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BISHKEK (TCA) — After entering the Eurasian Economic Union in August 2015, Kyrgyzstan has joined to the single labor market of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Russia. Kyrgyzstan’s citizens working in Russia no longer need to buy labor patents and take exams on the Russian language and Russia’s history and law. Kyrgyzstan’s university diplomas are recognized in the EEU. After receiving such privileges, more Kyrgyz citizens have left for Russia, as the unemployment at home has forced them to move abroad in search of a better life. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — High levels of unemployment remain the main factor in persistent numbers of Uzbek citizens wandering out, mainly to the Russian Federation, looking for better paid jobs. But it looks as though an improving economy is now starting to make it more and more attractive for Uzbek migrant labourers to try their luck at home once more, despite the draconic grip by the state on economic activity and still rampant corruption and extortion. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Labour migration is as old as human statehood: ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome benefited from it. But the process is dynamic with ups and downs accompanying changes in economic patterns. Russia’s economic recovery is thereby good news for those seeking jobs. And it does not necessarily hinder economic development in migrants’ homelands provided their public and private sectors apply the right strategy – as the case of Kyrgyzstan illustrates. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A street performance aimed to draw the attention of citizens to illegal migration and trafficking in human beings was held in Bishkek earlier this week. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The families of migrants who have left Tajikistan in search of work abroad will be an important focus of a new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) project set to get under way here soon, FAO in Tajikistan said on July 12. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the Government of Finland, on June 23 launched a conference on Employment, Trade, and Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, the UNDP in Kazakhstan said. Continue reading
