News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 19 (2018)

Migration center opened in Almaty

In Russian: https://kapital.kz/gosudarstvo/71823/migracionnyj-con-otkryli-v-almaty.htm.

World migration flows to intensify - expert

In Russian: here.

Meeting on the issues of internal migration held in Bishkek

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/v-bishkeke-prokhodit-vstrecha-po-obsuzhdeniiu-voprosov-vnutrennei-migratcii.

How to insure departing people, think in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

Kyrgyz Migration Service Chairman met with Kyrgyz people in Russia

In Russian: here.

Migration Service: to issue ‘Meken card’ for migrants, which retains citizens' rights for Kyrgyz citizens

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/sluzhba-migratcii-migrantam-razdadut-meken-karty-kotoraia-sokhranit-za-kyrgyzstantcami-prava-grazhdanina.

Representatives of UNHCR and the Migration Service of Kyrgyz Republic discussed issues related to protection of refugees' rights

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/predstaviteli-uvkb-oon-i-sluzhby-migratcii-kr-obsudili-voprosy-po-zashchite-prav-bezhentcev.

For seven months, migrants remitted $ 1.5 billion to Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

18% of Kyrgyzstan population are internal migrants

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/18-naseleniia-kyrgyzstana-iavliaiutsia-vnutrennimi-migrantami.

Among foreign workers in Kyrgyzstan prevail citizens of China

In Russian: here.

Only half of the migrants from KR in Russia know Russian language

In Russian: here.

More than half of surveyed internal migrants plan to go abroad

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/bolee-poloviny-oproshennykh-vnutrennikh-migrantov-planiruiut-uekhat-za-granitcu.

Most of internal migrants received secondary school education

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/bol-shaia-chast-vnutrennikh-migrantov-poluchili-srednee-shkol-noe-obrazovanie.

Internal migrants flow in Kyrgyzstan - statistics

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/otkuda-i-kuda-vyezzhaiut-vnutrennie-migranty-kyrgyzstana-statistika.

551 Kyrgyz citizens applied to migration service in Russia with a complaint about non-payment of wages

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/v-sluzhbu-migratcii-v-rossii-obratilis-551-kyrgyzstanetc-s-zhalobo-i-ne-vyplate-zarplaty.

75 private agencies help Kyrgyzstan find a job abroad

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstantcam-trudoustroit-sia-za-rubezhom-pomogaiut-75-chastnykh-agentstv.

Migration Service advises Kyrgyz citizens distrust in announcements on working abroad through radio cabinets in bazaars

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/sluzhba-migratcii-sovetuet-kyrgyzstantcam-ne-verit-ob-iavleniiam-o-rabote-za-rubezhom-cherez-radiorubki-na-bazarakh.

Ministry of Education: Problems of crowding in Bishkek's schools related to migration processes

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/minobrazovaniia-problemy-peregruzhennosti-shkol-bishkeka-sviazany-s-protcessami-migratcii.

"Human trafficking" one of the main problems for labor migrants - State Service of Migration

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/torgovlia-liud-mi-iavliaetsia-odnoi-iz-osnovnykh-problem-dlia-trudovykh-migrantov-gossluzhba-migratcii.

Internal migrants have access to all state services in any territory of the country - Sharsheev

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/vnutrennie-migranty-imeiut-dostup-ko-vsem-gosuslugam-na-liuboi-territorii-strany-sharsheev.

Most migrants have enough money for food and clothing, but not for household appliances

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/bol-shinstvu-migrantov-khvataet-deneg-na-edu-i-odezhdu-no-ne-na-bytovuiu-tekhniku.

Portrait of an internal migrant

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/6701-infografika-portret-vnutrennego-migranta-.

Uzbek migrants in South Korea to protect their rights easier

In Russian: https://podrobno.uz/cat/obchestvo/uzbekskim-migrantam-v-yuzhnoy-.

Uzbekistan is ahead of almost the entire planet in terms of remittances from Russia. Switzerland outstripped

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/economic/20180913/uzbekistan-operedil-tadzhikistan-po-obemu-denezhnih-perevodov-iz-rossi.

In 2018, about 1 million people left Uzbekistan for work

In Russian: https://regnum.ru/news/economy/2477628.htm.

Russian government intends to reduce number of migrants in construction

In Russian: here.

EAEU reduced number of cases of forced labor of migrants and trafficking in human beings

In Russian: here.

Causes of internal migration

In Russian: https://m.gezitter.org/economics/72919_vyiyavlenyi_prichinyi_vnutrenney_migratsii_.

Life in forced migration. Why more and more Kyrgyz citizens are renouncing their citizenship

In Russian: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29490467.htm.

ILO launches 2018 global media competition on labor migration and fair recruitment

In English: https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/labour-migration/news-statements/WCMS_644858/lang--en/index.ht.