American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 113

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 113

Date: January 25 - February 07, 2016  

Kazakhstan

 

 

UN counted 3.5 million migrants in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/oon-naschitala-v-kazahstane-35-milliona-migrantov-288462/.

 

There is no Chinatown in Kazakhstan - expert

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/v-kazahstane-net-chaynataunov-ekspert-288413/.

 

China is forced to deliver their workers to Kazakhstan - expert

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/kitay-vyinujden-postavlyat-svoih-rabochih-kazahstan-ekspert-288408/

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

 

Migration code can appear in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Representative office of the KR State Service on migration opened in Moscow

In Russian: here.

 

IOM mission in Kyrgyzstan met with the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of KR

In Russian: http://iom.kg/?p=1741.

 

Nurdin Tynaev: Migration policy in Kyrgyzstan ruined

In Russian: here.

 

Remittances of migrant workers make up 32% of the GDP of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2016-01-27--perevody-trudovyh-migrantov-sostavljajut-do-32-vvp-kirgizii-21588.

 

Income from migrant workers dropped by 37 %

In Russian: here.

 

SRS: more than 2 thousand people abandoned the Kyrgyz Republic citizenship in 2015

In Russian: here.

 

National Diasporas in Russia interested in an illegal situation of migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=38852:natsdiasporyi-v-rossii-zainteresovanyi-v-nelegalnom-polozhenii-trudovyih-migrantov&Itemid=80.

 

Structural unit to control the observance of the rights and freedoms of migrants can appear at Ombudsman Office of the Kyrgyz Republic

In Russian: here.

 

Migration Service: There is a strong tendency to reduce the number of citizens who have denies for entry to Russia

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/101675.

 

Annual outflow of Kyrgyz citizens abroad is on average 50 thousand people

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/news/27529251.html.

 

76 thousand Kyrgyzstani removed from the black list of FMS in 2015

In Russian: here.

 

Migration Service: 169 refugees in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here

 

Labor migration: how many Kyrgyz citizens died abroad?

In Russian: http://yntymak.kg/index.php/zhanylyktar/russkij/item/11550-trudovaya-migratsiya-skolko-grazhdan-kr-pogiblo-za-granitsej.

  

 

Tajikistan

 

 

Migration Tajik authorities intend to sign a cooperation agreement with the Red Cross

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/migratsionnye-vlasti-tadzhikistana-namereny-podpisat-soglashenie-o-sotrudnichestve-s-krasnym-kr.

 

Tajikistan and Korea discussed the prospects of cooperation in the field of labor migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/node/221151.

 

Volume of remittances to Tajikistan in dollars fell by 33.3%

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/obem-denezhnykh-perevodov-v-tadzhikistane-v-dollarakh-snizilsya-na-333.

 

Number of Tajik citizens in Russia for the year fell by almost 14%

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/chislennost-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan-v-rossii-za-god-sokratilas-pochti-na-14.

 

Remittances sent in rubles in Tajikistan to be issued in Somoni

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-tadzhikistane-perevody-otpravlennye-v-rublyakh-budut-vydavat-v-somoni.

 

Ministry of Economic Development supports the new rules for granting transfers coming in rubles

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/minekonomrazvitiya-podderzhivaet-novye-pravila-vydachi-perevodov-postupayushchikh-v-rublyakh.

 

NBT: Russian money transfer system in respect of Tajikistan work as usual

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/38241-nbt-rossiyskie-sistemy-denezhnyh-perevodov-v-otnoshenii-tadzhikistana-rabotayut-v-obychnom-rezhime.html.

 

Up to $ 50 million may not get Tajik families whose main income is remittances

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/do-50-mln-mogut-nedopoluchit-tadzhikskie-semi-chim-osnovnym-dokhodom-yavlyayutsya-denezhnye-per.

 

9 thousand people left from only one oblast of Tajikistan to Russia in 2016

In Russian: http://regnum.ru/news/society/2072473.html.  

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

 

Moscow and Tashkent are preparing an intergovernmental agreement on organized recruitment of Uzbek for work in Russia

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/19657-moskva-i-tashkent-gotovjat-mezhpravitelstvennoe-soglashenie-ob-orgnabore-uzbekistantsev-dlja-raboty-v-rossii.html.

 

Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry clarified the procedure of passports exchange for those who left for permanent residence

In Russian: http://ru.sputniknews-uz.com/society/20160205/1709707.html

 

 

Russia

 

 

Largest immigration center in country opened in Moscow

In Russian: https://www.mos.ru/news/item/6513073.

 

Sobyanin: sale of patents to migrants bring the budget more revenue than oil companies

In Russian: http://tass.ru/moskva/2624123.

 

The Programme of Cooperation between Russia and the International Labor Organization May be Extended

In English: http://www.ilo.org/moscow/news/WCMS_445910/lang--en/index.htm.

