DUSHANBE, December 16, 2009, Asia-Plus — A survey formally titled “Public Monitoring and Analysis of Processes of Labor Migration from Tajikistan to Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Region” is being presented in Dushanbe today.
Initiated by the Tajik Branch of Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation (OSI/AF-Tajikistan), the survey was conducted by the Interethnic Information Center of the city of Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Sverdlovskaya region.
According to OSI/AF-Tajikistan, the survey includes three independent directions having influence on the situation of Tajik labor migrants in the Sverdlovskaya region: legal status of foreign citizens arriving in the Sverdlovskaya region for labor activity; migrants from Tajikistan in Yekaterinburg; and monitoring of coverage of migration subject in regional media of the Sverdlovskaya region.
The main objective of the survey is in studying, analyzing and assessing migration processes and the situation of Tajik labor migrants in the Sverdlovskaya region.
300 Tajik labor migrants working in the Sverdlovskaya region have been surveyed and 193 information and analytical materials have been studied through monitoring of 17 print and electronic media of the Sverdlovskaya region.
