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NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 29

 

Date: September 1 – 30, 2012

Kazakhstan

 

Majilis approves ratification of ILO Convention on equality of men and women

In Russian: .

 

South Korea and Kazakhstan sign agreement on temporary employment

In Russian: .

 

New head appointed for the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection

In Russian: .

 

China asks Kazakhstan to facilitate visa rules for workers

In English: .

 

UN official points at bureaucratic problems in registration of migrant workers in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

Ministry of Labor and Social Protection holds presentation of employment map in regions

In Russian: .

 

President of RK: Proficiency testing will be the first step to a decent employment

In Russian: .

 

532 unemployed women pass advanced training and education in in-demand professions - results of a social project

In Russian: .

 

Most notorious salary defaulters in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

Astana vacancies posted at are attractive for Russians, Americans and Chinese

In Russian: .

 

The average wage in Kazakhstan in July is $ 712

In Russian: or here.

 

Regional conference of oralmans in Aktobe

In Russian: .

 

Oralmans can keep their status in spite citizenship obtained

In Russian: or here.

 

Astana to host job fair

In Russian: .

 

Job Fair in Almaty

In Russian: .

 

More than 100 foreigners get punished in the process of overnight operation "Illegal" in Karaganda region

In Russian: .

 

133 illegal migrants detained in Mangistau region

In Russian: or here. 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Parliamentary committee approves a draft agreement with the Russian government aimed at strengthening of migrants rights

In Russian: or here.

 

Russia's new ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Andrey Krutko intends to contribute in strengthening ties with Kyrgyz labor migrants in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Russia and Kyrgyzstan to sign a readmission agreement in early October

In Russian: .

 

Ambassador of KR to Kazakhstan E.Omuraliev meets with IOM coordinator for Central Asia

In Russian: or here.

 

Parliament is considering migration issues behind closed doors to the press

In Russian: .

 

Jantoro Satybaldiev intends to delegate migration issues to a separate agency

In Russian: .

 

Deputies of Parliament concerned about the increasing of Chinese citizens working in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

New Consular General appointed for Yekaterinburg

In Russian: .

 

Migrants' rights to be discussed at the International Festival of Documentary Films "Bir Duino - Kyrgyzstan"

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz workers earn highest salaries in Bishkek

In English: .

 

Up to 30% of the working population of Kyrgyzstan works abroad

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz citizens increasingly inslaved in Almaty

In Russian: .

 

Role of remittances and their impact on the migrants’ countries of origin discussed in Issyk-Kul

In Russian: or here.

 

National banks of 9 countries to develop money transfer system for Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Experts from the European Union holds training on combatting illegal migration and human trafficking for  Kyrgyz border guards

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Parliament offers to separate Migration Department from Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In Russian: .

 

Temir Sariev: "Stability of the national currency only because of remittances"

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Diaspora in Pakistan tells MP about their lives

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz migrants send home $860M in 1H 2012

In English: .

 

More than 7000 citizens of Kyrgyzstan work and live in UAE

In Russian: .

 

Salaries in Kyrgyzstan rise to 10.5 thousand soms

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz migrants declare about assault and battery in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

About 70% of Kyrgyz people suffered in Shymkent market fire settle down in new locations - MFA

In Russian: .

 

Abandoned by parents in Russia up to 30 children have to be repatriated to Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Department of International Migration launches website

In Russian: .

 

Conference on "Migrants remittances: accuracy and benefit" held in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Capital of Kyrgyzstan to show a video-film about migrants’ problems within the "Football and I - against violence!" movement

In Russian: .

 

MP M.Sabirov offers to reduce visa issuance duration for foreigners from 10 to 5 days

In Russian: or here.

 

K.Talieva: Because of tense inflow of migrants coming to big cities we have problem of maternal and child mortality

In Russian: or here.

 

Consulate General of Kazakhstan opens in Osh

In Russian: .

 

High salaries in southern Kyrgyzstan attract construction workers

In Russian: .

 

Legal migrant workers in Russia may send transfers to the Social Fund of KR

In Russian: .

 

Leaflets with phone numbers to be given to Kyrgyz citizens traveling by train

In Russian: .

 

Internal migrants to be examined for TB

In Russian: .

 

Askarbek Beshimov: More than 60 thousand citizens of Kyrgyzstan work in Kazakhstan, 30,000 of them sell in markets

In Russian: .

