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Current topic: Kazakhstan in the system of international labor migration

• Twenty years of labor migration

• Labor migration from Kazakhstan

• Legal labor migration to Kazakhstan

• The size and structure of undocumented labor migration to Kazakhstan

• Centers of gravity of migrant workers

• “Migrant networks” and adaptation problems of immigrants

• Multiplicative effects of labor migration: pros and cons

• Challenges of the second decade of the 21^st century

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

• Remittances from international migrants: 2013

• In 2013 remittances from international migrants, according to preliminary estimates of the World Bank, will be 549 billion dollars, of which 414 billion went to developing countries

• The largest recipients of remittances - up to U.S. $60 billion and more – are India and China

• The largest volume of remittances comes from the U.S., 1.6-1.8 times more than from Russia, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland

• Remittances from the United States are essential to Latin America; from the Gulf countries, to South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa; and from Russia to Europe and Central Asia

• The cost of remittances is decreasing, but remains generally high, especially in the "South - South" corridors

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Tajikistan: the role and status of women in migrant households

• Gender socialization of children in the context of labor migration from Tajikistan

• Gender aspects of the labor market in Tajikistan

• Demographic aspects of socio-economic development of Uzbekistan

• Providing employment and creating new jobs in the Republic of  Uzbekistan

• Statistics of internal migration and youth migration in Almaty

• Migration processes in modern Kirgizia

Take care of women!

• HIV/AIDS in Europe - 2012

In the vastness of Russia

• Ministry of Labor registers positive trends in the demographic situation

• Average life expectancy in Russia is 70.5 years

• The total fertility rate in Russia is higher than in many European countries

• During 2013 the population of Chechnya increased by 21.7 thousand people

• For the next 10 years Russia should not return to the question of raising the retirement age

• Are 25 million Russians ready to move from the cities to the country?

• Ministry of Education expects shortage of school places

• In past five years over 30 thousand children have been adopted from orphanages

• In each region of Russia no more than 3 orphanages should remain

• 79 orphans unable to leave for U.S. due to new law have not found new families

• Real disposable income of Russians in 2013 increased by 3.3%

• 11% of Russians have income not exceeding the subsistence minimum

• About 10% of Russians’ spending goes to pay utility bills

• After recalculation the size of retirement pensions will increase by 665 rubles

• Half of Russians believe that their pensions should be handled by the authorities

• Ministry of Labor considers it premature to introduce hourly wages

• Finance Ministry proposes to review social policy, including the maternity capital

• Ministry of Labor is working on measures to protect maternity capital from fraud

• Young mothers to be provided free legal aid

• Experts do not expect serious disturbances on the labor market in Russia in 2014

• Medvedev proposes to create favorable conditions for scientists to stay in Russia

• In 2013 65 thousand debtors from Moscow and the region were not allowed to travel abroad

• Starting in 2014 all foreigners receiving visas will be fingerprinted

• In 2013 the number of expulsions of Russian migrants more than doubled

• Foreigners will be able to check the website of the FMS to see if they are allowed entry to Russia

• Prosecutors find FMS guilty of insufficient control over migrants’ employers

• Issuance of work permits to migrants has added 2 billion rubles to Moscow’s budget

• Ministry of Labor proposes to include migrants in compulsory social insurance

• Developers of the general plan of Moscow will take into account the number of illegal migrants

• There will be no hotels for migrants in Novokosino

• During the first half of 2013 over 18 thousand migrants were given certificates in the Russian language

• Mortality from cancer growing in Russia

• State Duma approves in first reading fines for abortion violations

• Proposal to pay for treatment of rare diseases with funds from the federal budget

• The number of crimes against minors in 2013 increased by 24.2%

• Patriarch urges authorities to stop attempts to legalize same-sex marriage

Eurasian Panorama

• Population of Moldova will shrink by one-third by 2050

• Kazakhstan’s Akhtuba agglomeration cannot accommodate more than 1.3 million people

• In 2013 the volume of industrial production in Ukraine fell by 4.7%

• Standard & Poor’s downgrades Ukraine’s ratings

• Per capita income in Belarus reaches $394

• In 2013 real wages in Belarus increased by 15.8%

• Average salary in Kazakhstan grew by 7.6% last year

• Armenia has highest unemployment in CIS

• In Kirgizia, 210,000 unemployed

• Georgia will not revoke the citizenship of those who have received foreign citizenship

• Tajikistan and Kirgizia resume talks on border issue

• Citizens of Tajikistan will be able to extend their stay in Russia for the duration of their work permit

• Kirgizia proposes that Russia let migrants obtain required documents in home country before leaving

• Over 21 thousand citizens of Moldova won’t be able to enter Russia

• Ukraine confirms introduction of restrictions on the migration of citizens of Moldova

• Kazakhstan lowers foreign worker quota

• Tax for migrant domestic workers in Astana will be $25

• Remittance inflows to Kirgizia over 11 months in 2013 came to $1.733 billion

• UN allocates $5.85 million to Azerbaijan for assistance to refugees

• “The Assembly of Peoples of Georgia” to support initiative to revive Russian schools abroad

• In 2013 the bodies of 942 Tajik citizens were repatriated to Tajikistan from Russia

• Russia to help Tajikistan in drug control

World news

• China’s population in 2013 increased by 6.68 million people

• Population of Estonia down by 10 thousand people over past year

• With fertility falling in Finland, population growth due mainly to migrants

• By 2035 will there be practically no poor countries left in the world?

