DUSHANBE, October 19, Asia-Plus -- A roundtable meeting entitled “Labor Migration from Central Asia and Migration Policy in Russia’s Urals” opened at the Kokhi Vahdat State Complex in Dushanbe today morning.  

The meeting is organized by the Perspective+ Public Association in cooperation with the Interior Ministry Migration Service under support of the Government and the Tajik Branch of Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation (OSI/AF).

Rukhshona Olimova, media program coordinator, Tajik Branch of OSI/AF, said the meetings is considering issues related to elaborating a strategy of cooperation and furthering initiatives aimed at tackling problems of labor migration from Central Asia to Russia’s Urals region.  

The meeting participants, including representatives from the Tajik Drug Control Agency, Committee for Women’s Affairs and Family, local and international organizations, media as well as representatives from the government of Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, Russian Federal Migration Service’s director for the Urals region, and Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), are discussing the labor migration situation in the Urals Federal District and considering examples of successful experience in tackling the labor migration problems and legalization and adaptation of labor migrants in the Urals.  

The meeting is also supposed to elaborate recommendations on reducing the rate of crime among labor migrants and discuss some provisions of the new Russian migration legislation.