Kyrgyzstan’s “own” aliens from abroad

12.02.2013 10:56 msk Migration Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan

The tragic events of June 2010 in Southern Kyrgyzstan impacted not only the lives of those involved, but also of those abroad. Ethnic Kyrgyz citizens of Uzbekistan moved to Kyrgyzstan. The major reason is discrimination on part of Uzbeks and fear. However, having “returned” to their historical motherland, these people are facing numerous difficulties, although relevant laws grant them the “Kayrylman” [Returnee] status and guarantees social services. The law on “State guarantees for ethnic Kyrgyz” defines Kayrylman as “an ethnic Kyrgyz, a citizen of another country or a stateless person, who voluntarily returns to the historical motherland and obtains the Kayrylman status, which is a temporary legal status maintained by the bearer until obtaining the citizenship of Kyrgyzstan.”

Glimpse at misery Turkmen illegals face in Turkey

17.01.2013 11:40 msk Migration Turkey, Republic of

According to the Haberler.com Turkish news portal, a woman from Turkmenistan, Ms. Mehriban Gurbanova, was killed during a family skirmish with her 27-year old husband from Ukraine on 13 January 2013; three more women from Turkmenistan suffered injures. According to local police, the man came to demand the debt one of the women owed him; having faced resistance, he used a knife. Another three Turkmen female citizens were poisoned at a New Year party having consumed poor quality alcohol, which killed them. One of the women died in a hospital after five days, still unconscious. Everyone at the party was in Turkey illegally. The deceased woman’s body was delivered to her native town of Mary, Turkmenistan, and her husband was deported. The person who brought the alcoholic beverage was identified – he is in hospital treated for alcohol poisoning…

Uzbekistan: Jamshid Mukhtorov arrested in the USA and a former police officer from Uzbekistan used to be friends

24.02.2012 21:57 msk Migration Uzbekistan

In the course of the journalist investigation of the case of Jamshid Mukhtorov, arrested in the U.S upon terrorist charges, Fergana learned of another refugee from Uzbekistan, formerly a high ranking police officer in Jizak, who had been granted political asylum in the United States at about the same time as Jamshid. This phenomenon has been discovered some time ago. Back in 2007, a famous human right defender Talib Yakubov wrote the following in his article: “Both persecuted and persecutors flee from Uzbekistan. A high ranking police officer Zoir Sharipov, formerly in charge of the counterterrorism activities in the Jizak regional department of police, responsible for torturing dozens if not hundreds of people, has successfully settled down in New York as a result of events in Andizhan. It’ a mystery how he managed to enter the United States and obtain the political asylum”.

US think tanks are interested in the migration processes in Russia and religious situation among migrants

03.09.2010 10:40 msk Migration Russia

US think tanks, specifically, the Kennan Institute and Center for Strategic and International Studies, explore various aspects of labor migration in Russia. In order to collect preliminary information about migration flows, statistics and opinions of Russian experts the research teams visited the number of big Russian cities, including Yekaterinburg. Ferghana.Ru correspondent met the scholars and learned about the migration aspects, interesting for American researchers.

Tajikistan: Irrecoverable Losses

15.07.2009 15:19 msk Migration Tajikistan

Bodies of 65 labor immigrants were returned to Tajikistan from Russia in caskets in the first five months of 2009. in caskets The Death rate among the Tajiks seeking employment in Russia remains more or less unchanged year after year. Some of them die of natural causes, of course, but very many are murdered. Here is a story of three sisters who died in the Russian city of Surgut and of how immigration is unstoppable.

Uzbek Gastarbeiters learn new trades in the United States

20.05.2009 12:13 msk Migration Uzbekistan

Uzbek intelligentsia found itself in a definitely bizarre, if not outright paradoxical, situation. Well-educated, smart, and talented as they are, these people are compelled to seek employment abroad where they end up doing backbreaking and low-paid menial labor more often than not. As a matter of fact, the necessity to seek employment abroad is in itself something paradoxical for the wealthy Uzbekistan. It is a lot of both workers and intelligentsia.

