American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 55

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 55

Date: November 01 – 14, 2013             

Kazakhstan

 

  Kazakh Parliament adopted amendments to the Law on Migration

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/53181/.

 

Migration issues - under special control

In Russian: here.

 

Senate of Kazakhstan proposes to take fingerprints of migrant workers

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1975261.

 

Kazakhstan complicate employment for migrants from Kyrgyzstan in 2014

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1972281.

 

17.5 thousand jobs created in the city from the beginning of 2013 - Akim of Almaty

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2601740.

 

Majilis approved amendments to legislative acts on labour migration

In Russian: http://www.bnews.kz/ru/news/post/126473/.

 

Almaty launched a three-day working off "Migrant"

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4585833-v-almaty-startovala-trekhdnevnaja.html.

 

Ministry of Labour calms down: not so much labour migrants in Kazakhstan, compared with other countries

In Russian: here.

 

Salamat Amanbaev : Quota for foreign labour to attract highly skilled specialists

In Russian: http://www.lada.kz/aktau_news/society/13468-amanbaev-salamat-proekt-ob-ustanovlenii-kvoty-na-privlechenie-inostrannoy-rabochey-sily-prizvan-privlech-vysokokvalificirovannyh-specialistov.html.

 

Commission of the Committee on Migration visited the Centre of adaptation and integration of repatriates

In Russian: http://www.lada.kz/aktau_news/society/13468-amanbaev-salamat-proekt-ob-ustanovlenii-kvoty-na-privlechenie-inostrannoy-rabochey-sily-prizvan-privlech-vysokokvalificirovannyh-specialistov.html.

 

During 2013 about 76 thouand alien came to Astana 

In Russian: http://bnews.kz/ru/news/post/170284/.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Parliamentary committee developed a draft appeal from the Jokorku

Kenesh to the Russian parliament on migrant workers

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1967611.

 

Kyrgyzstan offered to cancel the registration of Kyrgyz citizens at the entrance to Kazakhstan

In Russian: here.

 

Migrant workers abroad influence even on the dollar in the Homeland

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1966371.

 

Two meetings passed near the Embassy of Russia in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Aigul Ryskulova: "The establishment of quotas for migrant workers contributes to corruption"

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/65885.

 

Igor Shestakov: "The low involvement of government agencies in the processes of migration leads to an increase in illegal migration"

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/65918.

 

Association "Zamandash" asks state agencies to join forces in addressing the problems of migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66058.

 

About 4 thousand citizens of Kyrgyzstan in South Korea today

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1971661.

 

133 thousand Kyrgyz citizens received work permits in Russia during the first 9 months of 2013 - the Federal Migration Service

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1965091.

 

The rally in Osh against the actions of Russia toward migrant workers ended without incident

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyzstan made suggestions on formation of labor market in CIS

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40030/3.py

 

Kyrgyz people take part in the development of the Migration Board in Moscow

In Russian: here.

 

Kyrgyzstan's accession to the Customs Union does not entail automatic preference to migrants

На русском: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1965251.

 

Kyrgyzstan created small community councils on the rights of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Workshop on employment issues held for residential community neighborhood committees of Bishkek

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1976901.

 

About the consequences of illegal domestic migration in Kyrgyzstan informed at a meeting of the Board of a large public

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1987831.

 

Suggested to develop a document guaranteeing the rights for workers

In Russian: here.

 

Fedor Chernitsyn: "The Customs Union will not ensure free movement of Kyrgyz migrants in other CU countries"

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/economics/full/66208.

 

Tekebayev: Migrants who have acquired the citizenship of another country, should have the opportunity to purchase land in private ownership by return home

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/parlament/164716-omurbek-tekebaev-migranty-poluchivshie.html.

 

Migrants from Kyrgyzstan cannot pay loans back because of the closure of markets in Mytischi and Strogino

In Russian: here.

 

Migration lessons for high school students in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/164946-v-issyk-kulskoj-oblasti-kyrgyzstana-dlya.html.

 

According to official data, 60% of Kyrgyz labor migrants in the host country do not have access to medical services

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66326.

 

About 264 thousand Kyrgyz migrants in Russia are at risk

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/66149.

 

2402 Kyrgyzstani from the beginning of the year received Russian citizenship according to the Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20131111/18717.html.

 

Dubai now employs 870 Kyrgyz citizens - Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1979201.

 

96,000 registered unemployed in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/164722-v-kyrgyzstane-na-uchete-stoyat-96-tysyach.html.

 

Labor Ministry helps to employ 30,000 people in Kyrgyzstan

In English: here

 

 

Tajikistan

 

  Tajik opposition asks workers not to go to the polls

In Russian: here.  

 

Tajik migrant workers in Russia started early voting in the presidential elections

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/node/175900.

 

For half a year more than $ 1.6 billion transferred from Russia to Tajikistan

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/iz-rossii-v-tadzhikistan-za-polgoda-perevedeno-bolee-16-mlrd.

 

Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan: The process of ratification of the agreement on migrants ends

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/posol-rf-v-tadzhikistane-protsess-ratifikatsii-soglasheniya-po-migrantam-zavershaetsya.

