NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 22

Labor and Social Protection Ministry: Regional Employment Map to be developed in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://kazpravda.kz/c/1342177334.

Kazakhstani youth to promote the President’s idea on formation of Universal Labor Society in the RK

In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2480087.

More than 50 thousand Kazak citizens participate in “Employment - 2020” Program in first period of 2012

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1023061/ or here.

Internal migration in Kazakhstan decreases by 3.1%

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1020891/ or here.

Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry reminds about registration procedure for citizens staying in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/37053.

Issues of legitimate rights’ and interests’ protection of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan in Russia to be discussed in Bishkek

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1023171/ or here.

"Zamandash" Association: The World Congress of Kyrgyzstanis and Compatriots to become a global platform for partnership

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/biznes-info/133149-associaciya-laquozamandashraquo-vsemirnyj.html.

Expert: Remittances from migrant workers are not invested in their children's education

In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/society/2012/07/18/194799_ekspert_perevody_ot_ gastarbayterov_ne_vkladyvaut_v_obrazovanie_detey.html.

About 3 thousand unemployed attend "Job Fair", 48% of them get job placement in Bishkek

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1023511/ or here.

Vice-President of CCI, A. Davletaliev: Despite the large number of unemployed, companies need qualified specialists

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1024881/ or here.

Mars Sariev: I have high hopes for the World Congress of Compatriots and Kyrgyz people

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/biznes-info/133378-mars-sariev-ya-vozlagayu-bolshie-nadezhdy-na.html.

More than 6000 people in search of work in Osh

In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/regions/2012/07/16/194518_v_oshe_na_ychete_v_ poiskah_raboty_sostoiat_bolee_6_tysiach_chelovek.html.

Compatriots from abroad to host classical music concert in Bishkek in the framework of the "Mekendeshter" forum

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/science-and-culture/full/37071.

Crew of “Salam New York” movie arrives in New York

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/science-and-culture/full/37128.

Tajikistan’s Migration Service holds a Board meeting on results of the 1st half of 2012

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/sostoyalas-kollegiya-migratsionnoi-sluzhby-pri-pravitelstve-rt-po-itogam-raboty-za-i-oe-polugod.

World Bank to help Tajikistan in organization of pre-migratory centers

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/vsemirnyi-bank-pomozhet-tadzhikistanu-v-organizatsii-domigratsionnykh-tsentrov.

Tajik migrants can now make free calls to the Migration Service of the RT

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikskie-migranty-poluchat-vozmozhnost-besplatno-zvonit-v-migratsionnuyu-sluzhbu-rt.

MS of the RT in the RF: Protocol of the roundtable in Volgograd

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/zasedanie-kruglogo-stola.

Meeting of the Head of Tajikistan’s Migration Service with the CEO of Labor Exchange «COMRUD» in the Russian Federation

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/vstrecha-rukovoditelya-predstavitelstva-ms-rt-v-rf-s-generalnym-direktorom-birzhi-truda-%C2%ABcomrud.

An open letter to the President of Tajikistan from the Tajik Migration Service officer

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/07/19/pismo or here.

More than 32 thousand Tajiks improve qualification in training centers for adults

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/bolee-32-tys-tadzhikistantsev-povysili-kvalifikatsiyu-v-tsentrakh-po-obucheniyu-vzroslogo-nasel.

U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe stops issuing visas for children, citizens of Tajikistan, listed in their parents' passports

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1022771/ or here.

Only a few Tajik migrant workers confirm their qualification in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/lish-edinitsy-iz-tadzhikskikh-migrantov-podtverdili-svoyu-kvalifikatsiyu-v-peterburge.

Report on celebration of Tajik festival "Sairi lola" in Novosibirsk

In Russian: На русском: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/o-provedenii-v-gnovosibirske-meropriyatiya-posvyashchennogo-tadzhikskomu-festivalyu-%C2%ABsairi-lola.

Public Association "Didor" in Sverdlovsk marks its anniversary

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/torzhestvo-posvyashchennoe-yubileyu-obrazovaniya-sverdlovskogo-obshchestvennogo-obedineniya-%C2%ABdi.

Another appeal of labor migrants regarding unpaid salaries

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/ocherednoe-obrashchenie-trudovykh-migrantov-po-nevyplate-zarabotnoi-platy.

Great opportunities and benefits for entrepreneurs

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/20024/.

Youth gets employed

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/19961/.

We are immensely pleased about attention on and encouragement for our work

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/19957/.

Assessment of our work is appreciated

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/19989/.

