DUSHANBE, December 22, 2009, Asia-Plus — A survey formally titled “Public Monitoring and Analysis of Processes of Labor Migration from Tajikistan to Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Region” was presented in Dushanbe on December 22.
The survey was supposed to be presented on December 16 but the presentation ceremony was postponed at first to December 18 and then to December 22 as representatives of Yekaterinburg Interethnic Information Center were delayed in arriving in Dushanbe.
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.
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.
The meeting participants included representatives of a number of Tajik governmental institutions and NGOs, international organizations active in the country as well the Russian Federation.
