News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 6
Date: March 10-16, 2012
Kazakhstan
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 Employment Program – 2020 to be improved 
 Seven thousand participants of Employment Program – to receive 2020 microcredits in 2012 
 Labor mobility measures to be enhanced within Employment Program – 2020 
 Freed Kazakh labor lawyer prohibited from activism  | 
Kyrgyzstan
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 Bishkek holds negotiations with Russia’s MFA on denouncing agreement on simplified procedure of citizenship acquisition  
 Message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the KR 
 New deputies of Minister of Youth, Labor and Employment appointed 
 Decree No 122, dated February 20, 2012: On issues of Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment of the KR 
 IMF: Second wave of world financial crisis may affect Kyrgyzstan 
 Labor Ministry develops Youth Policy 2012-2015  
 Ombudsman of KR to monitor Kyrgyz labor migrants’ human rights realization 
 Bishkek Mayor’s Office intends to ‘erase division’ between Bishkek and settlements according to Program 2012-2014 In Russian: or here. 
 NGO blames parties in using unemployed youth and women 
 Bishkek to hold series of documentaries on development of poor and vulnerable groups in the world 
 90 thousand illegal Chinese stay in Kyrgyzstan 
 MSLU holds open class on Manas epic for students learning Kyrgyz language 
 Kyrgyz migrant workers abroad need help 
 Dinara Asanalieva: Main reasons for growing number of homeless people are unemployment, internal migration, divorces 
 Celebration of Noruz in Bremen  | 
Tajikistan
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 Tajikistan migration service agency to open its office in Kazakhstan 
 Devonaev: There is a necessity of preparing human resources to serve demands of employer-states 
 Climate Migration Poses Growing Threat – ADB  
 Tajik envoy, Qatari minister discuss labor migration cooperation issues 
 Status of Chinese labor migrants in Tajikistan discussed in Dushanbe 
 Expert: Only a quarter of salary is sent home by Tajik migrants 
 Tajikistan may face instability in 2012/13 
 Training IT-specialists among potential migrants discussed in Tajikistan 
 Tajik MS Representative Office in RF helps labor migrants receive due salary 
 Altai delegation visits North of Tajikistan 
 Roundtable “Tajik diaspora: economic and cultural potential of Russia” held in Moscow 
 Tajik students to create information resource in St. Petersburg 
 Tajik Diaspora in France to celebrate Navruz under Eifel Tower 
 Potential of Tajik Diaspora  | 
Russia
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 RF drug control service head proposes four measures to regulate labor migration 
 RF expands power of constituents 
 Drug control service: We should ban entry into RF on internal passports 
 Individuals violated migration registration rules may be deported out of Russia 
 “Strategy 2020”: Migration quota system does not reflect employers demands 
 Moscow makes up a Black List of companies for migrants 
 Petersburg’s system of adaptation of migrants does not work 
 Best Tolerance Symbol winners to be awarded in Petersburg 
 Migration growth in Russia makes 320 thousand people in 2011 according to new registration rules, old rules only count 107  
 Number of migrants moved within Russian Federation in 2011 exceeds 3 million according to new rules of registration, old rules count a million less 
 In the end of third quarter of 2011 1032 thousand foreigners obtained work permit in Russia  
 Population of all constituents of Federation continued to grow due to migration exchange with CIS countries, but population of majority of constituents decreased due to migration exchange within regions of Russia 
 Onishenko defines capital as ‘foul’ 
 Future Russians 
 Number of labor patents grows five times in one year 
 Transit is closed: Number of illegal migrants decreases 
 Specialists develop applications “Illegal migrant” for mobile phones 
 Krasnoyarsk witnesses growing inflow of migrants 
 Vacated but not deserted: what houses are occupied by Moscow illegal workers 
 Illegal Gastarbeiter detained in sewage treatment construction works in Motornyi 
 ‘Korean cabbage’ was made by Gastarbeiter in insanitary conditions 
 Prosecutor’s Office checks migrants at construction sites of Central region 
 Petersburg café closed for 10 days for one illegal worker 
 Court decides to deport Gastarbeiter 
 Organizer of illegal migration fined for 50 thousand rubles  | 
Multilateral
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 Moscow creates expert group to work with ethnic diasporas in Russia 
 Due to visa-free regime in post-Soviet space all labor migrants came to Russia legally 
 Russia records highest migration exchange with Uzbekistan in 2003-2011 – 274 thousand 
 Kurgan researchers investigate if there are migrants who wish to learn Russian language 
 Research: number of Christian migrants higher than Muslim migrants  | 
Analytics
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 Omsk FMS meets employers and national diaspora representatives 
 Moscow: decent salary for migrants? 
 Nigora Bukhari-zade: More women among migrants 
 Tajikistan: poverty encourages early marriages 
 ‘Great Migration Power’ through the eyes of an expert 
 Shock workers of our construction sites  |