American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 25

NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 25

 

Date: August 3-9, 2012

Kazakhstan

 

Astana among top three capitals of CIS countries regarding salary level

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:1038557/ or here.

 

Prosecutor's Office of South Kazakhstan oblast to check work of Migration Police

In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=367632.

 

Atyrau oblast registers lowest unemployment in the country

In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2484592.

 

About 500 residents of Akmola oblast get employed through Employment Program

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2485672.

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Next forum of compatriots “Mekendeshter” to be held in 2014

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:1037651/ or here.

 

Government proposes to simplify assigning ‘kairylman’ status to ethnic Kyrgyz people

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:1038021/ or here.

 

Students’ admission to universities to be based on planning and forecasting of labor market in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38100.

 

Members of the First World Congress of Kyrgyz people and Compatriots urge to join efforts to implement the goals and objectives of the Congress

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38286.

 

"Mekendeshter" Forum identifies main problems of Kyrgyzstan’s economy

In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/economy/2012/08/03/196028_na_foryme_ mekendeshter_nazvali_glavnye_problemy_ekonomiki_kyrgyzstana.html.

 

Monthly salary increases by 182 som in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/economy/2012/08/08/196449_za_mesiac_ zarplaty_kyrgyzstancev_vyrosli_na_182_soma.html.

 

Otunbayeva on two forums of compatriots: No one is willing to share

In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news:1037541/ or here.

 

Kubanychbek Isabekov: “We have no state policy to protect labor migrants’ rights”

In Russian: http://www.knews.kg/ru/society/19705/.

 

Jamilahan Begieva: “We should prevent Kyrgyzstan of becoming professions provider of loaders and washerwomen”

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/39130/59.py.

 

Munara Toktomushova: “Government should provide moral and legal support to solve problems of migrants abroad”

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38446.

 

Compatriot from Tyumen (Russia) intends to invest two million dollars in development projects in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38442.

 

Compatriot-entrepreneurs intend to open a laboratory for export of local organic products in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/economics/full/38088.

 

Compatriot in Turkey proposes to develop a project to teach their mother tongue to Kyrgyz children living abroad

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38118.

 

Human resources become more expensive in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20120807/12100.html.

 

"Kyrgyzstan" Business Forum to be held in Istanbul on August 24-26

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38080.

 

Compatriot from Kazakhstan offers to open KG House abroad

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/38134.

 

Tajikistan

 

Tajikistan offers to speed up the process of drafting the agreement with the RF on recruitment of migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikistan-predlagaet-uskorit-podgotovku-soglasheniya-s-rf-po-organizovannomu-naboru-migranto.

 

Migration Service intends to employ Tajik migrants in South Korea

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/migratsionnaya-sluzhba-namerena-trudoustraivat-tadzhikskikh-migrantov-v-yuzhnoi-koree.

 

Round table at the Russian FMS on "Responsibility strengthening for violations of the Russian migration legislation"

In Russian: http://www.tajmigration.ru/news/kruglyi-stol-v-fms-rossii-na-temu-%C2%ABusilenie-otvetstvennosti-za-narushenie-rossiiskogo-migratsio.

 

Immigrants from Tajikistan settle down in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/pereselentsy-iz-tadzhikistana-obustraivayutsya-v-birobidzhane.

 

Dushanbe ranks 9th in average monthly salary among CIS capitals

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/dushanbe-zanimaet-9-mesto-po-urovnyu-srednikh-ezhemesyachnykh-zarplat-sredi-stolits-sng.

 

90,000 Tajik migrants work in Moscow oblast legally

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/legalno-na-territorii-moskovskoi-oblasti-rabotaet-90-tys-tadzhikskikh-grazhdan.

 

Badakhshan internet blackout dries up critical remittance inflows

In English: http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/tajikistan/viewstory.aspx?id=12540.

 

Belarus to employ Tajiks deported from Russia

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/08/09/belorussiya_trudoustroit_ deportirovannykh_iz_rossii_grazhdan_tadzhikistana.

 

Migrant workers can change course of presidential campaign in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/08/08/trudovye_migranty_mogut_ izmenit_khod_prezidentskoy_kampanii_v_tadzhikistane.

 

Krasnodar thanks Tajik labor migrants for help

In Russian: http://www.pressa.tj/news/tadzhikskih-trudovyh-migrantov-poblagodarili-za-pomoshch-okazannuyu-v-krasnodarskom-krae.

 

Russia continues shooting feature film about the life of migrants

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-rossii-prodolzhayutsya-semki-khudozhestvennogo-filma-o-zhizni-migrantov.

 

Moscow to host competition among Tajik migrants: readers of the Koran

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-moskve-proidet-konkurs-chtetsov-korana-sredi-tadzhikskikh-migrantov.

