American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 79

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 79

Date: October 03 – 16, 2014   

Kazakhstan

 

Kazakhstani people earn more than Europeans

In Russian: http://www.ca-portal.ru/article:14111.

 

In RK offer to establish quota for foreign labor, on the basis of workers number in the industry

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2706249.

 

Most of foreign experts coming to Kazakhstan from Uzbekistan, least of all from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/42/40697/174.py.

 

Quota for foreign labor in Kazakhstan in 2014 decreased by 45 thousand units

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2706225.

 

Almost half of the labor migrants in Kazakhstan earn more than 40 thousand tenge

In Russian: http://www.kazpravda.kz/news/view/27979.

 

26,000 foreign citizens work in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.kazpravda.kz/news/view/27971.

 

600 million KZT Kazakhstan budget received from labor migrants

In Russian: here.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

  Kyrgyzstan as part of the CSTO to strengthen reaction to illegal migration

In Russian: here.

 

In Kyrgyzstan to implement a project to inform citizens on international migration

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/187869-v-kyrgyzstane-realizuyut-proekt-po.html.

 

Ministry of Labor developed a communication strategy in the sphere of migration of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Ministry of Social development to participate in the project for Migration Policy Development

In Russian: here.

 

Scrutiny of employment agencies abroad executes Ministry of Labor

In Russian: here.

 

KR Ministry of Labor representative office opening in Moscow allows solving the migrants’ problems in time

In Russian: here.

 

More than a thousand Kyrgyzstanis excluded from the "black list" of Russia

In Russian: http://www.knews.kg/society/55378/.

 

Aliyasbek Alymkulov: More than 200 thousand people annually enter the labor market in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/187864-aliyasbek-alymkulov-v-kyrgyzstane-bolee-200.html.

 

Bulk of the Kyrgyz radicals are migrants from neighboring countries - expert

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-287960-ru.html.

 

Parents of 1627 students in Bishkek are in labor migration – Chief administration of internal affairs in Bishkek

In Russian: http://namba.kg/news/read.php?id=2988111.

 

Migrants: The American Dream

In Russian: http://5tv.kg/migranty-amerikanskaya-mechta/.

 

Migration and youth management in the Issyk-Kul region for 9 months

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-288372-ru.html.

 

Significant portion of migrant remittances spend on weddings in southern Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-287917-ru.html.

 

Patents for work in Russia began to issue in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

The introduction of obligatory registration for traveling out for labor migration to be proposed in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-289859-ru.html.

 

Labor Ministry notes the slowdown of internal migration in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://camplatform.org/newsroom/item/372-news-151014.

 

Labor Ministry: We cannot help migrants violating Russian laws 

In Russian: here.

 

Customs Union allows Kyrgyzstanis to work in Russia without work permits  

In Russian: here.

 

Agreement on an organized recruitment of Kyrgyzstanis to work in Russia ready to sign

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/pressreliz/full/84425.

 

The problems of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan, they go to Russia at random

In Russian: here.

 

Labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan are planning to be included in the pension system of Kazakhstan

In Russian: here.

 

Majilismen promised to solve the problems of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/42/40695/212.py.

 

Kyrgyz citizens in Russia to be taken into account when examining the migrants works

In Russian: here.

 

Free medical care in the homeland may have migrants each year

In Russian: http://vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=30416:migrantam-hotyat-pozvolit-ezhegodno-poluchat-besplatnuyu-medpomosch-na-rodine&Itemid=83.

 

Now up to 570 thousand Kyrgyz in Russia

In Russian: here.

 

$ 810 million remittances from migrants in Kyrgyzstan in the I half 

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-289907-ru.html.

 

 

Tajikistan

 

  MF: From the reduction of migrant remittances to Barki Tojik debt

In Russian: here.

 

Consulate of Tajikistan may open in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/node/196243.

 

DFID to help Tajikistan renovate building of the external employment agency

In English: http://www.news.tj/en/news/dfid-help-tajikistan-renovate-building-external-employment-agency.