 

MP urges colleagues to watch film about Kyrgyz migrants behind closed doors

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Association in UAE offers to open Public Supervisory Board and the Cultural Center under the Consulate General of the Kyrgyz Republic to the UAE

In Russian: .

 

IOM Regional Director for Central Asia visits Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyzstan and the IOM to continue constructive cooperation

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyzstan conducts study on the future of migration after the country's accession to the Customs Union

In Russian: .

 

Almaty to examine Kyrgyz labor migrants for HIV and TB

In Russian: .

 

Consulate General of Kyrgyzstan in Kazakhstan discusses problems of migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry closes the Northern division of International Migration Department because of its leader’s arrest

In Russian:

.

 

Pensioners to account for 24% of Kyrgyz population by 2050

In English: .

 

Migrants in Canada ask the Ombudsman to legalize dual citizenship

In Russian: .

 

Consular Department launches hotline

In Russian: .

 

"Zamandash" Association and Kyrgyz Diaspora organization in the United States "Kyrgyz Salam" to cooperate

In Russian: .

 

76 Kyrgyz citizens in Moscow awaiting deportation

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Club organizes in New York gala evening dedicated to the Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: or here.

 

Kyrgyz Club in UAE holds a special event in honor of Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

A collection of poetry by Kyrgyz migrants in Russia published in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Culture Days of Kyrgyzstan to be held in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

"Mekenim Kyrgyzstan" to be featured in compact resident places of Kyrgyz people in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Chicago to host Football Tournament among Kyrgyz Diaspora

In Russian: .

 

"Russkoe Dostoyanie" in Kyrgyzstan to teach future migrants Russian language

In Russian: . 

 

Tajikistan

 

Labor migration issues discussed in Dushanbe

In Russian: .

 

“Illegal Migration and Trafficking in Human Beings” National Training held in Dushanbe

In Russian: .

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan and the World Bank discuss migration issues

In Russian: .

 

Representation of Tajik Migration Service in Russia to facilitate employment of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Issues of Chinese migrants in Tajikistan discussed in Dushanbe

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service intends to employ Tajik migrants in South Korea

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service head continues tour in Russia

In Russian:

.

 

S.Devonaev visits Republic of Bashkortostan

In Russian: .

 

Leaders of NDTP invigorate propagandistic activities among Tajik labor migrants

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service representative gets to know work conditions of labor migrants in Sochi

In Russian: .

 

ADB forecasts growth in Tajikistan for 2012 due to high remittances

In Russian: .

 

Jobs are a cornerstone of development, says World Development Report 2013

In English: .

 

St. Petersburg offers work to Tajik labor migrants

In Russian: .

 

Representatives of the "Sozandagoni Watan" meet with Tajik migrants in Novosibirsk

In Russian: .

 

National database of job vacancies to be created

In Russian: .

 

The average salary in Kulob for the first time breaks the barrier of 100$

In Russian: .

 

Moscow to host Quran recitation competition among Tajik migrants

In Russian: .

 

OSCE/ODIHR highlights challenges for women from migrant households in Tajikistan

In Russian: .

 

Imdod Committee head holds talks with Tajik Minister of Labor and Social Protection

In Russian: .

 

Online radio for Tajik migrants goes on air

In Russian: .

 

Tajikistan to train migrants for Belarus labor market needs

In Russian: .

 

German scientist: People in Tajikistan are more concerned about unemployment than the national identity

In Russian: .

 

S.Devonaev visits St. Petersburg

In Russian: .

 

Celebration of the Independence of Tajikistan Republic in Yekaterinburg

In Russian: .

 

Celebrating Independence Day in Novosibirsk

In Russian: .

 

Tajikistan must find its own way for seeking solution to labor migration problems

In Russian: .

 

National conference on labor migration

In Russian: .

 

Sogd residents to have consultations on entry rules to Russia

In Russian: .

 

Ural cannot do without Tajik migrants

In Russian: .

 

100 residents of Tursunzoda return home in coffins from Russia in Jan-Aug this year

In Russian: .

 

Tajik migrant workers detained for the attack on police in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Shuvalov to discuss issues of military base presence and labor migration in Dushanbe

In Russian: .

 

Tajikistan threatened by illegal migration from Afghanistan 

In Russian: .

 

The unemployment rate in RT is at 2.6%

In Russian: .

