News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 51
Date: September 06 – 19, 2013
Kazakhstan
| To legalize guest workers in Kazakhstan In Russian: here. 
 Procedure for extending the period of stay in Russia was explained to labor migrants from Kazakhstan In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/sng/trudovyim-migrantam-kazahstana-razyyasnili-poryadok-prodleniya-sroka-241376/. 
 EBRD Delegates discussed the problems of Eurasian continental integration on the "Eurasia 2013" forum in Astana In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/158279/. 
 Since the beginning of the year 173,690 people arrived in Kazakhstan In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/157870/. 
 More than 150,000 Chinese nationals arrived in Kazakhstan for three years In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/bolee-150-tyisyach-grajdan-kitaya-priehali-v-kazahstan-za-tri-goda-241126/. 
 Cabinet to discuss implementation of program on single-industry towns development In English: here. 
 About 23 thousand citizens of the CIS countries migrated to Kazakhstan in 2012 In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/159730/. 
 About 600 jobs presented at a job fair in Almaty In Russian: http://inform.kz/rus/article/2589412. 
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Kyrgyzstan
| Government approved the Employment Promotion and regulation of external labor migration Programme till 2020 (text) In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1790882. 
 Kyrgyzstan again raised the issue of migration in the CIS In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/39862/762.py. 
 Offer to create a system of organized labor migration among SCO In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1797582. 
 National Security Committee identified more than 30 fake companies involved in the organization of illegal migration of foreigners In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1804542. 
 Kyrgyz Diasporas in Russia appealed to the leadership of the Kyrgyz Republic on an ongoing campaign to combat illegal labor migration In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1800652. 
 Employment rate in Kyrgyzstan is 60% - Ministry of Labor In Russian: here. 
 33% of the adult population of Kyzyl-Kiya town went to work in Russia, and their children faint from hunger - City Department of Education In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1785892. 
 Public council for migration to create in Karakol In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1798772. 
 Kyrgyz filmmakers making a movie about contemporary issues in the lives of migrants in Moscow In Russian: http://www.24.kg/kino/160094-v-moskve-kyrgyzskie-rezhissery-snimayut-film-o.html. 
 Bishkek to discuss the impact of joining the CU on migration In Russian: here. 
 Labor Ministry to introduce a "single window" for migrants In Russian: here. 
 Issues of pensions payment for migrant workers to be resolved by the state - the Social Fund In Russian: here. 
 UNDP is ready to assist the Ministry of Labor, Youth and Migration in the implementation of joint projects In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/society/full/62757. 
 Kyrgyz Ministry of Labor and the ILO discussed the increase in employment among young people In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/62994. 
 National Security Committee detected a channel for illegal migration In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1805852. 
 Pensions of migrants to discuss with Russia In Russian: here. 
 Kyrgyz government urged to stand up for migrant workers In Russian: here. 
 Ajgul Ryskulova: Families of migrant workers face serious problems In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1824682. 
 TV project dedicated to Kyrgyz migrants in Moscow In Russian: http://www.kyrtag.kg/?q=ru/news/48804. 
 Main flow of migrants observed in the south of Kyrgyzstan In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1824482. 
 Memo in Kyrgyz issued for workers in the Kaluga region of Russia In Russian: here. 
 About 4 million unemployed registered in Talas In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1811712. 
 Kyrgyz cinemas filmed in Russia a feature film about migrant’s love In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1813242. 
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Tajikistan
| Chairman of the national part of the SCO Tajikistan "SCO countries should pay special attention to labor migration" In Russian: http://kabar.kg/rus/politics/full/62493. 
 Migrants from Tajikistan would be able to vote in the presidential elections abroad In Russian: here. 
 Opposition intends to defend the rights of migrants in support of candidates In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/node/170393. 
 SDPT Leader requests the participation of migrant workers to collect signatures In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/goverment/20296-lider-sdpt-prosit-obespechit-uchastie-trudovyh-migrantov-s-sbore-podpisey.html. 
 About 610 thousand people left Tajikistan for work for the first eight months In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/za-vosem-mesyatsev-iz-tadzhikistana-na-zarabotki-vyekhalo-okolo-610-tys-chelovek. 
 ORST demands to ensure the participation of migrant workers in petition In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/goverment/20374-orst-trebuet-obespechit-uchastie-trudovyh-migrantov-v-sbore-podpisey.html. 
 Yekaterinburg's rights activists intend to protect the Tajik labor migrants In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/ekaterinburgskie-pravozashchitniki-namereny-zashchitit-tadzhikskikh-trudovykh-migrantov. 
