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American University of Central Asia - 69ɫ - News Digest No 32

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 32

 

Date: December, 2012

Kazakhstan

 

 

President instructs Ministry of Education and Science with Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Kazakhstan to analyze the prospects of domestic labor market

In Russian: .

 

Unemployment benefits to pay to those who seek to improve his skills - President

In Russian: .

 

Unemployment rate decreases in Astana

In Russian: .

 

Employment map is drawn in Atyrau, where 11,647 unemployed people to be  in 2013

In Russian: .

 

About 7000 jobs in rural areas in the framework of Employment Program

In Russian: .

 

Russian government approves an agreement with Kazakhstan on the presence of people in each other territory without registration

In Russian: .

 

On a blue eye: According to akimat, the average salary in South Kazakhstan is 2000$

In Russian: .

 

Unemployment rate in Kazakhstan - 5.3%

In Russian: .

 

General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan and IOM coordinator for Central Asia to sign a memorandum on combating human trafficking

In Russian: .

 

People of Kazakhstan to take part in the World Radiomarathone dedicated to the International Day of Migrants

In Russian: .

 

Kazakhstan wants to restrict residence in Astana and Almaty

In Russian:

 

Around 5,500 work permits were issued in Astana to foreign workers since the beginning of the year

In Russian: .

 

Unemployment rate in Kazakhstan decreases to 5.2% in the third quarter

In Russian: .

 

Awareness campaign on HIV prevention in Almaty among migrant workers - USAID project

In Russian: .

 

72, 4 thousand people came to Almaty in 2011, mostly migrants from other regions of Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

 

Kyrgyzstan

 

 

National Public Migration Board to open in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment and Ministry of Employment and Labor of Korea sign a Memorandum of Mutual Understanding on sending workers to Korea

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Embassy helps to solve migration problems of compatriots in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

In Russian: .

 

Migration service agency makes Kyrgyz labor migrants aware of migration laws in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Social Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic to work on transferring migrants funds from the pension fund of the Russian Federation

In Russian: . 

 

Kyrgyz migrants in Moscow to be prepared for a language test

In Russian: . 

 

Center for Children works with children of internal migrants

In Russian: .

 

"Family for every child" mitigates migration

In Russian: .

 

Six departments work on migration policy with zero result - Otorbaev

In Russian: .

 

Kirill Ismailov: We are going to simplify the procedure of obtaining visas for foreigners

In Russian: .   

  

About 11 thousand people left Kyrgyzstan for 10 months

In Russian: .

 

20 688 thousand Kyrgyz citizens get registered at Migration Service of  Krasnoyarsk region in 11 months

In Russian: .

 

Average income of migrant workers abroad - $ 400 a month

In Russian: .

 

40% of earnings Kyrgyz labor migrants send home - research

In Russian: .

 

Center for Migrants operates in village Bokonbaevo

In Russian: .

 

General Consulate of the Kyrgyz Republic in Almaty organizes New Year’s party for the children of Kyrgyz migrants

In Russian: .

 

New Year’s party for the children of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

A group of citizens from Kyrgyzstan evacuated from the Kuril Islands Shikotan

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz  people in Moscow make fake documents for migrants from Central Asia

In Russian: .

 

Bishkek hosts a conference on protecting the rights of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Social Fund Representatives meet with labor migrants in Kazakhstan

In Russian: . 

 

MIA urged to protect migrant workers from criminal

In Russian: .

 

Offer to return migration issues to Office for Labor and Employment

In Russian: .

 

Migrant workers are the main investors in Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyz MFA

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Embassy recommends migrants comply with the legislation of Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

No single migration strategy in Kyrgyzstan - Job Center for citizens

In Russian: .

 

Ministry of Youth proposes to allow domestic workers to get a job in any region without registration

In Russian: .

 

Migration and unemployment lead to the destruction of the family - data research

In Russian: .

 

Event on migration and vocational education in December 18

In Russian: .

