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5 NEWS ABOUT MIGRATION ON OFWs WORKING IN OTHER COUNTRIES: The Worst Year For OFW's? 31 July 2011 "OFWs are still forced to go abroad because the government has offered them noth ing substantive and sustainable to address their families's economic needs. Instead, what it has offered are mere dole-outs and band-aid solutions that does not do anything to address widespread unemployment and landlessness the root ca use of forced migration." - Migrante International OFW News: Enforcing PHL's Labor Migration Regulations Suspect, S ays Economist 28 July 2011 by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO MANILA-THE world's model for managing the outflow of migrant workers might be ha ving a hard time implementing the various regulations on overseas employment, sa ys a Filipino economist. Dr. Aniceto Orbeta is referring to the Philippines as that global model, whose n early-40-year-old bureaucratic army handling the exodus of workers for overseas job is noted by international organizations as a yardstick. The Philippines is a lso renowned for its various laws and administrative regulations on overseas emp loyment. But a recent policy paper co-authored by this senior fellow of the Philippine In stitute of Development Studies (PIDS) wrote that regulations on the deployment a nd recruitment of migrant workers are "only as good as capacities to implement". Pinoy Teachers Sackings In Maryland Brings Call For Radical Reth ink On OFW's 20 July 2011 By Marivir Montebon Migrant Heritage Commission Managing Editor In the spate of big labor trafficking cases in the US, the the Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC) has called Philippine President Benigno Aquino Jr. to address t he problem on massive poverty in the country and to stop using "blood and sweat" capital of its citizens as its way to pump prime the economy. "Exporting labor as a way to make the Philippines survive cannot go on forever. The Aquino government must now take the more strategic route of industrializing the Philippines and providing education and jobs to its people in its own shores ," said Arnedo Valera, co-executive director of MHC, a Washington, DC-based not for profit organization serving immigrants in the US. OFW News Briefs OFW News Digest by the OFW Journalism Consortium Negrense workers warned over illegal recruitment schemes

BACOLOD CITY-THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration here is warning j obseekers about falling prey to various forms of illegal recruitment activities. These forms include consultancy firms, student visas, Internet job advertisement s, travel agencies, and offers from persons-cum-brokers offering overseas jobs. OFW Remittance Slowdown To Narrow PHL's Current Account Surplus 9 July 2011 An OFW Journalism Consortium exclusive by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO MANILA THE World Bank projects that the country s current account surplus this year will narrow, partly as a result the increasing trade deficit and the projected s lowdown of deployment of overseas Filipino workers. According to the World Bank s East Asia and Pacific Region in its quarterly update , the narrowing current account was due to, among others, the weakness of Philip pine exports in major export destination countries; the strengthening of the rea l value of the peso that impacts on export growth; and the migration-related dev elopments that will impact on the influx of more remittances from abroad. 2). 2 NEWS ABOUT INTERNAL MIGRATION: Internal migration a problem: UNDP Avinesh Gopal Monday, March 14, 2011 INTERNAL migration has serious repercussions on employment generation, says the United Nations Population Fund. UNFPA Pacific Sub - Regional Office director and representative, Dirk Jena said internal migration was a worldwide phenomenon. "We also look at internal migration and these are the things captured in the pop ulation census," he said in an interview with The Fiji Times. "Last year, more than half of the world's population lived in urban areas and th is has a repercussion on employment generation." Mr Jena was commenting on cases of youths being engaged in pushing wheelbarrows, polishing shoes and doing other odd jobs for a living. He said the involvement of youths in odd jobs in urban centres was the result of internal migration. He said a lot of people were leaving the rural areas and moving to urban centres , thus the difficulty in finding jobs. "What we try to support is planning in a broader sense as far as internal migrat ion is concerned." "In fact young people should grasp the opportunity they get in life and build fo r the future," he said. Russian Internal Migration Print-Friendly Version

February 1997 Volume 4 Number 2 Internal migration within Russia has been stymied by the Soviet-installed system of residency permits, known as propiska. Without a residency permit, it is near ly impossible for Russians to move to another city and find work or housing. The residency permit system has kept rural residents from flocking to urban areas, especially to cities such as Moscow. In recent years, a payment of about $7,000, equivalent to 500 times the minimum monthly wage, was required to secure a residence permit for Moscow. After the re sidence permit fee was challenged in court last year, Moscow's mayor canceled th e propiska, but asked the city council to charge a fee 300 times the minimum mon thly wage for newcomers who wish to purchase an apartment. The Moscow city counc il has so far refused to approve the fee. Apartments are ollapse of the ir inhabitants eir apartments the most valuable possession of many urban residents. Since the c Soviet government, most apartments were privatized or sold to the for a nominal sum. Most apartment owners cannot afford to sell th because real estate prices, especially in Moscow, have soared.

Some ethnic Russians who fled to Moscow before 1991 have found themselves consid ered "foreigners" because they do not have proper documentation to secure housin g, jobs and social services. Many were granted forced migrant or refugee status by the Russian Constitution, but still find themselves subject to local laws tha t often leave them with no status, and hence no services. The Russian population fell by 475,000 in 1996 to 147.5 million in January 1997. Some 97,500 emigrants left Russia in 1996, with over 90 percent moving to Germa ny, Israel and the US. Hazardous environmental conditions have forced about 700,000 persons to abandon their homes around Chernobyl, the Aral Sea and the Semipalatinsk nuclear test si te. There are an estimated 150,000 environmental migrants in the Ukraine, 75,000 in the Russian Federation and 145,000 in Belarus. Ecologists say there are more than 270 areas in the former Soviet Union where environmental contamination is forcing people to abandon their homes. A Belorussian official said that Belorussian border guards have been placed alon g the border with Russia in order to prevent African and Asian illegal immigrant s from entering. In 1996, border guards detained over 3,000 illegal immigrants, including 1,000 from Asia and Africa. The Ukraine and Belarus will set up a joint committee to study problems along th e 953-mile border that they share. Lithuanian border guards offer cash rewards to residents of the frontier town of Lazdijai who provided information about illegal immigrants. Lazdijai is located where Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and Russia meet. In December, tips from reside nts led to the arrests of about 400 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, India a nd Sri Lanka who had tried to enter Lithuania via Belarus. According to the Russian Federal Migration Service, the number one source of ill egal immigrants to Russia in 1996 was Afghanistan. The FMS estimates that six fa milies of Afghan refugees come to Moscow each day. An estimated 150,0000 illegal s from Afghanistan live in the Moscow metropolitan area. In 1996, about 20,000 Russians left Kyrgyzstan, down about 50 percent from 199495. About 6,000 Russian-speaking migrants returned to Kyrgyzstan from Russia in 1996.

There are about 750,000 Russians living in Kyrgyzstan, down from 900,000 recorde d in the Soviet census in 1989. More than 1.5 million people have been granted Russian citizenship since 1992, i ncluding 900,000 living outside Russia.