 About 39,000 people in Tajikistan were officially registered as unemployed in Jan-Aug 2013 In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/v-tadzhikistane-ofitsialno-bezrabotnymi-priznano-okolo-39-tys-chelovek. 
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Uzbekistan
| Kazakh border guards detained about 120 illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan In Russian: here. 
 Uzbekistan ranks first in the number of migrants in Bashkortostan In Russian: here. 
 Problems of providing employment discussed In Russian: http://www.uzinform.com/ru/news/20130918/19840.html. 
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Russia
| UN: Russia is the second in highest number of foreign workers In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20130912/962574036.html. 
 Migrants would be obliged to open a bank account In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/39858/33.py. 
 Hostility towards migrants among Russians is growing In Russian: http://www.interfax.ru/russia/news.asp?id=327988. 
 Newcomers from the provinces to replace labor migrants in Moscow In Russian: http://russian.rt.com/article/15312. 
 Prepare Violations quotas for Migrants In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/20336-migrantam-gotovyat-kvotu-pravonarusheniy.html. 
 200 words about migrants and Russia (video) In Russian: http://ria.ru/200words/20130912/962677441.html. 
 St. Petersburg: Volunteers helping migrants are looking for translators In Russian: here. 
 Migration Code of the Russian Federation would be prepared no earlier than 2015 In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20130919/964258234.html. 
 Duma is offering to target flows of migrants from Moscow to other regions In Russian: http://ria.ru/vladimir/20130919/964277699.html. 
 Remittances are not dangerous for Russian economy In Russian: http://ria.ru/economy/20130918/964149622.html. 
 Migrants may be required to have at least 36 thousand rubles at the entrance to the Russian Federation In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20130913/963088131.html. 
 More than 250 million migrant workers can lose their jobs in Russia In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1823142. 
 Migrants can legally work in the Russian Federation even without amnesty, said the head of the Federal Migration Service In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20130918/964145416.html. 
 Memo on employment issued for metropolitan workers In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/39883/127.py. 
 St.Petersburg hosts the G20 Summit In English: here. 
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Multilateral
| Number of immigrants in the U.S. increased by 447 thousand due to Asians In Russian: http://kabar.kg/world-news/full/63089. 
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International News
| World Migration In Russian: http://www.itar-tass.com/g53/4549.html. 
 Decisive action on jobs needed at G20, says ILO In English: here. 
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Analytics
| Subject on Migrants in Russian politics In Russian: http://www.fergananews.com/articles/7851. 
 Migrant’s Lexicon, or a certificate for 780 learned Russian words In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/39860/280.py. 
 Sergei Abashin: Migration and Religion would be the center of the new political and discursive configurations around the world In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1789912. 
 The heirs of the land In Russian: http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/oss/5640509.shtml. 
 Who and how to dispose of the voices of migrant workers in the elections in Tajikistan? In Russian: http://ostkraft.ru/ru/news/1112. 
 "Remote" migration center in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: http://rus.ruvr.ru/2013_09_08/V-Kirgizii-pojavilsja-vinosnoj-migracionnij-centr-7862/. 
 Generation of 90’s would not please the labor market In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/belorussia/economics/14673940/. 
 Without nationalism In Russian: http://slon.ru/russia/bez_natsionalizma-986937.xhtml. 
 Come in large numbers. Culture on xenophobia In Russian: here. 
 It is bad with immigrants, without migrants - no way? In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/09/12/S-migrantami-plokho-bez-migrantov---nikak-378985. 
 The pre-election nonsense In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0565/gazeta016.php. 
 Negative effects of migration for Kyrgyzstan - the "brain drain" and "washed out" of labor force - study In Russian: http://www.paruskg.info/2013/08/24/85927. 
 Russia: we are not against migrants from Central Asia, but it should be according to the law (photos) In Russian: here. 
 Russia's War on Foreigners In English: here. 
 Russians consider the migration of Chinese people "expansion" In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1818312. 
 Semen Baghdasarov:, if Tajikistan survives on migrants, where it takes money for Russian teachers? 
 At the tip of the migration In Russian: http://svpressa.ru/society/article/74189/. 
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Publications
| New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 18, September 2013 In Russian: here. 
 World Migration Report 2013 – Migrant Well-being and Development In English: here. 
 International Migration, Vol. 51(5) 2013 In English: here. 
 News on Labor migration, August 2013 In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/vestnik/08_2013/. 
 New Issue of “Compatriots” #9, September 2013 In Russian: here. 
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Announcements
| A Roundtable on Environment and Migration In English: https://auca.kg/en/tspcevents/892/. 
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