 

FMS: as for the beginning of October more than 1.1 thousand of Tajik citizens in Russia

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/fms-na-territorii-rossii-na-nachalo-oktyabrya-nakhodilos-bolee-11-tys-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan.

 

Rahmon: Dushanbe and Moscow are interested in Tajik migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20141015/1028463714.html.

 

Representatives of Tajikistan acquainted with the work of Russian language testing centers for migrants  

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/predstaviteli-tadzhikistana-oznakomilis-s-rabotoi-tsentrov-testirovaniya-migrantov-po-russkomu-.

 

676,300 Tajik nationals left the country in Jan-Sept 2014

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/za-devyat-mesyatsev-svyshe-676-tys-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-pokinuli-stranu-v-poiskakh-dostoinoi-.

 

About 154.5 thousand people left Sogd for labor migration from the beginning of year

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/28332-s-nachala-goda-ih-sogda-v-trudovuyu-migraciyu-vyehalo-poryadka-1545-tys-chelovek.html.

 

Rahmon: " 870,000 jobs created in country for over the past 5 years "

In Russian: here.

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

  Uzbekistan controls labor migrants returned from Kazakhstan  

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/231942/.

 

Uzbekistan Police to take control of migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.uznews.net/ru/society/27797-milicija-uzbekistana-vozmet-pod-kontrol-gastarbajterov.

 

Fundamental principles and rights at work – seminar in Uzbekistan

In Russian: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/moscow/news/2014/1005.htm.

 

In order to ensure employment

In Russian: http://www.uza.uz/ru/society/v-tselyakh-obespecheniya-zanyatosti-naseleniya.

 

 

Russia

 

  Migrants to take exams on the job

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/577688.

 

Russian Deputy General Prosecutor explained the rise of extremism by migration processes

In Russian: http://bpost.kg/news/zamgenprokurora-rossii-obyasnil-rost-ekstremizma-migracionnymi-processami.

 

Prepare migrants to move to Russia from the New Year just on foreign passports

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/migrantov-gotovyat-k-vezdu-v-rossiyu-s-novogo-goda-tolko-po-zagranpasportam.

 

RF General Prosecutor’s Office proposes to introduce a federal quota for the employment of migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/10/08/1324664.html.

 

EDB: Russia is interested in the legal skilled migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Vice-consul of Russia spoke about the citizenship of the Russian Federation

In Russian: here.

 

Increase penalties for the employment of illegal migrants

In Russian: http://www.the-village.ru/village/hopesandfears/news/167287-illegal-workers.

 

How many legal migrants in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.the-village.ru/village/situation/situation/167467-chislo-migrantov.

 

The topic of migrants testing is becoming increasingly important

In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/index.php/news/lenta-novostej/453-tema-testirovaniya-migrantov-stanovitsya-vse-bolee-aktualnoj.html.

 

Expert: FMS is fascinated with the external labor migration issues and unable to cope with refugees

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2014/10/16/1327910.html.

 

FMS: illegal migration in the capital is different today

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2014/10/15/1327384.html.

 

 

Multilateral

 

Citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan received 1.5 years in prison for

illegally crossing the Russian border

In Russian: http://kant.kg/2014-10-07/grazhdane-uzbekistana-i-tadzhikistana-poluchili-po-1-5-goda-kolonii-za-nelegalnyiy-perehod-rossiyskoy-granitsyi/

 

Yerevan to host a meeting of the Council of CIS Migration Heads

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2705243.

 

EDB advised to unify the pension systems of the CIS countries

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/42/40693/484.py.

 

Participants at the meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in Minsk approved a draft program

In Russian: http://camplatform.org/newsroom/item/359-news-101014.

 

Next CIS summit decided to autumn 2015

In Russian: http://vz.ru/news/2014/10/10/709883.html.

 

 

International News

 

  Best cities for migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.the-village.ru/village/city/city/166635-immigranti-rabota.

 

London becomes the most attractive city for migrants

In Russian: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/10/06/london/.

