News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 34
Date: January 11-24, 2013
Kazakhstan
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 Kazakhstan is among top ten world leaders in volume of recruitment In Russian: . 
 Almaty hosts a photo exhibition on migrant workers life in Kazakhstan In Russian: . 
 Statistics Agency: 474,000 unemployed in Kazakhstan In Russian: . 
 Average wage in Kazakhstan in November makes 100,800 tenge In Russian: . 
 Employment via state program In Russian: . 
 Disparity in wages under the special control In Russian: . 
 Unemployment rate in Kazakhstan counts at 5.2% In Russian: . 
 800 jobs may be created in 8 new projects in Astana In Russian: . 
 Average monthly wage is 132,972 tenge in Almaty In Russian: . 
 400 new jobs provided by enterprises of the Astana Industrial Park in 2012 In Russian: . 
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Kyrgyzstan
| Social Fund opens representative office in Russia for portability of migrant workers income In Russian: 
 Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia: Lawyers to help migrants in train In Russian: 
 Migrants from Kyrgyzstan must present medical certificates entering EurAsEC countries In Russian: 
 No jobs for Kyrgyzstanis without medical insurance in Russia In Russian: 
 Parliamentarians disagree transference of migration issues to the Youth Ministry In Russian: . 
 External Migration Department works on simplifying procedures for migrants abroad in obtaining permits In Russian: . 
 Social Fund sets priorities in dealing with migrant workers In Russian: 
 Working efficiency in Kyrgyzstan linked to the level of wages In Russian: . 
 MFA proposes to reduce immigration quota from 1300 to 600 in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyzstan plans to open more than 350,000 jobs in 5 years In Russian: 
 About 600 people get employed through job fair in January In Russian: 
 23,138 new jobs created in Jalal-Abad oblast last year In Russian: . 
 "Interbilim" deals with migration issues In Russian: . 
 Majority of citizens appeal to MFA on consular and legal, passport and visa, and employment issues In Russian: . 
 More than 60 thousand registered unemployed in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Youth Ministry: 39,500 unemployed find jobs through Employment Service in 2012 In Russian: . 
 927 unemployed for one vacancy in Batken In Russian: . 
 Compatriots to help revealing illegal migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow In Russian: 
 Prosecutor General's Office asks to check organizations recruiting abroad In Russian: . 
 Presentation of book about everyday life of Kyrgyz migrant workers in Moscow In Russian: . 
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Tajikistan
| Remittances from migrant workers may grow in Tajikistan In Russian: . 
 Migrants to be taught how to stand for their rights In Russian: 
 Working meeting In Russian: . 
 Lavrov and Rahmon to discuss issues on labor migration and supply of petroleum products In Russian: 
 Tajik police "cleans" the capital from illegal immigrants In Russian: 
 Tajik labor migrants leave "children as orphans" behind In English: 
 Remittances to Tajikistan made around USD 3.6 billion in 2012 In Russian: 
 1,573 Tajiks taken US citizenship over the years of independence In Russian: 
 Tajikistan, Canada discuss labor migration cooperation issues In Russian: 
 "Young migrant" project to be implemented in northern Tajikistan In Russian: 
 Tajikistan publishes brochure for migrant workers in response to Petersburg’s “manual on cleaning tools” In Russian: . 
 More than 35,000 people get jobs in Tajikistan last year In Russian: 
 Remittances volume to Isfara remarkably increase In Russian: 
 Around 880,000 people leave Tajikistan in 2012 In Russian: 
 International Airport of Dushanbe: More than 1,000 citizens of Tajikistan refused to enter Russia last year In Russian: 
 Statistics on employment data in Kulob diverges with Hall report In Russian: 
 British diplomat meets in Moscow with representatives of Tajik Diasporas in Russia In Russian: 
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Uzbekistan
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 Labor migrants from Uzbekistan learn Russian In Russian: or here. 
 IFC and other development organizations declare their willingness to jointly work in order to create jobs In Russian: . 
 Interests of entrepreneurs - under the protection of the law In Russian: . 
 Uzbekistan recognizes the fact of human trafficking. And what is next? In Russian: . 
