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Current topic: Temporary migrant workers in Russia

• Four channels of legal migration of foreigners

• From what countries come blue and white collar workers

• Foreign workers: a demographic and socio-professional profile

• Regional features of temporary labor migration of foreigners

• Russian migrant workers and foreign workers: colleagues or competitors?

• Conclusion

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

International migrants: 2013

• December 18 the UN marked the Day of International Migrants, whose number has increased to 232 million people

• In 2000-2010, the number of international migrants grew most rapidly in Oceania and Asia; in 2010-2013,  in Africa and Oceania

• The share of international migrants in the population of developed countries has risen to 10.8 %;  in Oceania, to 20.7%

• The proportion of refugees among international migrants is going down;  in 2013 it was 7% worldwide and 21% in the least developed countries

• In developed countries, women predominate among migrants; in developing countries it’s men

• International migrants are older than the general population

• The age and sex structure of international migrants in different geographic regions is not the same

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Russia’s migration strategy and the policy of tolerance

• “Wait for and don’t forget me!”  The Ukrainian transnational family as an object of gender analysis

• Labor migration to Russia and matrimonial behavior in Central Asia

• The psychological cost of women’s migration from the Georgian village of Daba Tianeti

• Differences in the state of health of migrants and the native population in Russia and other states of the European region

Polls: Q & A

• Russians on life and death

• On contraception, abortion and surrogacy

• Surrogate mothers: heroines or outcasts?

• The ban on smoking in public places and on the sale of alcoholic drinks

In the vastness of Russia

• Will Russia see a natural population increase in 2013?

• Housing policy should become the deciding factor of demographic development

• Minimum wage in Moscow in 2014 will come to 12,600 rubles

• The republics of the North Caucasus and southern Siberia are still lagging behind in quality of life

• Changing pension fund each year will be allowed

• Ministry of Labor plans awareness campaign on pension reform

• Proposal to reduce required work experience for pension eligibility to 5.5 years for mothers of large families

• Maternity capital payouts to be extended 5 or 10 years

• Bill in State Duma regarding plots of land for large families

• The shortage of places in Russian kindergartens shrank by over 360 thousand in 2013

• State Duma passes bill on benefits for orphans when enrolling in universities

• In 2014 the Ministry of Labor will take up the problem of illegal labor

• 100 thousand Russians to receive support from “New Employment” program

• Putin proposes creation of federal database of job vacancies

• The number of registered unemployed in November increased to 864.5 thousand people

• Starting in 2015 fingerprints will be included in biometric passport

• No visa-free regime between Russia and EU for 2014

• State Duma passes anti-“rubber flat” law in third reading

• Russia needs up to 300 thousand migrants annually

• FMS is developing a new patent system for migrants

• State Duma limits stay of migrants in Russia to 90 days within 6-month period

• In 2014 Russia will give foreigners about 96,000 temporary residence permits

• According to Putin there are from 1.5 million to 5 million Ukrainian migrants in Russia

• Decision on immigration amnesty could be ready by first quarter of 2014

• LDPR leader proposes to send migrants to regions short on workers

• FMS counts 3.6 million illegal migrants

• Matvienko calls for new spin on the fight against illegal migration

• Migrant workers required to take Russian language exam

• Putin demands support for teachers of Russian to migrant children

• Neither nationality nor religion entitles one to special rights, says Putin

• State Duma toughens penalties for parents whose children drink alcohol

• Moscow police has fined over 850 people for violating anti-smoking law

• All types of cancer can be treated in Russia; there is no need to go abroad

• Mortality in Moscow jails has more than halved in recent years

• Russia to build 32 new perinatal centers by 2016

• The number of doctors in Russia is half that of WHO norm

• Mass medical examination program to be in full operation within two years

• Roshal opposes entry into force of new rules for providing emergency medical care starting in January 2014

• More than 60% of Russia’s population live in harsh environments

• Shakhrai regrets not including in Constitution that marriage is between a man and a woman

Eurasian panorama

• Ukraine’s population down by 6.5 million over past 20 years

• The number of Ukrainians down by 100 thousand over past year

• More than a third of Kirgizia’s population are children and adolescents

• Over 6 million people have been born in Kazakhstan since its independence

• Almaty population exceeds 1.5 million people

• Natural population increase in Armenia 10,209 people in 9 months

• Over 13,470 marriages registered in Armenia in the first 9 months of 2013

• Life expectancy in Moldova is 70.88 years

• In Moldova, no problems with registering children at birth

• The number of poor rural people in Kazakhstan is three times higher than in cities

• Average monthly nominal wage in Kazakhstan has increased 836-fold in past 20 years

• Average salary in Moldova up by 8.7%

• Moldovan government to increase average salary in 2014

• In Belarus, remuneration system for state employees to be simplified

• Belarus will spend Br72 trillion on pensions in 2014

• In 2014 pensions in Armenia will rise by 40%

• Social payments in Ukraine will not go down in 2014

• For Tajikistan’s poor, higher education almost beyond reach

• Employment in public sector of Azerbaijan economy growing rapidly

• Real unemployment benefits in Azerbaijan down by 1.5% in November

• Unemployment rate in Ukraine has grown to 1.5%

• Belarus specifies list of foreigners not subject to registration

• Kirgizia plans to give residence permits to foreigners for investments of $500,000

• As a result of migration Moldova has lost one quarter of its population in last 10 years

• Moldovan migrants denied entry to Russia on a massive scale

• Kirgizia proposes that Russia approve quota for Kirgiz labor migrants

• Could Kirgiz migrants working in Russia find a job at home?