 

Dushanbe is necessary to achieve the legalization of labor migrants in Russia - the representatives of the EDB

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/business/21425-dushanbe-nuzhno-dobivatsya-legalizacii-trudovyh-migrantov-v-rossii-predstaviteli-eabr.html.

 

Consular Service of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow moved into enhanced mode

In Russian: here.

 

World Bank: In Tajikistan, 59 % of the population has work

In Russian: here.

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

  New jobs

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/business/25920/.

 

Employment - an urgent task

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/25981/.

 

Fingerprinted to get a Schengen visa in Uzbekistan

In Russian: here.

 

Complained to Karimov on the lack of protection of Uzbek migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/exussr/2013/11/11/1197988.html.

 

Valentina Matviyenko expressed in Tashkent for the strict observance of the legislation in the field of migration

In Russian: here.  

 

 

Russia

 

  Putin against stricter immigration laws

In Russian: here.

 

At the Moscow government set up a working group on migration

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/760-pri-pravitelstve-moskvy-sozdana-rabochaya-gruppa-po-voprosam-migratsii.

 

Russia gave its approval to a new stream of migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/economics/2013-11-06/1_gastarbaitery.html.

 

Putin tightened the rules for selling SIM-cards

In Russian: http://www.finmarket.ru/news/3538944.

 

Russian "black list" of migrants increases

In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/10/40033/719.py.

 

Media: Russia wants to ban stay in Russia for foreigners without visas for more than 90 days

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2013/11/14/1199243.html.

 

Government can support NGOs to help workers adapt to the Russian Federation

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2013/11/13/1198764.html.

 

Head of the Committee on Labor and Employment proposed to replace workers unemployed

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/piter/2013/11/08/1197347.html.

 

Community organizations to adapt workers

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2013/11/13/migranti-site-anons.html.

 

Work visas will not solve the problem of migrants in the Russian Federation, said Kudrin

In Russian: http://ria.ru/world/20131114/976932294.html.

 

Municipalities are allowed to participate in the coordination of quotas for migrants

In Russian: http://www.itar-tass.com/borba-s-nelegalnoy-migraciey/757393.

 

Rogozin proposed to tighten the rules of stay of migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://www.avesta.tj/sociaty/21423-rogozin-predlozhil-uzhestochit-pravila-prebyvaniya-migrantov-v-rossii.html

 

 

Multilateral

 

Experts: a unified system of migrant centers in Russia and Central Asia is needed

In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20131101/974322807.html.

 

Regulation of migration processes in the CIS countries would be discussed in Minsk

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/world-news/full/66160.

 

 

International News

 

Europol opened an international network on forging documents for

migrants

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2601985.

 

Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia

In English: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/11/07/growing-with-jobs-in-europe-and-central-asia.

 

 

Analytics

 

  Asian revision. What would happen if Russia will close from  migrants

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1974681.

 

Biryulevsk events have nothing to do with migration issues

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1965491.

 

"People's news of Tajikistan" on illegal migration

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1962301.

 

Human rights activists on labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Russia and Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1965951.

 

Russia said "no" to illegal immigrants

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1963471.

 

The third way to migrate

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2013/11/01/1195270.html.

 

Migrants return

In Russian: here.

 

"Improvement of the legal regulation of the status of seasonal workers employed in agriculture" - the results of the study

In Russian: http://articles.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=387886.

 

Laws on migration

In Russian: http://vlast.kz/article/zakony_migracii-3369.html.

 

Migrants: Without a sense of security

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/migranty-bez-chuvstva-zashchity.

 

How a student of Moscow State University spent a week in the shoes of a migrant worker

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/kak-student-mgu-nedelyu-prozhil-v-shkure-trudovogo-migranta.

 

Guest workers recognized by ID. Near Moscow authorities placed priorities of migration policy - the "MK"

In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1383568140.

 

Legalize cheaper than deport

In Russian: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2340458.

 

Michael Aghajanian: Rahmon between China and Russia and a factor in the election of migrants in Tajikistan

In Russian: http://for.kg/news-243738-ru.html.

 

Russia for the Russian a long ago: do not be afraid of the threat of migrants - expert Sergey Abashin

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1981941.

 

Russian business is ready to train future labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1984131.

 

Six false myths about migrants that are easily dispelled

In Russian: http://news.namba.kg/read.php?id=1992081.

 

"Improvement of the legal regulation of the status of seasonal workers employed in agriculture" - the results of the study

In Russian: http://articles.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=387886.

 

Growing number of migrants from China in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/kyrgyzstan_china_migrants/25164009.html.

 

 

Publications

 

Report on the results of monitoring of services provided by diplomatic

missions and consular offices of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://anticorruption.kg/wp-content/uploads/2013-10-23_otchet-po-rezultatam-monitoringa-uslug-dippredstavitelstv-i-konsulstv-kr-v-rossii-i-kazahstane.pdf.

 

"Kommersant" Magazine

In Russian: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2327277.

 

 


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