Russia: New web site for Gastarbeiters from Kyrgyzstan presented in Moscow

01.12.2008 17:36 msk Migration Russia

KGinfo.ru was presented in Moscow as a web site for labor immigrants from Kyrgyzstan. Authors of the project believe that information posted on the web site will make adaptation in Russia easier. Contacts with labor immigrants as the target group is one of the main problems of the web site organizers. According to Egemberdiyev, Kyrgyz media outlets promised help with promotion of the web site. This correspondent was repeatedly told at the presentation ceremony that families of the Gastarbeiters working in Russia will be able to communicate with "their" relatives via the web site from "any Internet-cafe in Kyrgyzstan."

Kazakhstan: Tougher Laws Needed To Prevent Labour Abuse, Slavery

17.07.2008 23:36 msk Migration Kazakhstan

Expert-Kazakhstan: Migration prompts economic degradation in Uzbekistan

22.01.2008 18:37 msk Migration Uzbekistan

The Uzbeks are considered the most settled nation in the Central Asia region. They would leave their homeland as a last resort. However, population outflow has significantly increased in the recent years. Those who had left the country before 1992 would hardly come back. The state in its turn tacitly fosters illegal immigration by relying on remittances sent by immigrants.

How citizens of Uzbekistan work as Gastarbeiters in Tajikistan

09.01.2008 16:12 msk Migration Tajikistan

That citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan seek employment in Russia and Kazakhstan is common knowledge. What information is available to Ferghana.Ru, however, indicates that some Uzbek Gastarbeiters are willing to work in Tajikistan as well.

Army of labor immigrants from Tajikistan is swelling in numbers, and nothing can stop the process

26.12.2007 12:13 msk Migration Tajikistan

Labor immigrants return from Russia to Tajikistan by the hundred to meet the New Year with their families. Experts from the Russian Federal Service of Immigration and Immigration Service of the Tajik Interior Ministry claim that practically every Tajik family has at least one Gastarbeiter coming home for the New Year celebration. Immigrants Day is celebrated throughout the international community (and in Tajikistan) on December 18. A roundtable conference took place in Dushanbe that day.

The first reception center for refugees in all of Central Asia is to be established in Kyrgyzstan

12.11.2007 19:59 msk Migration Kyrgyzstan

The first reception center for refugees in all of Central Asia will be opened in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, today. UN Commissar for Refugees Antonio Gutteres will attend the ceremony, and so will Aigul Ryskulova, acting head of the Kyrgyz committee for immigration.

Nearly 100,000 Chinese entered Kazakhstan in 2006

11.10.2007 12:01 msk Migration Kazakhstan

Almost 100,000 Chinese entered the territory of Kazakhstan in 2006 and only 5,000 of them obtained the official permit to remain, Yelena Sadovskaya said at her press conference in Alma-Ata on October 98. (Sadovskaya is an expert of the Research Council for Immigration of the CIS and Baltic states within the Immigration Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.)

How do immigrants from CIS countries become Muscovites?

03.09.2007 13:19 msk Migration Russia

The capital of Russia celebrates Moscow Day on September 1. Needless to say, it is Muscovites Day as well. As things stand meanwhile, Moscow is being built by the people colloquially known a Gastarbeiters from the former Soviet republics. Many of them make some money and immediately leave for the distant Motherland. Others, however, chose to stay in Moscow. Contrary to the widespread opinion, labor immigrants are not just street-cleaners and seasonal workers. There are lots of doctors and scientists, designers and actors, restaurateurs and businessmen among them.

Kazakhstan: Right Union leader urges his followers to vote the United Social Democratic Party

26.07.2007 15:53 msk Migration Kazakhstan

Anatoly Ahmetov, leader of the Kazakh Right Union, joined the United Social Democratic Party and urged owners of autos with right side steering wheel to vote this party in the forthcoming Majilis election.