 

Migrants in St. Petersburg are less for 500 thousand

In Russian: here.

 

Calls to CIS countries declined sharply

In Russian: http://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2016/02/01/626195-zvonki-strani-sng-rezko-sokratilis.

 

Restaurants and shops for migrants in Moscow: "Still necessary to calculate"

In Russian: http://regnum.ru/news/society/2070027.html.

 

Number of illegal migrants from North Korea in Russia will decrease

In Russian: http://regnum.ru/news/polit/2070660.html.

 

A growing number of people in Russia who are trying to find a job in Moscow

In Russian: http://regnum.ru/news/society/2068741.html.  

  

 

Multilateral

 

 

Kyrgyz displaced Uzbeks in the labor market of EEU

In Russian: http://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2016-01-25--na-rynke-truda-eaes-kirgizy-vytesnjajut-uzbekov-21543.

 

CSTO representatives to discuss the issues of fight against migration at a meeting in Minsk

In Russian: http://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2016-02-04--predstaviteli-odkb-obsudjat-voprosy-borby-s-migraciej-na-zasedanii-v-minske-21732

 

 

International News

 

 

Labor and Employment Ministers of the BRICS countries adopted a joint declaration

In English: http://www.ilo.org/moscow/news/WCMS_446543/lang--en/index.htm.

 

UN: Number of women and children among the migrants in Europe for the first time exceeded the number of men

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/news/27529377.html

 

 

Analytics

 

 

Remittances from migrants avoid extreme poverty

In Russian: http://www.vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=38828:perechisleniya-ot-migrantov-pozvolyayut-izbezhat-ekstremalnoy-bednosti&Itemid=79.

 

What if you are in the "black list" of migrants?

In Russian: http://camplatform.org/newsroom/item/522-chto-delat-esli-vy-popali-v-chernyj-spisok-migrantov.

 

Arkady Gladilov: Our migrants are treated as cash cows

In Russian: here.

 

Labor migration - stop, or support?

In Russian: http://www.vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=38851:trudovaya-migratsiya-ostanovit-ili-podderzhat?&Itemid=127.

 

If tomorrow migrants stop sending money, there will be a social explosion

In Russian: http://www.vesti.kg/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=38846:esli-zavtra-migrantyi-prekratyat-prisyilat-dengi-proizoydet-sotsialnyiy-vzryiv&Itemid=80.

 

Every tenth Kyrgyzstani working in Russia

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/19561-kazhdyj-desjatyj-kyrgyzstanets-truditsja-v-rossii.html.

 

Who replace those labor migrants who left the Russia?

In Russian: http://www.vedomosti.ru/management/articles/2016/01/28/625768-kto-zamenit-uehavshih-rossii-trudovih-migrantov.

 

Fund assistance to labor migrants from Central Asia in St. Petersburg closed

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/v-peterburge-zakryvaetsya-fond-pomoshchi-trudovym-migrantam-iz-srednei-azii.

 

Sheradil Baktygulov: "The lack of information gives rise to stereotypes on migrants"

In Russian: http://regnum.ru/news/society/2067725.html.

 

The quotas for foreign workers was cut by a third

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/603300.

 

Tajik migrant workers brought in less money from Russia

In Russian: here.

 

"Black list": Migrants from the regions were left without help after the merger of ministries

In Russian: http://kloop.kg/blog/2016/01/28/chernyj-spisok-migranty-iz-oblastej-ostalis-bez-pomoshhi-posle-sliyaniya-ministerstv/.

 

Current situation with the Russian living in Korea

In Russian: here.

 

"Kyrgyz people in Dubai not engaged in dirty work"

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/27529158.html.

 

Fire in Moscow as an occasion to reflect on the solution of migration problems

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/27526899.html.

 

Is Tajikistan waiting for the sunset of labor migration?

In Russian: here.

 

Lending migrants: no escape from fate, and more from debts

In Russian: http://www.fergananews.com/articles/8851.

 

Migration from Central Asia in the twentieth century: the lessons for tomorrow

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/node/221316.

 

Expert: Russia should introduce visas for migrant workers

In Russian: http://ru.sputniknews-uz.com/analytics/20160201/1676672.html.

 

Authorities: Labor migration from Central Asia - a potential channel of penetration of terrorists to Russia

In Russian: http://rugrad.eu/news/842542/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed.

 

 

Publications

 

 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 3, February 2016

In Russian: here

 

The economic situation in Russia and its impact on migration in the Kyrgyz Republic

In Russian: http://www.nisi.kg/ru-researchesinkg-1465.

 

Labor migration and labor-intensive sectors in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: opportunities for human development in Central Asia

In Russian: here

 

 

Announcements

 

 

Head of Migration Programs, Moscow

In Russian: https://www.icrc.org/ru/who-we-are/jobs/opportunity/rukovoditel-programm-po-migracii-g-moskva

 

 


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Email: tspc@auca.kg

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