 

Uzbekistan

 

Young highly qualified specialists

In Russian: http://www.jahonnews.uz/rus/rubriki/ekonomika/molodie_ visokokvalifiirovannie_kadri1.mgr.

 

Efforts to support entrepreneurship

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/business/20243/.

 

Mukhlisa gets a job

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/20230/.

 

Adygei stops activity of illegal migrants from Uzbekistan

In Russian: http://01.mvd.ru/news/vnim/292281/.

 

Russia

 

FMS: Punishment for foreign nationals violating immigration laws to be toughened

In Russian: http://er.ru/news/2012/8/3/v-fms-rasschityvayut-chto-migracionnoe-zakonodatelstvo-budet-uzhestocheno-do-konca-goda/.

 

D. Medvedev: We should not be afraid of migrants, we should control them

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/medvedev-migrantov-ne-nado-boyatsya-imi-nado-upravlyat.

 

FMS: No amnesty for illegal migrants

In Russian: http://www.migrocenter.org/news/1344062691/.

 

5 years in prison for organizing illegal migration

In Russian: http://www.dp.ru/a/2012/08/08/Organizatorov_nezakonnoj/.

 

Medvedev called the formation of enclaves in Russia unacceptable

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/society/5338472.

 

Ministry of Education and Science introduces amendments in procedures of school admission for 'locals' and migrants

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/08/03/Minobrnauki-vnes-izmeneniya-v-poryadok-priema-v-shkoly-dlya-mestnykh-i-migrantov-295352.

 

Russia receives eight million migrants

In Russian: http://briansk.ru/world/v-rossiu-priehali-8-millionov-migrantov.201289.281055.html.

 

More than 37,500 migrants banned from entry into Russia in last six months

In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/08/09/Zapret-na-vezd-v-Rossiyu-za-poslednie-polgoda-poluchili-bolee-375-tysyach-migrantov--glava-FMS-296792.

 

Foreign nationals are banned from selling in the streets – Smolny

In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1558908.html.

 

Number of migrants wishing to work in the Southern Ural grows

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5413&Itemid=35.

 

Governor of Stavropol does not want to “filter” migrants and “squeeze them out”

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5438&Itemid=35.

 

New Friendship Park of CIS Population in Moscow oblast

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-moskovskoi-oblasti-poyavitsya-park-druzhby-narodov-sng.

 

Multilateral

 

Assistance center for labor migrants from Central Asia opens in St. Petersburg

In Russian: http://www.newspb.ru/allnews/1558561/.

 

The Economist Intelligence Unit: Remittances to former Soviet states begin to decline

In English: http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=1039177488&Country=Kyrgyz%20Republic&topic=Economy.

 

International News

 

France and Germany in the lead among the EU countries regarding number of asylum seekers

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/politics/9813701/.

 

Analytics

 

Does the current generation of migrants have a future?

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5368&Itemid=35.

 

All nations are equal. But not all are suspicious

In Russian: http://wordyou.ru/v-rossii/vse-nacii-ravny-no-ne-vse-podozritelny.html.

 

"Mekendeshter" forum does not reveal the phenomenon of migration

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/kyrgyzstan_forum_compatriots/24665917.html.

 

Migration laws can be copied from other countries

In Russian: http://spb.rbc.ru/daily/07/08/2012/663402.shtml.

 

Kyrgyz migrants: Kyrgyz citizens abroad often disappear without a trace and are found in prisons

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/39110/616.py.

 

Alexander Tkachev: “To fight Cossack troops with illegal migrants”

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5372&Itemid=35.

 

Opportunity for migrants – alliance of Kazan and Kant

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5349&Itemid=35.

 

Mekendeshter Forum: First, there was a word

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/134386-forum-laquomekendeshterraquo-snachala-bylo-slovo.html.

 

Migrant workers often suffer from dishonest employers and officials – declare participants of meeting in Krasnodar

In Russian: http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/210665/.

 

Situation with illegal migration in Primorye is under control

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5428&Itemid=35.

 

G. Faskhutdinov: How Tajikistan trains for Russian language test

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1344327540.

 

Publications

 

“Migration policy in CIS countries: needs and alternatives”, P. Kazmarkevich, Open Society Foundation, 2011

In Russian: http://lgi.osi.hu/cimg/0/1/4/1/8/Migratsionnaja_politika_v_stranah_ SNG_poterbnosti_i_alternativy_2.pdf.

 

“We are in Russia”, IOM, 2012

In Russian: http://moscow.iom.int/russian/publications/Info-Centre_leaflets/Journal_man.pdf.

 

International Migration, Vol. 50 (4) 2012

In English: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=817.

 

Announcements

 

Seminar of IOM World Migration Report 2011

In English: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/events/eventAS/cache/offonce?entryId=32092.

 


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