 

Expert describes three approaches to the problem of labor migration

In Russian: .

 

MP tells about tightening of migration controls in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .  

 

Exams on Russian language for migrants be held in four phases

In Russian: .

 

Information on a language test for traveling migrants can be found at the Institute of Russian Language after Pushkin

In Russian: .

 

Marina Manke: Citizens of Kyrgyzstan to continue to search for other labor markets

In Russian: .

 

Damira Niyazalieva: Only a third of Kyrgyz citizens who go to work in Russia, get registered

In Russian: .

 

Nurbek Omurov: Legal channels do not cover employment even of 70% of migrants

In Russian: .  

 

Aigul Ryskulova: School graduates practically are blind in choosing a future profession

In Russian: . 

 

Samat Toktobolotov: The purpose of the state - labor mobility

In Russian: .  

 

Aigul Ryskulova: Protection of migrant workers to be solved in the Customs Union

In Russian: . 

 

Nurdin Tynaev: Number of deaths among migrant women abroad is increasing

In Russian: .

 

Aliyasbek Alymkulov: "Single database of employers and job seekers is working in Kyrgyzstan"

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz Diasporas and organizations in Moscow and regions of Russia to hold a congress in March 2013

In Russian: .

 

450 thousand migrants from Kyrgyzstan get Russian citizenship from 1991 to 2011

In Russian: .

 

About 5 thousand citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic in Kazakhstan get registered permanently and about 25 thousand people temporarily, according to the MIA KR

In Russian: .

 

In the first half of 2012, number of work permits issued to citizens of Kyrgyzstan in Russia decreases by 12%

In Russian:  or here.

 

Since 1991, more than 900 thousand people left Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Otunbayeva and UNDP Administrator H.Klark discuss issues of Kyrgyz migrants

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz and Kazakh MFA to develop memo for migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Dzholdoshova proposes to ban exit of Kyrgyz women under 23 years abroad

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz-Russian Congress elected Kubanychbek Kozhoev as a Head

In Russian: .

 

Kyrgyz journalist about Putin's message: Migration has long been a tool of political declarations

In Russian: .

 

Expert: International passports contradict the idea of a Eurasian Union when entering Russia

In Russian: .

 

Remittances in Kyrgyzstan is 30% of GDP

In Russian: .

 

President of the Kyrgyz Republic says to create 350,000 jobs in Kyrgyzstan in five years

In Russian: .

 

400 million som to spend on creating jobs in 2013

In Russian: .

  

World Day for HIV prevention among migrants in Kyrgzystan

In Russian: .

 

Kazakhstan delays ratification of the agreement with Kyrgyzstan on labor and business

In Russian: .

 

Group of MPs help to solve the social problems of migrants in Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

Theater project to help young people find work in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Ernest Karybekov speaks in St. Petersburg with a report on the integration between Kyrgyzstan and Russia

In Russian: .

 

Alexander Shustov: The outflow of labor migrants to Russia leads to a shortage of qualified personnel in Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Official explanation of Organizing Committee on the All-Russian Congress of the Kyrgyz

In Russian:

 

Center of the Kyrgyz-Russian friendship with the elements of culture, tourism, life to be open in the Yaroslavl region of Russia

In Russian: .

 

80% of Kyrgyz migrants in Kazakhstan are engaged in business activities - deputy

In Russian: .

 

More than 300,000 people in Kyrgyzstan receive Russian citizenship in the past 15 years

In Russian: . 

 

 

Tajikistan

 

 

Migration service agency makes potential labor migrants aware of migration realities abroad

In Russian: .

 

Agreement on voluntary medical insurance for Tajik migrants singed in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

It is hard to find a job with major in Tajikistan - the results of research

In Russian: .

 

160,000 Tajiks in Russia according to the Federal Migration Service

In Russian:

 

Nearly 33,000 people get a job in Tajikistan this year

In Russian: .

