Abstract
In recent years, “the Kyrgyz infrastructure” began to develop in Moscow: “Kyrgyz clinics,” kindergartens, courses for preparing children for school, and real estate agencies made their appearance in the city. This infrastructure emerged as a result of the social exclusion of labor migrants in Russia. The Kyrgyz people have a special status in Russia as citizens of the EAEU. Despite this fact, they, like other migrants, face discrimination in the labor market and in accessing medical assistance. The chapter analyzes the emergence of the infrastructure created by migrants in Moscow and the reasons why the Kyrgyz community succeeded in this endeavor.
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Registration refers to a form of keeping track of (and constraining) the citizens’ permanent or médium-term movement between regions. This system is inherited from the Soviet era. Every citizen of Russia or a foreign country must, whenever he or she changes address, make an official declaration as to the place where he will subsequently be resident.
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Demintseva, E. (2020). The Infrastructure Created by Migrants: The Case of Migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow. In: Denisenko, M., Strozza, S., Light, M. (eds) Migration from the Newly Independent States. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7_10
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