• Obama tells how to fight poverty and inequality

• Lithuania to pay for pensions by raising the price of alcohol

• In Lithuania 22 thousand children live in poor conditions

• In 2013 241 orphans were adopted in Latvia

• Lithuania amends law to ban adoptions by same-sex families

• The number of unemployed in the world increased in 2013 to 5 million people

• EU approves Latvian program to combat unemployment

• Latvia facing shortage of workers

• Obama proposes to reduce taxes for companies creating jobs in U.S.

• UK to limit social benefits for unemployed workers from the European Union

• European Parliament speaks out against the possibility of buying EU citizenship

• “Non-citizens” in Latvia are guaranteed all rights

• Foreign nationals will be able to visit Romania on Schengen visas

• Returning expats are buying up real estate in Lithuania

• During the period of the foreign worker amnesty around 4 million migrants legalized their status in Saudi Arabia

• In 2013 Norwegian authorities deported a record number of foreigners

• Kuwait plans to expel hundreds of thousands of illegal workers

• Over a thousand Syrians have requested temporary asylum in Russia

• UK to give 500 refugees from Syria temporary asylum

• 70 years after the Holocaust in Europe, anti-Semitism is on the rise

• Around 200 thousand Christians have been killed in the world over the past two years, excluding Syria

• Albania concerned about the rising number of AIDS patients

• Egypt records 13 cases of swine flu

• WHO reports new wave of bird flu in China

• Estonia is Europe’s leader in the number of women with uterine cancer

• Permission given to check American newborns for mental retardation

• Over 9 million Americans have received health care thanks to reform

• Beijing authorities adopt new regulation to fight air pollution

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant dengi” on toughening Russia’s migration legislation

• “Novye Izvestiya” on migrants stranded in the border zone

• “Izvestiya” on the “migration amnesty” and quotas for migrants

• “Izvestiya” on the resale of quotas for migrant jobs

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on patents instead of work permits

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the regulation of migrant labor in trade

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on fingerprinting foreigners

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migrants and crime

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on camps for foreigners subject to deportation

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on migration from Kirgizia to Russia

• “Ekho” on illegal migration in Azerbaijan

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the problems of the Kirgiz-Tajik border

• “Zerkalo Nedeli” on emigration from Ukraine

• “Le Huffington Post” on Bulgaria, Romania and Schengen

• “Kommersant” on the discontent of the European Parliament over the Maltese passport trade

• “FINANCE.UA” on attracting foreign workers for the Japanese Olympics

• “Slon.ru” on the migration of youth to regional centers

• “Novye Izvestiya” on migration from Moscow

• “Belarus sevodnya” on “taking the load off” Minsk

• “Izvesitya” on taking illegal migrants into account for the General Plan of Moscow

• “Slon.ru” on the history of Chinese migration to Moscow

• “Kommersant” on state-sponsored study abroad

• “Slon.ru” on the demographic situation in the countries of Eastern Europe

• “Den” on the demographic future of Ukraine

• “Vesti.md” on a possible reduction in the population of Moldova

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on fertility in Moscow

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on stimulating fertility

• “Paruskg.info” on the maternity capital in Kirgizia

• “Gazeta.ru” on alcoholism as a cause of high mortality

• “Novye Izvestiya” on mortality due to bad roads

• “La Repubblica” on infant mortality in the world

• “The Times” on gender-based abortions in the UK

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the shortage of women in China as an economic problem

• “FINANCE.UA” on the task of increasing life expectancy in Kazakhstan

• “Russkiy Reporter” on obesity

• “Independent” on plague epidemics

• “The Nation” on a conservative international

• “Novye Izvestiya” on employment in the shadow economy

• “Vedomosti” on the “middle income trap”

• “BBCRussian.com” on pension problems in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the pension age

• “La Nacion Argentina” on poverty in the world

• “Novye Izvestiya” on juvenile justice and social patronage

• “Izvestiya” on taking care of the homeless

• “Kommersant”, “Vlast” and “Dengi” on monotowns

• “Vedomosti” on a development strategy for Moscow

• “Pour la Science” on endangered languages

• “Slate” on the value of the maiden name

News from the blogosphere

• News from the blogosphere: new section

• Let me go home!

Read books and magazines

• Selected demographic works of A.G. Volkov

• International labor migration in Central Asia at the beginning of the XXI century (as exemplified by the Republic of Kazakhstan)

• The consequences of Kirgizia’s entering the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space for the labor market and the country’s human capital

• Demographic Yearbook of Russia. 2013

• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan

• The standard of living in Kazakhstan

• Through the pages of the magazines “Rossiyskaya Migratsiya” (“Russian Migration”) and “Terapevticheskiy arkhiv” (“Therapeutic Archive”)

• Contents of the journal “Migrations Societe”

Profession: researcher

• Anniversary of Valentine Sergeevna Steshenko

• A word about V.S. Steshenko

• Series of periodicals edited by V.S. Steshenko

• V.S. Steshenko. On the concepts of demographic development and human development similarities and differences

• Happy anniversary to Elena Yurievna Sadovskaya