American University of Central Asia - AUCA - News Digest No 69

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 69

Date: May 16 – 29, 2014   

Kazakhstan

 

Kazakhstan developed a comprehensive plan for dealing with migration

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2659870.

 

Foreigners having a rare specialty can get a three-year quota in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://www.newskaz.ru/economy/20140519/6494918.html.

 

Migration legislation improved within CU

In Russian: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2660573.

 

On migration issues

In Russian: http://www.kazpravda.kz/ida.php?ida=56662.

 

Labor migrants officially to work in Kazakhstan

In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/news/trudovye-migranty-budut-oficialno-rabotat-v-kazakhstane-newsID396225.html.

 

Astana to host a roundtable discussion on "Migration and Development in the Customs Union"

In Russian: here.

 

Almost 5.5 thousand foreigners officially arrived to work in Astana

Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4625529-dlja-raboty-v-astanu-oficialno-pribylo.html.

 

Kazakhstan expects an increase in the inflow of highly skilled manpower from Russia and Belarus

In Russian: http://www.interfax.kz/?lang=rus&int_id=quotings_of_the_day&news_id=8120.

 

Labor of Kazakhstan intends to prescribe legislative levers to encourage migration from the southern to the northern regions - S. Amanbaev

In Russian: here.

 

Popular regions for internal migration are named in Ministry of Labor

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/kazakhstan/economics/18238469/.

 

Causes of emigration of young people of Kazakhstan are out

In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/news/stali-izvestny-prichiny-ehmigracii-molodezhi-kazakhstana-newsID396449.html.

 

High Level Participants at IOM’s Roundtable on “Migration and Development  in Customs’ Union”, during the 2014 VII Astana Economic Forum, discussed on Migration Policy in Kazakhstan

In English: http://www.iom.kz/ru/new/108-aefnews.

 

Foreigners arrived in Kazakhstan would be able to register in hotels

In Russian: http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/priehavshie-v-kazahstan-inostrantsyi-smogut-proyti-registratsiyu-v-gostinitsah-255933/.

 

The situation in the field of migration

In Russian: http://www.kazpravda.kz/news/view/17053.

 

More than 13.5 million tenge charges migration police of the Almaty region from foreigners

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4626883-bolee-135-mln-tg-vzyskala-migracionnaja.html.

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

Children of internal migrants in Kyrgyzstan are most discriminated

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/rus/society/full/76524.

 

Joining the CU called fraught rising unemployment in the south

In Russian: here.

 

J. Otorbaev: 2.5 billion $ of total GDP of for the KR is money of migrant workers

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/1748-dzh-otorbaev-iz-obschego-ob'ema-vvp-kr-2,5-mlrd-dollarov-%E2%80%93eto-dengi-trudovyh-migrantov.html.

 

Knowledge on labor migration increase in Osh oblast

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/179219-v-oshskoj-oblasti-povyshayut-znaniya-po-voprosam.html.

 

Labor Ministry offers to adopt the Programme on internal migration in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://kg.akipress.org/news:598305

 

Human Rights Council pointed out the problems in the registration of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Study: Labor Ministry should compile a database of all migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Study: Kyrgyzstan needs direct representations of migrants

In Russian: here.

  

Study: Russian authorities are not aimed at the adaptation of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Poletaev: Kyrgyz diaspora across Russia does not have system

In Russian: here.  

 

Experts suggest creating a center for the selection of migrants in the Russian Federation

In Russian: here.

 

Expert: Commercial organizations will not be able to defend the rights of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Expert: Diasporas in Russia earn on Migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Expert: Russian trade unions play a role of opponents of labor migration

In Russian: here.

 

Experts suggested two solutions to the issue of pensions of migrants

In Russian: here.

 

International labor standards on social security – capacity building training workshop in Kyrgyzstan

In English: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/moscow/news/2014/0521.htm.

 

Events around Ukraine threaten remittances decrease in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: here.

 

Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia to visit Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/news/25402541.html.

 

1.2 million people entered - 986 000 emigrated in Russia from Kyrgyzstan for 2012-2013

In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20140528/20047.html.

 

Small community councils on migration created in the city of Osh and Jalal- Abad region

In Russian : here.

 

 

Tajikistan

 

Representatives of the migration service become familiar with the activities of specialized agencies of the Russian Federation for Migration

In Russian: http://tajmigration.ru/news/192-predstaviteli-migracionnoy-sluzhby-oznakomyatsya-s-deyatelnostyu-profilnyh-uchrezhdeniy-rf-po-migracii.html.

 

Mobile Communication in Russia and Tajikistan on the one SIM-card - it's possible!

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/mobilnaya-svyaz-v-rossii-i-tadzhikistane-s-odnoi-sim-kartoi-eto-vozmozhno.

 

Representatives of St. Petersburg arrive in Tajikistan to establish centers for migrants

In Russian: here.

 

Tajik migrants returned to their homeland

In Russian: here.

 

Immigration authorities upheld the right of eight citizens of Tajikistan to remain in Moscow

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/migratsionnye-vlasti-otstoyali-pravo-vosmi-grazhdan-tadzhikistana-ostatsya-v-moskve.

 

New Ambassador of Tajikistan in Moscow: Issues of labor migrants will be priority

In Russian: http://rus.ozodi.org/content/article/25396030.html.

 

IMF: Sanctions against Russia will affect the economy of Tajikistan

In Russian: here.