 More than 970,000 new jobs planned in 2013 in Uzbekistan In Russian: . 
 Uzbekistan employs more than 450,000 college graduates in 2012 In Russian: . 
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Russia
| Russia to register biometric information of migrants in special database In Russian: . 
 Federal Migration Service of Russia allows photos of migrant workers in headscarves and hijabs for documents In Russian: . 
 Interior Ministry approves new rules of migration policy in Russia In Russian: . 
 Moscow. Round table "Simplification of migration legislation in Russia: forecasts, risks and consequences" In Russian: . 
 Permission to work in Russia In Russian: . 
 Draft law on attracting skilled migrants to work submitted to the State Duma In Russian: . 
 Foreigners to be able to work without quotas in Russia on 59 professions In Russian: . 
 Official unemployment in Russia increased by 4.1% in December 2012 In Russian: . 
 State Duma to simplify the process of obtaining Russian citizenship In Russian: . 
 Putin orders FMS to conclude agreement on Tajikistanis stay in Russia In Russian: 
 Employers cheating migrants in Russia to be listed in "black list" In Russian: . 
 Church wants to help migrants in Russia In Russian: . 
 Confirmation requirements of Russian language knowledge for migrant workers In Russian: . 
 More "legalized" migrants in St. Petersburg In Russian: . 
 Krasnoyarsk reduces number of work quotas for migrant workers In Russian: . 
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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 In Russian: 
 Central Asian laborers vulnerable as global unemployment raises In English: . 
 Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conducts projects on ensuring access to basic services by migrants’ family members In Russian: . 
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International News
| IFC: There are about 200 million unemployed In Russian: . 
 ILO chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle job crisis among youth In Russian: . 
 Labor Minister of Germany: German labor market is not ready for a protracted recession In Russian: . 
 Ukraine among leading countries on migration flows In Russian: . 
 ILO: About 75 million young people are unemployed in the world In Russian: . 
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Analytics
| Who seeks happiness in the West ... In Russian: . 
 A.Kamenetsky: Wrecking migration policy. What it is in reality In Russian: . 
 China and WTO chase migrant workers to Russia? In Russian: . 
 Who will help newcomers? In Russian: 
 Illegal migrant workers to be settled in barracks In Russian: . 
 Registration Act: only questions now In Russian: . 
 Economy: migrants, registration to remind citizens on fundamental truth In Russian: . 
 Moscow needs a museum of migrants In Russian: . 
 V.Panfilova: Rahmon hopes for Lavrov’s support. Russia can provide one In Russian: . 
 K.Duyshebaeva: Labor quota for Kyrgyz companies. Kazakhstan protects itself from migrant workers In Russian: . 
 How to stop flow of illegal migration to Russia? In Russian: . 
 On difficulties migrants face in learning Russian language In Russian: . 
 On migration in Moscow In Russian: . 
 Quite unsafe migration In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyzstan: Labor migrants leave behind “social orphans” In English: . 
 Prime minister to force migrants to receive Russian driver licenses In Russian: . 
 Church wants to start Russian language courses for migrants In Russian: . 
 Russian law leads migrant workers to underground In Russian: . 
 Head of FMS of Russia: Uzbek or Tajik migrant villages in Russia is fiction In Russian: . 
 Fights with corruption, not with migrants In Russian: 
 M.Odinaev: Tajik migrants - victims of their government? In Russian: . 
 S.Karomatullo: Fewer young Tajiks choose professional jobs In Russian: . 
 Tajikistan links the base with migrants. Dushanbe is in no hurry to ratify key agreement with Moscow In Russian: . 
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Publications
| Independent socio-political newspaper "Pluralism", â„– 24, December 2012 In Russian: . 
 New Issue of “Your Right. Migration” â„– 2, January 2013 In Russian: 
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Announcements
| Regional Workshop: Regulation of economic migration in the CIS In Russian: . 
 International Conference on Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and Policy Implications In Russian: . 
 Meeting of experts on forced labor and trafficking for labor exploitation In English: . 
 9th European Regional Meeting In English: . 
 Join our Twitter Q&A session on global unemployment In English: . 
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