian: here.

 

New migration center will help Kyrgyz citizens in Podmoscovye

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyz citizens to take advantage of the adaptation center in Orenburg

In Russian: here.

  

 

Tajikistan

 

  Economic Meeting Dushanbe 2014

In English: http://www.ffpsd.tj/news/593/.

 

Officials: Number of labor migrants would not be reduced

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/chinovniki-chislo-trudovykh-migrantov-iz-tadzhikistana-ne-sokratitsya.

 

Information training center for labor migrants work in Qurghonteppa

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-kurgan-tyube-zarabotal-informatsionno-obuchayushchii-tsentr-dlya-trudovykh-migrantov.

 

SUE "Tachikhorichakor" which was sending migrants abroad, liquidated

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/gup-tachikkhorichakor-zanimavsheesya-otpravkoi-migrantov-za-rubezh-likvidirovano.

 

Number of Tajik citizens in Russia increases

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/chislo-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan-v-rossii-uvelichivaetsya.

 

Sociologist: Tajikistan's dependence on remittances is leading the country to a standstill

In Russian: here.

 

Tajikistan: Migrant Remittances Now Exceed Half of GDP

In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68272.

 

IOM expressed their gratitude to Tajik diplomatic mission in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/mom-vyrazila-blagodarnost-tadzhikskomu-dippredstavitelstvu-v-moskve.

 

Tajiks asking to erect a monument for labor migrants

In Russian: here

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

  Uzbekistan ranks first in terms of remittances from Russia

In Russian: http://www.vkurse.uz/2014/04/06/uzbekistan-na-1-meste-po- obemu-denezhnyih-perevodov-iz-rossii /.

 

Uzbek citizens send home more money from Russia

In Russian: http://www.uznews.net/ru/economy/25946-grazhdane-uzbekistana-shlut-domoj-vse-bolshe-deneg-iz-rossii.

 

More than 87,000 new jobs to create in Tashkent region in 2014

In Russian: here.

 

 

Russia

 

  State Duma adopted the law on simplified obtaining Russian citizenship

In Russian: here.

 

To fingerprint the children of migrants from six years in Russia

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2645224.

 

State Duma ordered the workers to get a certificate on the Russian language

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/04/04/1252868.html.

 

Pay for treatment of illegal immigrants want to shift back to their homeland

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inregions/moscow/90/politics/17734400/.

 

Official statistics

In Russian: http://www.fms.gov.ru/about/statistics/data/details/54891/.

 

Increase the term for migrants

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/politics/17691250/.

 

Migrants seek Russian military service to oppose ‘aggressive pressure from West’

In Russian: http://24smi.org/news/15078-migranty-hotyat-v-rossijskuyu-armiyu.html.

 

Senators approved a bill requiring migrant workers take Russian language test

In Russian: http://www.newizv.ru/lenta/2014-04-16/200283-senatory-odobrili-zakon-objazyvajushij-trudovyh-migrantov-sdavat-russkij-jazyk.html.

 

Migrants will form half the population of Russia in 2050

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/news/463926.html.

 

Medical assistance to migrants

In Russian: http://www.rusinkg.ru/pereselenie/article/50-trudovaya-migratsiya/2212-meditsinskaya-pomoshch-migrantam.

  

Service in the Russian army for migrant - would be by contract or by conscription?

In Russian: http://www.rusinkg.ru/article/6-obshchestvo/2211-sluzhba-v-rossijskoj-armii-dlya-migranta-po-kontraktu-ili-po-prizyvu.

 

 

Multilateral

 

  Labor Unions of CIS countries agreed to promote migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-256700-ru.html.

 

 

International News

 

  What powers have immigration services abroad?

In Russian: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2453548?isSearch=True.

 

 

Analytics

 

  Much ado about nothing

In Russian: http://refugee.ru/news/mnogo_shuma_iz_nichego/2014-04-07-343

 

Thorny path of a migrant

In Russian: here.