 

More than 182 thousand people leave northern Tajikistan this year to work abroad

In Russian: .

 

Migrants from Tajikistan ask to introduce a visa regime with Russia

In Russian: .

 

Tajik businessman in Russia builds a school for $ 1 million in Farkhor

In Russian: .

 

Labor migrants from Tajikistan are employed in Belarus

In Russian: .

 

Implementation of the project on Safe Work

In Russian: .

 

Khatlon has held 210 job fairs

In Russian: .

 

Five Tajik workers die in Russian refinery fire

In English: . 

 

Uzbekistan

 

Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

In Russian: .

 

Celebration of Independence Day of Uzbekistan in New York

In Russian: or here.

 

Uzbek farmers forced to soak up labor

In English: .

 

Convenience for entrepreneurs

In Russian: .

 

Minimum wage in Uzbekistan at the level of First Rate by uniform rate

In Russian: or here.

 

610,000 unemployed registered in Uzbekistan

In Russian: .

 

Tashkent opens new vocational training center for unemployed

In Russian: or here.

 

Entrepreneurs create new jobs

In Russian: .

 

Remittances from Russia to Uzbekistan increase by 16% in the 2nd quarter

In Russian: or here.

 

Uzbek cotton farms stick to manual labor

In English: .

 

Job Fairs

In Russian: .

 

In defense of entrepreneurs’ interests

In Russian: .

 

Turkey tightens the entry rules for Uzbeks

In Russian: .

 

Renewed calls for global boycott of Uzbek cotton

In English: .

 

Uzbekistan breaks promise on ending child labor in cotton fields

In English: .

 

Half of migrant workers come from Uzbekistan to Tula

In Russian: . 

 

Russia

 

Russia reveals Action Plan on implementation the Concept of State Migration Policy

In Russian: .

 

Migration Policy Concept of the RF 2025 represents importance for all entities of the Federation

In Russian: .

 

Ministry of Labor intends to toughen rules for migrants’ employers

In Russian: .

 

Lutkovskaya signs a cooperation agreement with the International Organization for Migration

In Russian: .

 

Exam for migrants to be introduced in 2013

In Russian: .

 

Schools open special groups for migrant children with poor knowledge of Russian language

In Russian: .

 

FSOB supports cancelling penalties for migrants being deported out of Russia

In Russian: .

 

Alexander Abrosimov: "The situation with the migration has to be changed by economic methods"

In Russian: .

 

Stickers in public transportation to teach Russian language to labor migrants

In Russian: .

 

Deputies propose to raise fine for breaching entry regulations

In Russian: .

 

Sakhalin authorities halve migration quota for foreign workers

In Russian: .

 

FMS detects 400 Uzbeks and Tajiks in LG factory of Podmoskovye

In Russian: .

 

Russian language courses for migrant workers open in Department of Russia’s FMS in Novosibirsk oblast

In Russian: .

 

Legislation regarding illegal migrants might be toughened

In Russian: .

 

Moscow mayor notes unwillingness of Moscowites to take the jobs of migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Economic Development Ministry of RF: Russia’s population will increase by half a million due to migrants

In Russian: .

 

Petersburg deputies expel illegal migrants from Russia

In Russian: .

 

School achievement of migrant’s children - an indicator of effectiveness of state social policies

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service arrests 130 employers that employed hundreds of illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

“Town of gastarbeiters" discovered in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Moscow FMS in search for illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

Republic prosecutors reveal evidence of illegal business checks

In Russian: .

 

Employees of department of FMS illegally issuing passports to Tajiks in the Rostov region

In Russian: .

 

Socio-preventive operation "Teenager migrant" starts in Murmansk

In Russian: .

 

Pilot project to train migrant Russian language starts in Nizhny Novgorod

In Russian: .

 

Vologda authorities open school for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Construction companies of St. Petersburg continue violating migration laws

In Russian: .

 

Konstantin Smirnov: The issue of migration is also the issue of morality

In Russian: .

 

Anatoly Krivenchenko: It is important to distinguish between migrant workers and those who wish to return home

In Russian: .

 

Russia needs more than 1.7 million migrant workers in 2013

In Russian: .

 

Demand for migrant workers drops in Russia

In Russian: .

 

The curator of the external migration removed from the post of FMS deputy head

In Russian: .

