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American University of Central Asia - 69ɫ - News Digest No 34

News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 34

 

Date: January 11-24, 2013

Kazakhstan

 

 

Kazakhstan is among top ten world leaders in volume of recruitment

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Almaty hosts a photo exhibition on migrant workers life in Kazakhstan

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Statistics Agency: 474,000 unemployed in Kazakhstan

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Average wage in Kazakhstan in November makes 100,800 tenge

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Employment via state program

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Disparity in wages under the special control

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Unemployment rate in Kazakhstan counts at 5.2%

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800 jobs may be created in 8 new projects in Astana

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Average monthly wage is 132,972 tenge in Almaty

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400 new jobs provided by enterprises of the Astana Industrial Park in 2012

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Kyrgyzstan

 

Social Fund opens representative office in Russia for portability of migrant workers income

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Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia: Lawyers to help migrants in train

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Migrants from Kyrgyzstan must present medical certificates entering EurAsEC countries

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No jobs for Kyrgyzstanis without medical insurance in Russia

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Parliamentarians disagree transference of migration issues to the Youth Ministry

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External Migration Department works on simplifying procedures for migrants abroad in obtaining permits

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Social Fund sets priorities in dealing with migrant workers

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Working efficiency in Kyrgyzstan linked to the level of wages

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MFA proposes to reduce immigration quota from 1300 to 600 in Kyrgyzstan

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Kyrgyzstan plans to open more than 350,000 jobs in 5 years

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About 600 people get employed through job fair in January

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23,138 new jobs created in Jalal-Abad oblast last year

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"Interbilim" deals with migration issues

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Majority of citizens appeal to MFA on consular and legal, passport and visa, and employment issues

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More than 60 thousand registered unemployed in Kyrgyzstan

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Youth Ministry: 39,500 unemployed find jobs through Employment Service in 2012

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927 unemployed for one vacancy in Batken 

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Compatriots to help revealing illegal migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow

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Prosecutor General's Office asks to check organizations recruiting abroad

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Presentation of book about everyday life of Kyrgyz migrant workers in Moscow

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Tajikistan

 

Remittances from migrant workers may grow in Tajikistan

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Migrants to be taught how to stand for their rights

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Working meeting

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Lavrov and Rahmon to discuss issues on labor migration and supply of petroleum products

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Tajik police "cleans" the capital from illegal immigrants

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Tajik labor migrants leave "children as orphans" behind

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Remittances to Tajikistan made around USD 3.6 billion in 2012

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1,573 Tajiks taken US citizenship over the years of independence

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Tajikistan, Canada discuss labor migration cooperation issues

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"Young migrant" project to be implemented in northern Tajikistan

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Tajikistan publishes brochure for migrant workers in response to Petersburg’s “manual on cleaning tools”

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More than 35,000 people get jobs in Tajikistan last year

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Remittances volume to Isfara remarkably increase

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Around 880,000 people leave Tajikistan in 2012

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International Airport of Dushanbe: More than 1,000 citizens of Tajikistan refused to enter Russia last year

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Statistics on employment data in Kulob diverges with Hall report

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British diplomat meets in Moscow with representatives of Tajik Diasporas in Russia

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Uzbekistan

 

 

Labor migrants from Uzbekistan learn Russian

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IFC and other development organizations declare their willingness to jointly work in order to create jobs

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Interests of entrepreneurs - under the protection of the law

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Uzbekistan recognizes the fact of human trafficking. And what is next?

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More than 970,000 new jobs planned in 2013 in Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan employs more than 450,000 college graduates in 2012

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Russia

 

Russia to register biometric information of migrants in special database

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Federal Migration Service of Russia allows photos of migrant workers in headscarves and hijabs for documents

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Interior Ministry approves new rules of migration policy in Russia

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Moscow. Round table "Simplification of migration legislation in Russia: forecasts, risks and consequences"

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Permission to work in Russia

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Draft law on attracting skilled migrants to work submitted to the State Duma

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Foreigners to be able to work without quotas in Russia on 59 professions

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Official unemployment in Russia increased by 4.1% in December 2012

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State Duma to simplify the process of obtaining Russian citizenship

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Putin orders FMS to conclude agreement on Tajikistanis stay in Russia

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Employers cheating migrants in Russia to be listed in "black list"

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Church wants to help migrants in Russia

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Confirmation requirements of Russian language knowledge for migrant workers

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More "legalized" migrants in St. Petersburg

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Krasnoyarsk reduces number of work quotas for migrant workers

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Multilateral

 

Nearly 20% of working women employed are unpaid in Central Asia

In Russian: or here.

 

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine top the list of countries with high volume of remittances from Russia

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Central Asian laborers vulnerable as global unemployment raises

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Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conducts projects on ensuring access to basic services by migrants’ family members

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International News

 

IFC: There are about 200 million unemployed

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ILO chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle job crisis among youth

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Labor Minister of Germany: German labor market is not ready for a protracted recession

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Ukraine among leading countries on migration flows

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ILO: About 75 million young people are unemployed in the world

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Analytics

 

Who seeks happiness in the West ...

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A.Kamenetsky: Wrecking migration policy. What it is in reality

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China and WTO chase migrant workers to Russia?

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Who will help newcomers?

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Illegal migrant workers to be settled in barracks

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Registration Act: only questions now

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Economy: migrants, registration to remind citizens on fundamental truth

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Moscow needs a museum of migrants

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V.Panfilova: Rahmon hopes for Lavrov’s support. Russia can provide one

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K.Duyshebaeva: Labor quota for Kyrgyz companies. Kazakhstan protects itself from migrant workers

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How to stop flow of illegal migration to Russia?

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On difficulties migrants face in learning Russian language

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On migration in Moscow

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Quite unsafe migration

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Kyrgyzstan: Labor migrants leave behind “social orphans”

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Prime minister to force migrants to receive Russian driver licenses

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Church wants to start Russian language courses for migrants

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Russian law leads migrant workers to underground

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Head of FMS of Russia: Uzbek or Tajik migrant villages in Russia is fiction

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Fights with corruption, not with migrants

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M.Odinaev: Tajik migrants - victims of their government?

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S.Karomatullo: Fewer young Tajiks choose professional jobs

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Tajikistan links the base with migrants. Dushanbe is in no hurry to ratify key agreement with Moscow

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Publications

 

Independent socio-political newspaper "Pluralism", № 24, December 2012

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New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” № 2, January 2013

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Announcements

 

Regional Workshop: Regulation of economic migration in the CIS

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International Conference on Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and Policy Implications

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Meeting of experts on forced labor and trafficking for labor exploitation

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9th European Regional Meeting

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Join our Twitter Q&A session on global unemployment

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