News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 4
Date: 25 February – 2 March, 2012
Kazakhstan
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 Human Rights Commission suggests review of migration policy 
 Augmenting cadre’s potential. “Employment – 2020” program gets additional opportunities 
 ILO experts reveal banned child labor in Kazakhstan 
 Child trafficking thrives in Kazakhstan  | 
Kyrgyzstan
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 Vice Prime Minister of KR G.Asymbekova meets IOM delegation 
 Head of MFA suggests IOM develop road map of cooperation 
 Social Fund: Kyrgyzstan and Russia discuss pension accumulation for migrants 
 IOM plans to open Center of Employment Abroad for labor migrants by the end of March 
 IOM to improve professional training in KR 
 Zlatko Zigic: There are four labor migrants' rights protection centers in the territory of the Russian Federation 
 Decree of KR “On defining labor migration quota for foreign citizens 2012” 
 Arsen Imankulov: Every third employable citizen of Kyrgyzstan is employed in economies of other countries 
 Kyrgyz citizens still leaving 
 106700 Kyrgyz citizens officially worked in Russia in 2011 
 Major problem of migrants in Russia – getting work permit, Ambassador of KR in RF 
 But there is no money for children… 
 Migrating for good: Kyrgyzstan is a champion  | 
Tajikistan
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 Tajik journalist wins international contest on best migration policy 
 UN Women lays foundation for engendering HIV programming in Tajikistan 
 Hundred labor migrants study various professions and Russian language in Dushanbe  
 Dushanbe discusses human trafficking  
 Will Tajik migrants be protected by Tajik lawyers? 
 Group of educated Gastarbeiter in Dushanbe ready to leave for Russia 
 “Rohi safed” for labor migrants 
 2.5% officially registered unemployed in Tajikistan 
 Number of employable population in Tajikistan at present is 60% of total population of the country (in 1991 – 47%) 
 Migration Service of RT: Meeting with colleagues in Sverdlov oblast of RF 
 Tajik citizen, poet Khasan Kholov, who works at construction site in St. Petersburg and who got employed in Academy of Russian Philology, gives advise to future president on how to help develop culture. Video 
 Putin's Unlikeliest Supporters: Tajik Migrant Workers 
 Representation of MS of RT in Russia informs of death of three citizens of Tajikistan 
 Two citizens of Tajikistan - victims of blust in Gorki-25 town - die   | 
Russia
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 Moscow intends to create single labor market for CIS countries 
 Electronic card for migrants to be issued to expatriates first 
 Head of FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky: quarter of migrants from CIS cannot speak Russian 
 Moscow authorities plan to disintegrate ‘ethnic enclaves’ in schools 
 Omsk Oblast FMS Department meets employers and representatives of national diasporas 
 Capital to host vacancy fair for foreigners 
 Moscow authorities deported 151 illegal migrants from beginning of the year In Russian: . 
 Migrants commit more often crimes in metropolitan areas In Russian: . 
 Voronezh alarmingly lacks country doctors  | 
Multilateral
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 Experts of CSTO countries hold consultation meetings on labor migration issues in Moscow  | 
Analytics
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 Fedor Karpovec: Mechanism of migration quoting should be more flexible 
 According to UNICEF more than 200 thousand children annually employed in hard labor. Around 10 thousand children join parents who are in labor migration 
 “We define ourselves as illegals” 
 Jirinovsky: If CIS countries become part of Russia, issue of migration will disappear (video) 
 Russian passport for expatriate upon first request  | 
Publications
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 “World labor market and international migration”, by S.V.Ryazancev and M.F.Tkachenko, 2010 
 News of Labor Migration from Tajikistan. Review of media on CA and RF No 35  | 
Announcements
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 Public association “Dostoyanie Respubliki” announces call for best scenario for runner on challenging issues among creative youth of Kyrgyzstan 
 Training course “Identifying and investigating cases of forced labor and trafficking”, 16 – 20 April 2012, ITC-ILO, Turin, Italy 
 Internship vacancy at ITC-ILO, Turin, Italy  |