 

FMS Head: Business should be responsible for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Budget earns 8.3 billion from work licenses of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Representatives of national communities attracted to impact on migrant debtors

In Russian: .

 

"Marshrutochniki" against recruiting citizens of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and lobbying increasing quotas for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg: We cannot ban migrants for street cleaning

In Russian: .

 

Living conditions of migrants to be checked in Far East

In Russian: .

 

Kemerovo opens Adaptation Center for Migrants

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service is looking for gastarbeiters with transport

In Russian: .

 

About 100 migrants attack Moscow police

In Russian: .

 

Russia develops a board game about gastarbeiters life

In Russian: .

 

Russia recognizes difficulties without migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Service "02" receives messages on illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

Penalties for employment of illegal immigrants to be tightened

In Russian: .

 

Middle Urals is one of the most attractive regions for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Head of the FMS Directorate: Migrants come to Kaliningrad to work, but not commit crimes

In Russian: .

 

Solntcev resident forced to pay illegal hostel for migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Smolny: Number of migrants deported from the country for drug use increases

In Russian: .

 

Vladivostok residents urge to return migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Residents of Kalugian Borovsk demand evicting migrants

In Russian: .

 

FMS and police stage a raid on illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

FMS finds 40 illegal janitors in Moscow

In Russian: . 

 

Moscow subway disperses "labor registry" of illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

Smolny replies National Democrats that a new center for migrants being deported is not necessary

In Russian: .

 

Russia may ban migrants to work in aviation

In Russian: .

 

About a third of migrant workers in St. Petersburg do not pass Russian language test

In Russian: .

 

Kaliningrad to automate issuance of migration cards

In Russian: . 

 

Multilateral News

 

Leaders in volume of remittances  from Russia are Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine

In Russian: .

 

60,000 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan work in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

Russia and Tajikistan jointly to regulate migration processes

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan: Focus on illegal labor migration in southern border regions

In English: .

 

"Tolerance" Program fails

In Russian: .

 

FMS: Mostly Uzbeks, Tajiks, Ukrainians go to Russia

In Russian: .

 

Special journal for migrants to answer all questions

In Russian: .

 

Saudi Arabia to recruit Tajik, Kyrgyz migrant workers

In English: .

 

Expert: In 2011 more than 1 million foreigners from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Moldova arrived to St. Petersburg

In Russian: .

 

69% of Kaliningrad citizens want to limit labor migration from Central Asia

In Russian: . 

 

International News

 

Barak Obama recognizes flop in migration as his main failure

In Russian: .

 

Illegal migrants in the United States to be issued driving license

in Russian: .

 

Youth unemployment getting even worse

In English: .

 

U.S. Protects Migrant Workers’ Rights

In English: .

 

Spain refuses free treatment of illegal immigrants

In Russian: .

 

Canadian government cancels passports of more than 3 thousand people

In Russian: .

 

Private company in Britain to search for 174 thousand migrants

In Russian: .

 

Because of unemployment migrants leave Spain

In Russian: .

 

Ukraine advised to think about attracting migrants

In Russian: . 

 

Analytics

 

TV Pick-Russia: Characteristics of migration policy (video)

In Russian: .

 

Quota on migrants may increase

In Russian: .

 

Lesser number of labor migrants to be in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Expulsion without permission

In Russian: .

 

Moscowites  to complain about illegal migrants at a website

In Russian: .

 

Saltanat Libert: Thousands of dollars would be enough for me

In Russian: .

 

Russian experts: Most of women labor migrants come from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Discussion about female migration in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Kemelbek Kozhomkulov, Assistant Ombudsman of Kyrgyzstan: "It is hard in Moscow for Kyrgyz people"

In Russian: .

 

Expert calls the idea of government’s voluntary payments for migrants misunderstanding

In Russian: .

                                         

Tajik migrant workers were called to "obey Putin"

In Russian: .

 

Back to Central Asia? Never!

In Russian: .

 

Large number of guest workers and immigrants force the authorities to review the scheme of workforce management

In Russian: .

 

Moscowites have to consider the fact that migration will increase, and learn to live with it

In Russian: .

 

Forum on "ethnic relations and migration"

In Russian: .

 

MP suggests Poltavchenko his way to address migrants problems

In Russian: .

 

100 migrants per square meter

In Russian: .