 

Tajikistan studies the Philippines’ experience in regulating labor migration

In Russian: http://www.news.tj/ru/news/tadzhikistan-izuchaet-opyt-filippin-v-sfere-regulirovaniya-trudovoi-migratsii

 

 

Uzbekistan

 

Consulate of Uzbekistan in Germany became worried about migrants

In Russian: http://www.uznews.net/ru/society/26350-konsulstvo-uzbekistana-v-germanii-zabespokoilos-o-migrantah.

 

Ensure youth employment

In Russian: http://uza.uz/ru/society/28604/.

 

 

Russia

 

Jobs in Russia are taken by people who come from the former Soviet Union - Putin

In Russian: http://thenews.kz/2014/05/17/1582930.html.

 

Migrants to learn the Russian language in Moscow mosques

In Russian: http://meta.kz/novosti/russia/890173-migranty-vyuchat-russkiy-yazyk-vmoskovskih-mechetyah.html.

 

Media: Employers in Russia to attract migrants to learn the Russian language

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/politics/18209093/.

 

Moscow resumes program of cultural adaptation of migrants

In Russian: http://izvestia.ru/news/570767.

 

Flow entering Russia decreased by 17% - FMS

In Russian: here.

 

FMS counted in Russia almost 4 million illegal migrants

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/05/21/1270885.html.

 

Proposes to clarify the statement in the immigration legislation of the Russian Federation

In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/1807002.html#ixzz330ei3hRy.

 

Russian government supported the bill, which requires migrants to report intention to work

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-262933-ru.html.

 

Migrants still trust money transfer systems

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/economy/10572270.

 

State Duma found a new way of dealing with "rubber flats"

In Russian: http://realty.rbc.ru/articles/22/05/2014/562949991532245.shtml.

 

Foreigners who escaped from the centers for migrants entry into Russia would be closed

In Russian: http://ria.ru/society/20140527/1009540635.html.

 

"Cross-examination" Program. Life myths of migrants in Russia

In Russian: http://ria.ru/radio_programmes/20140527/1009440339.html.

 

"Not entrance" in Russia for 45,000 migrants for 2014

In Russian: http://www.uznews.net/ru/world/26502-za-2014-god-nevezdnymi-v-rf-stali-45-tysach-migrantov.

 

 

Multilateral

 

Kazakh film about migrants received the prize of awards committee

In Russian: http://kginfo.ru/index.php/novosti/item/1745-kazahstanskiy-film-o-migrantah-poluchil-priz-zhyuri.html.

 

Virtual mobile operator for labor migrants from Central Asia set up in Russia

In Russian: http://www.24.kg/cis/179121-v-rossii-sozdayut-virtualnyj-mobilnyj-operator.html.

 

Growth of unemployment in the countries of the former Soviet Union will be 8.3%

In Russian: http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/russian/archives/166601/#.U4d2dHJ_suc.

 

CU countries jointly decide issues of migrant workers

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4626785-strany-ts-reshajut-soobshha-voprosy.html.

 

 

International News

 

More and more people migrate in China - IOM report

In Russian: http://russian.china.org.cn/china/txt/2014-05/20/content_32432088.htm.

  

33.3 million internally displaced persons - in the world

In Russian: http://www.un.org/russian/news/story.asp?NewsID=21649#.U4IoTnJ_sud.

 

ILO: investment in the creation of quality jobs can help to stop the growth of unemployment

In Russian: http://www.un.org/russian/news/story.asp?NewsID=21695#.U4d2bnJ_suc.

 

 

Analytics

 

New requirements put forward for Kazakhs "neoralmans"

In Russian: http://rus.azattyq.org/content/rasselenie-oralmanov-kazakhstan/25327083.html.

 

Researchers about life of migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow

In Russian: here

 

"Manas", selflessly helping migrants

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/article/25395675.html.

 

Moscow May Day and the Kyrgyz

In Russian: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/blog/25384477.html.

 

Migrants’ children

In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/deti-migrantov.

 

Three myths about the benefits of labor migration in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: http://analitika.akipress.org/news:5023.

 

Lessons of Tolerance

In Russian: http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2014/05/19/6039461.shtml.

 

Migration policy in Tajikistan: opportunities and challenges

In Russian: here.  

 

Migration gets labor nature

In Russian: http://news.mail.ru/economics/18269848/.

 

Image of migrant worker!

In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/opinions/citizen/128-imidzh-gastarbajtera.html.

 

Migrants under control

In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/05/21/1271127.html.

 

Migrants catch it coming and going.

In Russian: http://www.ng.ru/politics/2014-05-28/1_migranty.html.

 

To work with a clean conscience. Legalization of labor migrants is only for use in private farms

In Russian: http://www.liter.kz/articles/view/50002.

 

Positive and negative aspects of legalization of labor migrants in RK

In Russian: http://www.zakon.kz/4627313-pljusy-i-minusy-legalizacii-trudovykh.html.

 

On migrants, employers, law enforcements and Media

In Russian: http://oprf.ru/press/news/2014/newsitem/25007.

 

 

Publications

 

News on Labor migration, №3 (61) March- April 2014

In Russian: http://www.profmigr.com/vestnik/04_2014/#1/z.

 

New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 10 May 2014

In Russian: here.

 

 

Announcements

 

Summer School on Migration Studies 2014

In English: http://www.iom.cz/home/summer-school-on-migration-studies-2014.

 

Tender: Service Providers/ Consulting Firms to provide Technical and Financial Proposal

In English: http://iom.kg/?p=1235.

 

 


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