NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 14
Date: May 18-24, 2012
Kazakhstan
| “AreslorMittal Temirtau” workers demand salary raise for not less than 30% 
 Average salary in western Kazakhstan oblast estimated at 93 thousand tenge 
 Vegetable storage owner in Kyzylorda oblast expands his business with the help of the “Employment 2020” Program 
 “Employment 2020” Program: Entrepreneur from Almaty oblast gets 100 smaller stock and 25 black cattle  
 More than 700 violations of migration legislation revealed in SKO this week 
 Criminal case against Kyrgyz citizen initiated in Karaganda | 
Kyrgyzstan
| Kyrgyzstan’s President approves amendments to Labor Code  
 MFA of Kyrgyzstan develops immigration policy strategy 
 
 
 
 Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment to assist Kyrgyzstanis to get legally employed in the UAE 
 Bishkek asks Russia to send language specialists to train local people  
 452 people received immigrant status in Kyrgyzstan in 2011 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs N. Aytmurzaev 
 Fewer Kyrgyz citizens go to work abroad 
 
 Yekaterinburg to host meeting of World Congress of Kyrgyzstanis and Compatriots’ Russian partners 
 More and more Kyrgyzstanis achieve success abroad, informs “Zamandash” Association 
 Kyrgyzstanis take part in Turkic People Parade in New York | 
Tajikistan
| Dushanbe discusses fate of labor migration 
 World Bank to support Tajikistan in terms of pre-migration training of migrants 
 
 Tajik media-organizations wait for new wave of “brain drain”  
 
 Cooperation with heads of foreign language centers 
 Positive decision long awaited: 4-month waiting period 
 12 undocumented migrants from Tajikistan arrested in Yekaterinburg  | 
Uzbekistan
| Jobs for each graduate 
 Uzbekistan as a planter of the XXI century 
 Significant results of consistent work 
 
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Russia
| Russian FMS to be subordinated directly to the government, not to the Home Ministry 
 Illegal migrants to be deported by bailiff officers 
 46% of Russians disapprove of migration amnesty in the country: POF survey 
 Anti-trafficking roundtable held in Moscow 
 Mikhail Kozlov: Banks to reorient their focus on Gastarbeiter 
 St. Petersburg Migration Service receives guests from Moscow 
 
 
 Migrants’ problems and tolerance issues discussed in the lecture “Ideas of Russian Nation” 
 Director of Murmansk Oblast Migration Service to hold video-reception 
 Kupchino residents ask for help “to catch” illegal migrants 
 All Gastarbeiter to be removed from Vladivostok before summit starts | 
Multilateral
| World Bank: Gastarbeiter have to be prepared for employment also by receiving countries 
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 Mass fight between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz takes place in Moscow 
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International News
| Geneva to hold forum on issues of youth employment 
 Minsk hosts a workshop on “Best practices and perspectives in the fight against human trafficking” 
 Switzerland to limit entry for labor migrants from ‘new’ member states of the EU 
 Sudan evicts migrants and international organizations 
 Indonesia bans workers to the Middle East – again | 
Analytics
| Migration Choice of Russia 
 Dear guests come without invitations? 
 Analysis of migration impact on level of criminality in the RF: facts against myths 
 
 
 Unacceptance of Gastarbeiter by Russians – inner world of disgusting attitude  
 Migrants wait for support 
 “Enough Central Asian labor in Russia until 2030” | 
Publications
| International Dialogue on Migration N°18 - Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration 
 Migration and Development Brief, 18, Migration and Remittances Unit 
 “Your right. Migration” | 
Announcements
| Ministry of Labor announces call to become a member of National Council on Gender Development under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic The Department of Gender Policy of the Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment of the Kyrgyz Republic announces a call for interested applicants from civil society for National Council on Gender Development under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic according to the Decree of the Government of the KR dated May 2, 2012, No 268 “On Establishment of National Council on Gender Development under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic”. In Russian: . | 
 
                        