• 70% of work quotas in Kirgizia were received by Chinese citizens

• Belarus to receive over 1.8 million euros to solve problem of illegal migration

• Hundreds of Georgian citizens had fake refugee IDs

• Around two thousand citizens of Kazakhstan have perished abroad in past three years

• By 2017 Kazakhstan plans to lose its place among countries with greatest prison population

World news

• Ethnic Macedonians face extinction

• Will life expectancy in the developed countries reach 120 in 30 years?

• Most Japanese oppose lowering the age of majority

• 26% of Estonians live in poverty

• Retirement age in Latvia to start rising as of January 2014

• Most residents of Lithuania do not think about retirement

• Proposal in Lithuania to return pensions to certain groups

• Social payments in Estonia come to 1768 euros per person

• In the EU 5.7 million young people under 25 are unemployed

• To obtain a residence permit in Lithuania foreigners create fictitious companies

• Latvia puts restrictions on acquisition of residence permits for foreigner entrepreneurs

• Information published on remittances of migrants in EU

• Romania urges EU to prepare to receive 500-600 thousand Moldovan migrant workers from Russia

• In Latvia, comics about Latvians for immigrants

• The number of displaced persons in Sudan’s Darfur is about 1.9 million people

• UN requests $6.5 billion to help Syria

• Russia has allocated humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

• Most Muslims in Europe consider religious rules more important than laws

• The number of Russian speakers in the world has gone down by over 100 thousand people in the past 20 years

• Alcohol consumption in Lithuania goes down

• In 2012 8.2 million people died from cancer worldwide

• Over 100 people have died from dengue fever in the Dominican Republic

• In Madagascar, 20 people have died from bubonic plague

• British are promised massive free diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

• Swedish scientists create new drug to fight Alzheimer’s disease

• As part of the fight against air pollution China reduces number of automobiles

• UK will not introduce separate university education for men and women

The newspapers write about….

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on Putin’s message

• “Vedomosti” on the family and fertility in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on migration problems in Russia

• “Vedomosti” on expanding the system of patents for foreign workers

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the length of visa-free stays in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on regional policy and migration

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the adaptation of migrants

• “Polit.ru” on social orphanhood and the proposed deportation of pregnant migrants

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta”  on the possibility for foreign workers to contact the  FSB anonymously

• “Uzmetronom.com” on keeping records of Uzbek citizens traveling abroad for work

• “BBCRussian.com” and “Kommersant” on the reincarnation of the propiska

• “Vremya” on freedom of movement in the EU  

• “Litovskiy kurer” on “stopping migration” in Lithuania

• “Slovo.kg” on labor migration from Kirgizia to Kazakhstan

• “FINANCE.UA” on how  citizens of Kirgizia must go home

• “Paruskg.info” on the Russian language in Central Asia

• “Gazeta.ru” on the “youth bulge”

• “Den” on demographic problems of Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the maternity capital

• “Slon.ru” on low fertility

• “Slon.ru” on the cost of a bride and fertility

• “Kommersant” on marriage and nationality

• “Belarus sevodnya” on marriage and divorce in Belarus

• “Independent” on polygamy as a remedy for poverty in Kazakhstan

• “Biznes & Baltiya” on a health tax in Latvia

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on socially dangerous diseases in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on slowing consumer demand

• “Vedomosti” on retirement strategies for the elderly

• “Izvestiya” on tax incentives for retirees to keep working

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the “financial behavior” of singles  

• “Postimees” on benefits for the poor in Narva

• “Novye izvestiya” on the 50% growth in labor productivity

• “Novye izvestiya” on children as a “cover” for legislative initiatives

• “Slate.fr” and “Le Monde” on selective abortion in India, the South Caucasus, the Balkans and Asia Minor

• “Zerkalo.az” on abortions in Azerbaijan

• “Lenta.ru” on the consequences of nuclear conflicts

• “FINANCE.UA” on urbanization in China

• “Slon.ru” on the “de-urbanization” of Portugal

• “Vatan” on voting rights and the status of women in Turkey

Read books and magazines

• A history of population censuses in Russia

• The family and human development.  A report on the development of human potential in the Republic of Bashkortostan

• Kazakhstan: Health system review.  Health Systems in Transition.

• Demographic Yearbook 2012

• What is ethnic discrimination and what can be done about it

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO)” (“The Economics and Organization of Industrial Production”)

• Contents of the journal “Gender and Development”

Profession: researcher

• Socio-demographic shifts: factors and prospects.  International conference in Kiev

• At Gaidar Readings, discussion of political demography in Russia and the world

• On the 85^th anniversary of German V. Milner (1928-1996)

• G.V. Milner.  Some issues concerning the analysis of the causes of migration

New in the reading room

• V.F. Shukailo.  Towards a demo-economic theory of mortality

Satirical column?

• The illegal baby and the Snow Maiden.  A Christmas tale.