 

Remittances to Tajikistan reach nearly $ 3.3 billion

In Russian: .

 

More than two thousand new jobs to create in Khujand in 2013

In Russian: .

 

Average monthly wage in Kulob increases by 109 somoni for the year

In Russian: .

 

Offer of 231 free workplace at a job fair in Spitamen

In Russian: .

 

Tajikistan's migration service helps to change the decision of the court to expel migrants

In Russian: .

 

IOM Tajikistan Recognizes International Migrants Day

In English: .

 

Discussion on the problems of labor migration holds in Khujand

In Russian: 

 

Discussion on the voluntary medical insurance of Tajik migrants holds in Moscow

In Russian: .  

 

Since the beginning of the year number of unemployed in Tajikistan get twice lower

In Russian: .

 

More than 800,000 people left Tajikistan since the beginning of the year

In Russian: .

 

66 people from Sughd deported from Russia since the beginning of the year

In Russian: .

 

Remittances to Tajikistan increases to almost $ 3.3 billion

In Russian: .

 

More than 200 thousand citizens of Sughd leave the country since the beginning of the year

In Russian: .

 

111 citizens of Tajikistan in Moscow waiting to return to their homeland

In Russian: .

 

Tajikistan, Russia to sign new agreement on organized labor migration

In Russian: .

 

Dushanbe mayor's office intends to attract potential migrants to the development of city

In Russian: .

 

ILO calls to set a decent minimum wage

In Russian: .

 

Round table on "The challenges of globalization and migration" in RTSU

In Russian: .

 

Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service in Tajikistan to present his photographs in Dushanbe

In Russian: .

 

Meeting with the management of the FMS of Russia

In Russian: .

 

Issues of migrants integration should be solved jointly

In Russian: .

 

Over a hundred citizens of Tajikistan are in a detention center for foreigners in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Increased HIV risk for wives of Tajik migrants

In English: .

 

Delegation of Tajik Migration Service visits Kyrgyzstan

In Russian: .

 

Russian collaboration organizes in Dushanbe testing on Russian language

In Russian:

 

Daily average of 82 residents leave Tajikistan

In Russian: .

 

Over 30,000 people get jobs in Tajikistan this year

In Russian: .

 

Migrants from Tajikistan get warned purchase tickets from reliable dealers in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Janitors from Tajikistan go on strike in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

 

 Uzbekistan

 

 

Employment – guarantee of good life

In Russian: .

 

Uzbeks are asked to learn the Russian and find an employer before emigration

In Russian: .

 

Employment - guarantee of good life

In Russian: .

 

Presentation of Uzbek culture in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Uzbekistan extends period of work permits to 3 years for citizens of Korea

In Russian: .

 

Employment - urgent question

In Russian: .

 

Expansion of abilities

In Russian: .

 

"One stop shop" for entrepreneurs

In Russian: .

 

 

Russia

 

 

FMS promises to prepare the concept of labor migration for the year

In Russian: .

 

Cabinet of Ministries to consider involvement of highly skilled migrants to the Russian Federation

In Russian:

 

FMS publishes data on the number of migrant workers in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Russian government to consider amending the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens

In Russian: .

 

Migrant workers en masse leave Russia

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service is looking for online communication

In Russian: .

 

80% of young migrant workers coming to Russia, do not speak Russian - FMS

In Russian: .

 

Game for adaptation is invented in Peter for migrant workers

In Russian: .

 

Department of Federal Migration Service in Moscow proposes to create migration patrols

In Russian: .

 

Migrant workers in Krasnoyarsk successfully pass tests on the Russian language

In Russian: .

 

Samara opens hotel for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Saratov welcomes migrants  with good "lift"

In Russian: .

 

Migrants decorate Christmas trees in Tverskaya

In Russian: .

 

Migration Service for Nationalities

In Russian: .

 

Guest workers in Moscow to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the USSR

In Russian: .

