NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 12
Date: May 5-10, 2012
Kazakhstan
| Migration and Registration 
 Simplifying registration procedure and termination of individual entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan 
 Market trades number exceeds 133 thousand in Kazakhstan | 
Kyrgyzstan
| Ambassador E. Omuraliev discusses labor migration issues with the representatives of Kyrgyz diaspora in Kazakhstan  
 Inflow of remittances to Kyrgyzstan increases by 7% to $324 million in 1 Qrt. 
 Migrants send humanitarian aid to Blind and Deaf Society in Kara-Suu 
 Up to 600 thousand labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Russia, - Ombudsman T. Akun  
 Chinese company to create 600 jobs for Batken residents  
 Pavel Dyatlenko: Russian nationalists do not represent a threat to workers  
 Soccer tournament for “Yntymak” Kyrgyz diaspora’s Cup held in USA 
 Kyrgyz diaspora in Moscow celebrates Victory Day 
 “Zamandash” Association expresses condolences to families and friends of those killed in Karaganda accident  | 
Tajikistan
| Issues of legal stay of Tajik migrants discussed in Dushanbe 
 Problems of labor migrants’ wives’ debated in Tajikistan  
 Migrants about migrants on stage of Moscow’s “Theater.doc” 
 Where can migrants renew expired passports? 
 Dushanbe reviews issues of improving migrants’ conditions  | 
Uzbekistan
| Labor law and social protection  
 Jobs are the bail for well-being 
 Russia prefers deporting Uzbeks rather than putting them on trial | 
Russia
| V. Putin instructs to introduce examination in Russian and history for migrants 
 
 Federal Migration Service staff detained on suspicion of illegal issuance of passports 
 Expert: Introducing tests for migrants will lead to emergence of new corruption schemes  
 Trial case on unlawful cut of migration quota for Gastarbeiter launched in Sverdlovsk oblast  
 Parents wanted to sell their daughter in Moscow for 150,000 rubles  | 
Multilateral
| Nazarbayev and Atambayev agree to simplify residence regime of Kyrgyz citizens in Kazakhstan 
 Administration of Executive Committee of CIS to meet Director of International Organization for Migration in Minsk 
 CIS migrants to be a solution to natural decline of population in Russia  | 
International News
| “Violence is generated by political isolation, the fight for resources, unemployment and corruption” - UN Secretary-General  
 Barcelona opposes Madrid defending its illegal immigrants  
 Easier for Ukrainians to find work in Italy  
 Residence permit in Latvia is popular among foreigners  | 
Analytics
| Export of labor considered to be harmful both literally and figuratively 
 Tajik migration to Russia 
 Migrants between xenophobia and amnesty 
 Zh. Kuvat: Many Kyrgyz trust and go to “Russia” as a panacea...  
 International Labor Organization: “A child is walking with a box …” 
 A. Meshkov: When I was a Russian Gastarbeiter in Tajikistan. Part 2  | 
Publications
| “Migration and remittances. Facts and Figures”, 2nd edition, 2011  
 “The World Migration Report 2011. Communicating Effectively About Migration”, IOM, 2011  | 
Announcements
| Online conference: “May I be employed: rights of foreigners to work in the Ukraine” On May 11, 2012 Expert Company HeadHunter Ukraine, lawyer Anne Vojvodina, will answer all the questions relating opportunities, rights and guarantees of employment of foreign citizens in the Ukraine. In the framework of the Internet conference various options for legal employment and how to implement each option can be learned. In Russian: . | 
 
                        