News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 8 (2019)

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan signed an Agreement on labor activities and protection of migrant workers’ rights

In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/ru/node/36035.

Kazakhstan plans to strengthen support for internal migration

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/society/2620656.htm.

Inflow of remittances to Kyrgyzstan to increase by 5-10 percent

In Russian: here. 

UN Committee calls on Tajik authorities to help migrants reintegrate

In Russian: https://www.news.tj/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20190417/komitet-oon-prizivaet-vlasti-tadzhikistana-pomoch-migrantam-v-reintegratsi.

Moscow and Dushanbe signed 17 agreements. Among them on organized migration

In English: https://www.news.tj/ru/news/tajikistan/politics/20190417/moskva-i-dushanbe-podpisali-neskolko-soglashenii-sredi-nih-o-migratsi.

Tajikistan: Rahmon pleads with Putin for amnesty on deported migrants

In English: https://eurasianet.org/tajikistan-rahmon-pleads-with-putin-for-amnesty-on-deported-migrant. 

Women's Committee to strengthen assistance to citizens abroad

In Russian: https://www.gazeta.uz/ru/2019/04/24/women.

Uzbekistan bought buses for almost $ 20 million. They are to serve migrants

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/economic/uzbekistan-zakupit-avtobusy-pochti-na-20.

Migrants get under double taxation in Russia

In Russian: https://news.ru/den-gi/migranty-popadayut-v-rossii-pod-dvojnoe-nalogooblozhenie.

Money transfer systems limited transfer of money from Russia to Kyrgyzstan - up to 100 thousand rubles per month

In Russian: https://kloop.kg/blog/2019/04/29/rossiya-vvela-limit-denezhnyh-perevodov-v-kyrgyzstan-v-100-tysyach-rublej-v-mesyats/.

Putin: ‘Russia and ILO have close and constructive cooperation’

In English: https://www.ilo.org/moscow/news/WCMS_689960/lang--en/index.htm.

Guy Ryder: ‘All countries should ratify health and safety conventions’

In English: https://www.ilo.org/moscow/news/WCMS_689373/lang--en/index.htm.

Simplified migration program "Russian Speaker". How in fact it works?

In Russian: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29906172.htm.

Five problems of Tajik labor migrants

In Russian: https://www.news.tj/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20190418/pyat-problem-tadzhikskih-trudovih-migranto.

Love is gone: migrants cooled down to Russia

In English: https://m.gazeta.ru/business/2019/04/15/12302665.shtm.

Real scammers, or as an employer in Russia, deceived Uzbek migrant workers

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/nastoyashchie-moshenniki-ili-kak-rab.

Are migrants waiting for the better in Russia?

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/russia/2019/04/17/1776370.htm.

Survey - "Vulnerability of migrants and integration needs in Central Asia"

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/7543-posobie-issledovanie-uyazvimost-migrantov-i-potrebnosti-integratsii-v-tsentralnoj-azii. 

Mission of IOM/ UN Agency for Migration in the Kyrgyz Republic, invites non-governmental organizations to cooperate

In English: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/7538-missiya-mezhdunarodnoj-organizatsii-po-migratsii-mom-agentstvo-oon-po-migratsii-v-kyrgyzskoj-respublike-priglashaet-nepravitelstvennye-organizatsii-k-sotrudnichestvu.