News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 2 (2020)

Over 17.6 thousand oralmans arrived in Kazakhstan in 2019

In Russian: https://www.inform.kz/ru/bolee-17-6-tys-oralmanov-pribyli-v-kazahstan-v-2019-godu_a360643.

How many foreigners work in Kazakhstan?

In Russian: https://kursiv.kz/news/obschestvo/2019-11/skolko-inostrancev-zanimayut-rukovodyaschie-dolzhnosti-v-kazakhstane.

Signing of a Memorandum between the State Migration Service under the Government of Kyrgyz Republic and Zamandash Association

In Russian: here.

9.3 thousand Kyrgyz citizens became citizens of Russia in 2019

In Russian: here.

Over 12.8 million Uzbeks left the country last year

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/svyshe-12-8-milliona-uzbekistantsev-vyezzhali-iz-strany-v-proshlom-godu-/.

Migrants withdrew trillions of rubles from Russia

In Russian: https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2020-01-22--migranty-vyveli-iz-rossii-trilliony-rublej-47091.

Almost half a million foreigners received Russian citizenship in 2019

In Russian: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/passport-russia-inostranets/30392908.html.

Insufficient paid work affects almost half a billion people, new ILO report shows

In English: https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_734454/lang--en/index.htm.

ILO: Employment policies are key to address the challenge of migration

In English: https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_735192/lang--en/index.html.

Doesn't feel like home: why Russians do not like migrants

In Russian: https://radiosputnik.ria.ru/20200121/1563665330.html.

Labor migrants checkups want to cancel in Russia

In Russian: https://radiosputnik.ria.ru/20200114/1563416802.html.

Uzbekistan sustains poverty by blocking internal migration

In English: https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-sustains-poverty-by-blocking-internal-migration.

Kazakhstan seeks labor market corrections to quell grumbling

In English: https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-seeks-labor-market-corrections-to-quell-grumbling.