 

Criminal penalties for entry to Russia previously deported migrants

In Russian: .

 

Public Council of Russian FMS in Moscow to consider the initial results of testing of foreign nationals in the Russian language

In Russian: .

 

Poltavchenko wants to limit the number of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Kudrin calls to increase the flow of migrants to Russia

In Russian: .

 

Migration is a development, considers head of the Federal Migration Service

In Russian: .

 

Member of the Public Chamber of the Leningrad region: It is not a sign of crime among migrants the presence of "ethnocriminality"

In Russian: .

 

Kaliningrad Governor asks to restrict migration from Central Asia

In Russian: .

 

Migrant workers from Tajikistan has two years to get an international passport

In Russian:

 

Petersburg theaters to take part in the education of migrant children

In Russian: .

 

Population growth rate in Russia is possible only due to migration

In Russian: .

 

Three-quarters of foreign migrants are in five Russian regions

In Russian: .

 

Test of Russian language pass five thousand migrants

In Russian: .

 

Putin to allow entry to Russia only by foreign passports

In Russian: .

 

Ministry of Labor to provide migrants with voluntary insurance policies

In Russian: .

 

Migrants in Russia ignore the mandatory test for Russian language

In Russian: .

 

Twenty-one laws for one migrant

In Russian:

 

Sobyanin denies increasing of quotas for migrant workers for the coming year

In Russian: .

 

Roundtable: "What kind of migration museum needs Moscow?"

In Russian: .

 

Putin instructs to expedite procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to former USSR citizens

In Russian: .

 

360 words enough for migrants to work in Russia

In Russian: .

 

Russia to consider on agreement for cancellations of staying up to 30 days for citizens of Kazakhstan

In Russian: .

 

Petersburg ombudsman believes that the growing number of migrants either economically or socially justified

In Russian: .

 

World Bank: "triple benefit" of migration

In Russian:

 

From December 1entering into force a new law on migration

In Russian: .

 

MPs ask to check migrants on the knowledge of Russian already working in the Russian Federation

In Russian: .

 

Duma deputies intend to prohibit issuing work permits to migrants under the age of 18 years

In Russian: .

 

Socio-economic growth in Russia result in the need for migrant workers specialties

In Russian:

 

Database of all the foreigners who come to the capital to create in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Simonov: migration problem cannot be solved by repressive measures

In Russian: . 

 

Quotas for issuing work permits to foreigners divided by region

In Russian: .

 

Center for illegal migrants in Udmurtia

In Russian: .

 

"Anti-conflict" informational meetings for migrants in Krasnodar

In Russian: . 

 

 

Multilateral

 

 

Central Asian migrants benefit most from working abroad

In English: .

 

Gallup: Labor migrants from Central Asia most can improve their financial situation

In Russian: .

 

9000 migrants from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in one of the cities of Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Only every fifth labor migrant to work legally in the CIS

In Russian: .

 

 

International News

 

 

Labourists force migrants to learn English

In Russian:

 

France withdraw from his neck migrants

In Russian: .

 

UN Secretary-General calls on States to protect migrants’ rights

In Russian: .

 

Azerbaijan: Migration Rules Mess with Azeri Georgians

In English: .

 

On International Migrants Day, human rights experts call for end to criminalization of irregular migration

In English: .

 

Rights of Migrants Highlighted on Human Rights Day

In English: .

 

Obama to introduce to Congress bills on immigration reform

In Russian: .

 

 

Analytics

 

 

What we do not know about migrants in Russia are not left out, as it seems

In Russian: .

 

From "migrant worker" to the person with the "immigration past»

In Russian: .

 

Lonely children of Tajik migrants

In Russian: .

 

Guest workers to be offered to come out of the shadows

In Russian: .

 

Fate of migrants

In Russian: .

 

Illegal migration: Russian laws have become stricter U.S. and EU

In Russian: .

 

A.Shustov: Migration as a major challenge to Russia

In Russian: .