RF Government Decree No 711 “On issues of Federal Migration Service”, dated July 13, 2012

In Russian: http://www.garant.ru/hotlaw/federal/409084/.

LDPR activists demand to stop illegal migration

In Russian: http://www.postsovet.ru/blog/russia/347710.html.

New Russian Migration Policy Concept to be tougher

In Russian: http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=851667.

Department of the FMS look for house owners where migrants live en masse

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/UFMS-ischet-khozyaev-domov-gde-massovo-prozhivayut-migranty-291662.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opens Migration Control Unit

In Russian: http://pik.ua/news/url/v_umvd_sozdan_otdel_militsii_migratsionnogo_kontrolja.

Accommodation in tenement houses for Gastarbeiter become cheaper by one-half

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/Zhilploschad-v-dokhodnykh-domakh-dlya-gastarbaiterov-podeshevela-vdvoe-291635.

A ward for migrants’ children may be arranged in Dolgoprudny hospital

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inregions/center/50/society/9622820/.

Migrant workers in line for deportation

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/Gastarbaitery-vstayut-v-ochered-na-vydvorenie-291644.

St. Petersburg’s employers to be obliged to pay salary of not less than 15,000 to migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5125&Itemid=35.

St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast lack “Gastarbeiter" quota

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/Peterburgu-i-Lenoblasti-ne-khvataet-gastarbaiterskikh-kvot-291654.

More than 3 million foreigners arrived in St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast since the beginning of this year

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/S-nachala-goda-v-Peterburg-i-Lenoblast-priekhali-bolee-3-mln-inostrantcev-291634.

Penalties for violation of migration laws in Tomsk oblast exceed 8 million rubles

In Russian: http://www.70rus.org/more.php?UID=18624.

Tajiks illegally lived in Terbunsky raion /region

In Russian: http://lrnews.ru/news/full/42039/.

More "aliens" in the country

In Russian: http://oprf.ru/press/news/2012/newsitem/18485.

Gastarbeiter to be forced to learn Russian

In Russian: http://www.profi-forex.org/news/entry1008132072.html.

Diasporas promise to control their compatriots

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5140&Itemid=35.

Avignon hosts an exhibition on the life of African migrants in France

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/society/9617797/.

V. Skosyrev: Beijing fears rising unemployment. Chinese Premier abolishes Asian index

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1342680000.

CBC: Migrants' Lives in Canada (video)

In English: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2256843805/.

The Concept won’t stop migration

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/17/Kontceptciya-ne-ostanovit-migratciyu-291740.

Temir Dzhumakadyrov: World Congress to be considered not only in Kyrgyzstan, but also in foreign countries

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/37152.

Expert: Putin’s distribution of citizenship to attract Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Tajik seniors to Russia

In Russian: http://ca-news.org/news:1021151/ or here.

Does Putin lack Russians?

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/07/14/1010772.html.

G. Osmonkulova: "Four out of five women in labor are Kyrgyz girls"

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1342425720.

Tatiana Protasenko: "Tension in St. Petersburg grows by 6 times due to migrant workers"

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/07/18/Tatyana-Protasenko-Napryazhennost-iz-za-migrantov-v-Peterburge-vyrosla-v-6-raz-291959.

A. Balivarov: Patience and effort... The overwhelming majority of legal immigration to Kazakhstan are Oralman

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1342425600.

Opponents of the "Patriots" solve the problem the "Kyrgyz" way

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/kyrgyzstan_kyrgyz_yntymagy_patriot/ 24642497.html.

Family business is a source of well-being

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/business/20015/.

Book on features of migration policy issued in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/07/18/izdana_kniga_ob_osobennostyakh_ migracionnoy_politiki.

IOM Tajikistan: Newsletter - June 2012

In English: http://www.iom.tj/pubs/june12.pdf.

New issue published of “Your right. Migration” № 14, July 2012

In Russian: http://migratsia.ru/blog/vyshel_v_svet_ocherednoj_nomer_gazety_vashe_pravo_ migracija_nbsp_14_ijul_2012_goda/2012-07-13-108.

IOM-MPI Issue in Brief No. 3 - Asian Labor Migrants and Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from Libya

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=49&products_id=815.

“Resource Center for the Elderly” Public Union, Kyrgyzstan, announces vacancy for Migration Project Coordinator

In Russian: here.

Coping Strategies: Public Avoidance, Migration, and Marriage in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Fergana Valley

In English: http://www.ucentralasia.org/news.asp?Nid=371.

Tender: Developing Migration Profile of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://iom.kg/?p=724.