Thursday, 07 September 2006

KAZAKH MIGRANT-LEGALIZATION PROGRAM CONTINUES

Published in News Digest

By empty (9/7/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Under the terms of a program to legalize migrant workers in Kazakhstan, a total of 45,440 such workers have been registered by the Interior Ministry. They include 33,500 Uzbek citizens (74.4 percent of the total), 6,000 Kyrgyz citizens (13.
Under the terms of a program to legalize migrant workers in Kazakhstan, a total of 45,440 such workers have been registered by the Interior Ministry. They include 33,500 Uzbek citizens (74.4 percent of the total), 6,000 Kyrgyz citizens (13.4 percent), 1,850 Russian citizens (4.1 percent), and 1,450 Tajik citizens (3.2 percent). Most of the migrants (12,935 individuals) were registered in Almaty and Almaty province. Most are employed in the construction industry (24,682), with smaller numbers employed in the service sector (3,946) and agriculture (3,033). The program, which is expected to register 100,000 migrant workers by the end of the year, allows illegal migrants who entered Kazakhstan less than 60 days before the law was passed earlier this summer to legalize their status. The Interior Ministry estimates that Kazakhstan is currently home to 200,000-300,000 illegal migrant workers from CIS countries.(Interfax-Kazakhstan)
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