 

The owner of the largest portal superjob.ru Alexei Zakharov tells about number of guest workers in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Resources to pay for health of migrants?

In Russian: .

 

Reasons of being grateful to migrants in Tajikistan

In Russian: .

 

School for migrants opened in factory premises

In Russian: .

 

Russians on policy towards migrants

In Russian: .

 

Migrants are not interested in the cultural adaptation?

In Russian: .

 

Need to limit the influx of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Where to learn Russian?

In Russian: .

 

Five millionth migrant?

In Russian: .

 

Migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan play volleyball for money

In Russian: .

 

Economy requires labor

In Russian: .

 

Employers should be responsible for illegal migrants

In Russian: .

 

Workplace for guest

In Russian: .

 

Social Project: Migrant workers to look at Moscowites with disdain

In Russian: .

 

Move to Russia becomes easier

In Russian: .

 

Refugees, migrants, immigrants ...

In Russian: .

 

Where and why rush migrants from the former Soviet Union countries

In Russian: .

 

Cossacks: migrants should learn Russian before entering Russia

In Russian: .

 

Unique "Migrants School" opens in the village Sheksna of Vologda oblast

In Russian: .

 

FMS continues to open dialogue with the public

In Russian: .

 

Slumdog Millionaire in Petersburg

In Russian: .

 

Parliament recalls Migrant Workers

In Russian: .

 

Family: on both sides of the border

In Russian: .

 

Pay for guest workers

In Russian: .

 

Integration as an integral element of migration policy

In Russian: .

 

Russia makes a film about migrants

In Russian: .

 

Place of treatment of guest workers?

In Russian: .

 

Labor reserves

In Russian: .

 

Tajik guest workers export not only money from Russia

In Russian: .

 

Songs of our village. How does work in Moscow internet radio station "Muhodzhir / Migrant"

In Russian: .

 

Chinatown, Kazakhstan?

In English: .

 

How to reach Kyrgyzstan from Russia?

In Russian: .

 

Migrant for education

In Russian: .

 

MIA closes enter Russia for undesirable aliens

In Russian: .

 

Migrants fill Russian cities. How to accept this?

In Russian: .

 

Haluk Levent: Migration from Kyrgyzstan will not stop

In Russian: .

 

Smolny to find out how many migrant children in Petersburg schools

In Russian: .

 

Law on State Demographic Registry to become a control tool on migration inflow

In Russian: .

 

Continued. Migrants as a sign of times

In Russian: .

 

Russians present negative assessment of migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Moscow does not refuse to treat migrants

In Russian: . 

 

Publications

 

Handbook on Migration Terminology (Russian-English)

In English: .

 

The Middle East and North Africa - IOM Annual Report 2011

In English: .

 

International labor migration and local rural activities in the Kyrgyz Republic: determinants and trade-offs

In English: .

 

Labor Migrants Trade Union: News on labor migration, August, 2012

In Russian: .

 

New issue of “Your right. Migration”, â„– 17, September 2012

In Russian: .

 

New issue of “Your right. Migration”, â„– 18, September 2012

In Russian: .

 

Migration Policy Practice (Volume II, Number 4, August-September 2012)

In English: .

 

International migration: the challenges of globalization

In Russian: .

 

“Migration XXI Century" Independent News and Analysis Journal, â„– 4 (13), July - August 2012

In Russian: .

 

New issue of “Compatriots”, â„– 9, September 2012

In Russian: .

 

IOM Research Newsletter - September 2012

In English: .

 

Labor in the Global South: Challenges and alternatives for workers

In English: .

 

Trade and employment

In English: .

 

Job placement in Russia (audio report)

In Russian: .

 

Career guidance and job placement (Russian) (audio report)

In Russian: . 

 

Announcements

 

Job announcement: Expert/Human Dimension Activities

In English: .

 

ILO at the 'Jobs for Europe' conference

In English: .

 

IDM Intersessional Workshop – Protecting Migrants during Times of Crisis: Immediate Responses and Sustainable Strategies

In English: .

 

New jobs for CIS citizens in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Request for proposals: Development of a restructured and enhanced Web site for the MIRPAL network

In English: .

 

New CV’s from the CIS countries

In Russian: .

 

Fostering the social and professional reintegration of return labor migrants

In English: .

 

JMDI has launched photo and video competition to promote positive impact migration development

In English: . 

  

 


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