News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 5
Date: March 2-9, 2012
Kazakhstan
| Vice Prime Minister is introduced to implementation of “Employment 2020” Program in Kyzylorda oblast 
 Labor Minister visits Akmola oblast 
 Participants of “Employment 2020” Program stopping education do not have to reimburse expenses in some cases | 
Kyrgyzstan
| Kyrgyz migrants have a chance to accumulate pension in Pension Fund of Russia 
 Almazbek Atambayev: Half of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan are women 
 Draft of Strategy of Social Integration of Migrants discussed in Bishkek 
 Qataris to teach Kyrgyz citizens for further employment 
 Department of Consular Service at MFA KR opens “hot lines” 
 As of March 1 nearly 4 thousand jobs available in Bishkek 
 Youth, Labor and Employment Ministry ready to provide vacancies or educate former casino staff at professional colleges 
 According unofficial data 100K foreign citizens work in Kyrgyzstan illegally – Almambet Shykmamatov 
 NGO: Many voters did not know that they can vote only on the base of residence registration 
 58 children live and work in streets in the south of KR 
 Nearly 2.4 thousand people attended job fair in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan | 
Tajikistan
| Tajik MPs ratify Agreement on Fight against human trafficking 
 Status of Chinese labor migrants in Tajikistan discussed in Dushanbe 
 Tajik poet awarded Golden medal of Esenin in Russia 
 Assistance Fund for labor migrants to be established in Tajikistan on their own account? 
 Tajik lawyer offers to postpone establishment of Migrant Workers Support Fund 
 Assistance to victims of human trafficking 
 Two resource centers on HIV/AIDS open in Dushanbe 
 Chinese language course at Migration Service of RT 
 Will staff of the Migration Service of RT start talking Chinese? 
 Tajik migrants employed in Tomsk oblast 
 Migrants get cheated starting in Tajikistan? | 
Russia
| Officials of the capital plan to ease fate of labor migrants 
 FMS intend to establish schools for migrants in Moscow 
 Migration positively affects demographic situation in Lenin oblast  
 Heads of utilities companies in Moscow to be fined for keeping migrants in basements and attics of houses 
 Schools at Orthodox church to teach Gastarbeiter Russian In Russian: . 
 Moscow. Round table “basement registration or where did Moscow Gastarbeiter got deported?” 
 Migrants’ children at Kupchino learn Russian in additional classes 
 Situation with illegal migrants in Moscow stabilized 
 Boss, hello! 
 Owners of “rubber houses” to be charged in Vladivostok 
 Construction company pays fine of 200 thousand rubles for one illegal Gastarbeiter 
 Tajik migrant could not bribe FMS staff 
 Tver court bailiffs deport 29 illegal migrants  
 Russia has more than 600 thousand slaves | 
Multilateral
| Experts of EDB estimate impact of ratification of CES agreements on labor migration  
 All-Russia research project on “Migration flows in Eurasian region” to be implemented on March 7-19, 2012 
 IOM: There is no ‘illegal migration’ as such, there is illegal employment of migrants 
 40 migrants selling fake documents detained in Moscow metro station | 
Analytics
| Tajiks in Moscow – Gastarbeiter, drug lords and …, - ‘Sobesednik No 9’ 
 Migration card becomes trump 
 Central Asian women's shattered 'Russian dreams'  
 R.Ustrahanov: Torture in Immigration Service of Norwegian police 
 T.Rakhmatullaev: Migrants need Russia as much as it needs them 
 Rimma Kisileva: Kyrgyzstan to have many positive points in Customs Union 
 Remembering Fatherland | 
Publications
| News of Labor Migration from Tajikistan. Review of media on CA and RF No 36 In Russian: here. | 
 
                        