News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 9 (2017)

Head of IOM / United Nations Migration Agency and the Deputy Coordinator for Central Asia held an open lecture at the KIMEP University on "Trends in migration"

In Russian: http://iom.kz/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/261-lecturekimepru.

More than 100 thousand people live in Astana without registration - Migration Police

In Russian: https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/100-tyisyach-projivali-astane-registratsii-migratsionnaya-317982/.

Kyrgyzstan and Dubai to exchange experience in combating illegal migration and human trafficking

In Russian: http://www.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-i-dubai-obmeniaiutsia-opytom-v-bor-be-s-nelegal-noi-migratciei-i-torgovlei-liud-mi/.

The main reasons of internal migration in Kyrgyzstan are family circumstances, - National Statistics Committee

In Russian: http://www.for.kg/news-423499-en.html.

Almazbek Atambayev on excitement against migrants from Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: https://rus.azattyk.org/a/28476148.html.

Exhibition of drawings and photographs devoted to migration and slave trade will be held in Osh

In Russian: http://advocacy.kg/index.php/4401-11-maya-v-oshe-projdet-vystavka-risunkov-i-fotografij-posvyashchennaya-voprosam-migratsii-i-rabotorgovli.

240 vacant jobs offered to the unemployed in the city Guliston

In Russian: http://avesta.tj/2017/05/10/240-svobodnyh-rabochih-mest-predlozhili-bezrabotnym-v-gorode-gulistone/.

Ministry of Labor of Uzbekistan held a meeting with the representative of the Russian Association for Legal Assistance to Labor Migrants

In Russian: http://www.uzdaily.uz/articles-id-32500.htm.

In Russia, the number of "rubber apartments" has decreased 200 times.

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/society/16061770.

In Russia, аmnesty for labor migrants from Moldova have been  extended

In Russian: http://mir24.tv/news/society/16044725. 

Remittances from Russia grow only in the countries of the EEU

In Russian: http://www.ritmeurasia.org/news--2017-05-11--denezhnye-perevody-iz-rossii-rastut-tolko-v-stranah-eaes-30066. 

Worsening food insecurity forcing more people to migrate, finds new UN report

In English: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56689#.WR4GJpLyjIU.

Why would the United States save refugees and migrants from Central Asia in Moscow?

In Russian: http://www.stanradar.com/news/full/24900-zachem-ssha-budut-sobirat-bezhentsev-i-migrantov-iz-tsentralnoj-azii-v-moskve.html.

Uzbekistan turns to its labor migrants

In Russian: http://kabar.kg/news/dw-uzbekistan-povorachivaetsia-litcom-k-svoim-trudovym-migrantam/.

Migrants transferred to Kyrgyzstan half of GDP for 5 years

In Russian: http://eurasia.expert/migranty-pereveli-v-kyrgyzstan-poltora-vvp/.

Newsletter #1 - March 2017

In English: http://www.ilo.org/moscow/information-resources/newsletters/WCMS_552868/lang--en/index.htm.