 

N.Turdyev: 50,000 young Tajiks are involved in labor migration

In Russian: .

 

K.Elkeeva: Criminal migrants of Kyrgyzstan - the pursuit of long-term

In Russian: .

 

Uzbek expert: Among those who want to leave for permanent residence in Russia, more and more non-Russians

In Russian: .

 

On the last Kyrgyz-Russian Congress

In Russian: .

 

Why they threaten migrants with broom?

In Russian: .

 

Russian regions need of skilled migrants increases

In Russian: .

 

President of Women Congress of Kyrgyz Republic Z.Akbagysheva: Kyrgyzstan needs forecasting and planning center to address migration needs

In Russian: .

 

Cause of rural migration - the lack of jobs

In Russian: .

 

Migrants in Russia: Towards Integration

In Russian: .

 

Who are the migrants and how many of them are?

In Russian: .

 

Migration as a demographic resource

In Russian: .

 

Migration as an economic resource

In Russian: .

 

Constant migration between Russia and the CIS and Baltic countries

In Russian: .

 

Foreign workers in the labor market of Russia

In Russian: .

 

Officials can not share migrants

In Russian: .

 

Letters and newspapers to deliver migrants

In Russian: .

 

Legal migrants to be twice more

In Russian: .

 

G.Faskhutdinov: Tajik children want to become guest workers

In Russian: .

 

Y. Levykin: migrants, losers and lazy people to demolish Russian economy

In Russian: .

 

Only two of Kyrgyz migrants pass test for knowledge of the Russian language in Moscow

In Russian: .

 

Diasporas of migrants want to talk with the authorities on an equal

In Russian: .

 

Moscow to double the number of legal migrants

In Russian: .

 

Migration service – with no questions

In Russian: .

 

Superjob.ru - against workers from Central Asia

In Russian: .

 

Do we need individual schools for migrants?

In Russian: .

 

Socio-psychological portrait of Moscow Kyrgyz

In Russian: .

 

For illegal immigrants want to put employers

In Russian: .

 

Who is responsible for migrants?

In Russian: .

 

Opposite effect for law exam for migrants

In Russian: .

 

Migrants to be snapped up

In Russian: .

 

No more foreign traders in our markets?

In Russian: .

 

Law on compulsory language proficiency may result outbursts of indiscriminate return migrants

In Russian: .

 

Who will help someone else in the other land? Letter of the Chairman of the Fund assistance to migrant workers from Central Asia in St. Petersburg under I.Belousova

In Russian: .

 

"MK": How dangerous pilot guest worker

In Russian: .

 

 

Publications

 

 

New Year's issue of newspaper “Voice of Tajiks”, “Ovozi Tochikistoniho”, № 65

In Russian:

 

News on labor migration, December 2012

In Russian: .

 

"Migration XXI Century" Independent News and Analysis Journal, № 6 (15), November-December 2012

In Russian: .

 

Migrant Workers Hit By Crises Need Comprehensive, Long Term Help, Says IOM on International Migrants Day 2012

In English:

 

New issue of “Your right. Migration”, № 24, December 2012

In Russian: .

 

The State of Environmental Migration 2011

In English:

 

Ratification of the UN Migrant Workers Convention in Europe

In English: .

 

News on labor migration, November 2012

In Russian: .

 

Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and beyond

In English:

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New issue of “Your right. Migration”, № 23, December 2012

In Russian: .

  

 

Announcements

 

 

International Migrants Day

In Russian: .

 

Media campaign of International Migrants Day

In Russian: .

 

Contest: on International Migrants Day IOM Kyrgyzstan announces photo contest

In Russian: .

 

MSc in Migration Studies

In English: .

 

Global Day of Action: We Migrate to Live, no more deaths, no more missing people! 

In English: .

 

Celebration of International Migrants’ Day and 10th Anniversary of IOM Oslo with Migrant Communities

In English: .

 

 


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