News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 8 (2018)

Briefing on changes in the law on employment and migration held in MLSP of Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/en/node/349040.

Number of migrant workers increased in North-Kazakhstan region

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/en/handel.

State Migration Service issued a work permit in excess of quota

In Russian: here.

Kyrgyzstan reported about rapid urbanization and managed migration at the 51st session of UN Commission

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-rasskazal-o-bystroi-urbanizatcii-i-upravliaemoi-migratcii-na-51-i-sessii-komissii-oon/.

Kyrgyzstanis working in Turkey to receive a pension

In Russian: here.

Threats faced by migrants according to Russian experts

In Russian: here. 

Tajikistan mitigates conditions of stay for foreigners in its territory

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/power/20180409/tadzhikistan-smyagchaet-usloviya-prebivaniya-inostrantsev-na-svoei-territorii.

Ruble decline reduces incomes of Tajik migrants’ families

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/economic/20180412/padenie-rublya-sokratit-dohodi-semei-tadzhikski-migrantov.

Uzbekistan may become a member of IOM

In Russian: http://www.uzdaily.uz/articles-id-36823.htm.

Uzbekistan and Russia discussed exchange of information on migration

In Russian: http://www.uzdaily.uz/articles-id-36888.htm.

Since the beginning of year about 3 thousand people officially emigrated from Uzbekistan

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/29137-s-nachala-goda-iz-uzbekistana-ofitsialno-emigrirovali-okolo-3-tysjach-chelovek.html.

In Uzbekistan, about a thousand tickets for migrants already sold: instruction to get them

In Russian: http://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/v-uzbekistane-prodali-uzhe-pory/. 

Moscow employers are waiting for migrants with a patent

In Russian: https://mc.mos.ru/about/piece-of-news/257.

Employers inviting migrants responsible for their timely departure

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/society/2400466.html.

Labor patents benefit migrants and employers

In Russian: https://mc.mos.ru/about/piece-of-news/258.

People from Russia are in the ninth place among those who receive citizenship in EU countries

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/society/2402348.html. 

The government decided to punish officials for "delayed" migrants

In Russian: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/13/02/2018/5a8283f19a7947b83409b03c?from=materials_on_subject.

The government asked to tighten up the "law of Yarova" on "rubber" offices

In Russian: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/13/02/2018/5a82c32a9a7947f8347e7aba?from=materials_on_subject.

CSTO prepares an agreement on cooperation against illegal migration

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2018-04-03--v-odkb-podgotovili-soglashenie-o-sotrudnichestve-protiv-nelegalnoj-migracii-35746.

EAC discussed issues of social protection of workers and elimination of obstacles in the unified labor market in EAEC

In Russian: http://www.eurasiancommission.org/en/nae/news/Pages/11-04-2018-1.aspx.

France: migrants live in "inhuman" conditions

In Russian: https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1327171.

Washington proclaimed "zero tolerance" for illegal migrants

In Russian: https://www.svoboda.org/a/29151775.html. 

Tajik migrants come from Russia completely different person or do not return at all

In Russian: https://rus.ozodi.org/a/29148026.html.

Turkmenistanis now go to work in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

In Russian: https://rus.ozodlik.org/a/29145877.html.

Tajikistan: from a labor migrant to a militant in Syria

In Russian: http://cabar.asia/ru/tadzhikistan-ot-trudovogo-migranta-do-boevika-v-sirii/.

You better to us. How Moscow officials manage migration flows

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/29144-uzh-luchshe-vy-k-nam-kak-moskovskie-chinovniki-upravljajut-migratsionnymi-potokami.html.