 

French and Russian approaches to migration discussed at a conference in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://itar-tass.com/spb-news/1495807.

 

 

Analytics

 

  How to return our migrants ... at least from Kazakhstan?

In Russian: http://www.ca-portal.ru/article:14073.

 

You cannot work in Russia, if in the migration card is not written "going to work"

In Russian: http://www.ca-portal.ru/article:14025.

 

Tajikistan asks Russia to forgive labor migrants

In Russian: http://www.inozpress.kg/news/view/id/42510.

 

Mobile pensions leads labor migrants out of the shadows

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/42/40678/220.py.

 

Russia does not guarantee the safety for Uzbek migrants

In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/negarrantue.html.

 

Net migration in Russia for January-July 2014 decreased by 14% compared to the same period in 2013

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0613/barom01.php.

 

"Tajiks do not need to go to work in Russia"

In Russian: http://rusplt.ru/world/tadjikam-ne-obyazatelno-otpravlyatsya-na-rabotu-v-rossiyu-13480.html.

 

Sieve for immigrant

In Russian: http://rusplt.ru/society/sito-dlya-immigranta-13321.html.

 

Whether flow of labor migrants change in the countries of the EEU

In Russian: http://www.inozpress.kg/news/view/id/42583.

 

Tajik migrants: recalcitrant and unconquered - R. Ulmasov

In Russian: http://www.ca-portal.ru/article:14262.

 

From 1000 to 5000 migrants from Kyrgyzstan work in Afghanistan, NATO military bases, earning up to $ 3000 per month

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/42/40692/757.py.

 

Left

In Russian: http://vlast.kz/article/pouehavshie-7822.html.

 

Chinese migration to Kazakhstan: myths and fears

In Russian: http://vlast.kz/article/kitajskaja_migracija_v_kazahstan_mify_i_strahi-7846.html.

 

Metamorphosis of Tajik migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/metamorfozy-tadzhikskoi-migratsii.

 

Migration lightening

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2014/10/15/1327533.html.

 

Migrants - an indicator of the labor market activity of the Moscow Region

In Russian: http://itar-tass.com/moskovskaya-oblast/1507384.

 

Tajik labor migrants eternal thorn for Russia - A. Safyanov

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1413356520.

 

"You have no authority for us!"

In Russian: http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/10/14/migrant/.

 

 

Publications

 

  New Issue of ILO-Moscow Newsletter released

In English: here.

 

SPb Migrant Disease Awareness Survey Report

In English: here.

 

International Migration, Vol. 52(5) 2014

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=1398.

 

New Issue of “Your right. Migration” № 20, October 2014

In Russian: here.

 

New Issue of “Compatriots” № 10, October 2014

In Russian: here.

 

Global Migration Issues, Vol. 4 - Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=58&products_id=1405.

 

Journal of International Migration and Integration

In English: http://link.springer.com/journal/12134.

 

 

Announcements

 

Contest for the best coverage in the media lifestyle of migrant workers

from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1958-08-oktyabrya-2014-konkurs-na-luchshee-osveshchenie-v-smi-obraza-zhizni-trudyashchikhsya-migrantov-kr.

 

Press conference on the legal and humanitarian aspects of labor migration

In Russian: http://ria.ru/announce/20141015/1028451156.html#ixzz3GHOKTJ8q.

 

Why migrants are in the "black list" of the Russian Federation?

In Russian: http://vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=30401:pochemu-migrantyi-okazyivayutsya-v-chernyih-spiskah-rf?&Itemid=80.

 

CSIP: Tender for the production of social videos on Migrant Workers

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1989-14-oktyabrya-2014-tssmz-tender-na-izgotovlenie-sotsialnykh-videorolikov-o-trudyashchikhsya-migrantakh.

 

Priority problems of migrant workers and their families

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/1986-14-oktyabrya-2014-prioritetnye-problemy-trudyashchikhsya-migrantov-i-ikh-semej.

 

Symposium ‘Internal migration and commuting in international perspective’

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2014/0613/anons.php#1410141

 

 


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