 

Russian Map

In Russian: http://svpressa.ru/politic/article/85145/.

 

Simplified scheme of migration

In Russian: http://svpressa.ru/society/article/85061/?rss=1.

 

A bridge between migrants and entrepreneurs

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/25326378.html.

 

Without work, without light, and many others "without" the people of Tajikistan

In Russian: http://rus.ozodi.org/content/article/25327897.html.

 

Russia continues to receive the greatest migration growth from migration exchange with Uzbekistan - net migration increased to 67.3 thousand people

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0591/barom02.php.

 

How cell phones can break migrant workers’ enforced isolation

In English: http://iloblog.org/2014/03/28/how-cell-phones-can-break-migrant-workers-enforced-isolation/.

 

Nicholai Alisov: Documents for Russia can be started executing the Kyrgyz Republic

In Russian: here.

 

Cholpon Osmonova: Migrants think Putin is our sponsor

In Russian: here.

 

Serve not for home

In Russian: http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25334538.html.

 

Alarming fate

In Russian: http://www.newizv.ru/society/2014-04-16/200262-trevozhnaja-dolja.html.

 

Russian markets under the heel of migrants?

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/9138-rynki-rossii-pod-pjatoj-migrantov.html.

 

Migrants are willing to work in the Russian police

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/569245.

 

"Invisible People" to come out of the shadow. And internal migrants will relieve

In Russian: http://slovo.kg/?p=32868.

 

You are our supporter, migrant

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/kormilets-ty-nash-migrant.

 

Migrant’s children? "Roll back" fingers!

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/deti-migrantov-otkatyvaite-palchiki.

 

Migrants in Russia and in Europe

In Russian: http://dobrososedstvo.info/dobro/ru/information/n_125/o_40486.

 

How migrants in Tambov to be tought Russian life

In Russian: http://ria.ru/ocherki/20131030/973666084.html.

 

To withdraw migrants from the shadow

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/regions/2014-04-17/5_migratsia.html.

 

Through the work of the migration police the number of illegal immigrants reduced in the country

In Russian: http://liter.kz/articles/view/46321.

 

Russia to be Asian?

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/piter/2014/04/14/1256797.html.

 

Expert: accretion of FMS power is associated with risks of labor migration

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/society/10272357

 

 

Publications

 

  Migrant workers in the health care system: formal and informal strategies

In Russian: here.

 

Migration Policy Practice (Volume IV, Number 1, February–March 2014)

In English: here.

 

Newsletter, #1 -March 2014

In English: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/moscow/info/files/14_1en.pdf.

 

Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow: Results of a Quantitative Research on Integration Tracks

In Russian: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2425312.

 

News on Labor migration, № 2 (60) February 2014

In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/vestnik/02_2014/.

 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” #8, April 2014

In Russian: here

 

 

Announcements

 

  Call for Applications - Summer School on Labour Markets in Central Asia

In English: http://www.ucentralasia.org/trainings.asp?Nid=680.

 

10th Migration Summer School: Framing Migration Differently: From Implicit Problem to Implied Asset

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0591/anons.php#0104141.

 

Two-year pre-doctoral fellowship: Integration and international migration

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0591/anons.php#0104142.

 

PF "Grace" needs lawyers to work in a project on migration

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1264-10-aprelya-2014-of-blagodat-nuzhny-yuristy-dlya-raboty-v-proekte-po-migratsii.

 

A contest on the topic of migration "exit visa"

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1295-17-aprelya-2014-ob-yavlen-konkurs-na-temu-migratsii-vyezdnaya-viza.

 

Topic for discussion: the relationship of migrants and governmental bodies

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1276-14-aprelya-2014-tema-dlya-obsuzhdeniya-vzaimootnosheniya-migrantov-i-gosudarstvennykh-organov.

 

Moscow to host the Third World Forum of Kyrgyz diasporas abroad

In Russian: http://kyrgyzclub.org/ru/Global/event/249.

 

 


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Email: tspc@auca.kg

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