MIGRATION POLICY OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC TODAY
Keywords:
Kyrgyzstan, international migration, external labor migration, labor migrants, countries of origin, countries of destination, illegal migration, employment of the population.Abstract
This article examines several issues relating to migration in the Kyrgyz Republic today. It studies the regulatory and legislative framework and practice of implementing the country’s migration policy. The author carries out an institutional analysis of the migration management system. She identifies the most urgent problems of regulating the migratory flows occurring in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan based on the results of a sociological poll. She also draws corresponding conclusions and offers recommendations for harmonizing all the available migration management tools in practice, which is essential for raising the legitimacy of migration as a whole.
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