The Agency for External Labor Migration denied the increase in the number of Uzbek labor migrants in Russia, as stated by the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov at the second Tashkent Investment Forum. Reshetnikov said that the number of Uzbek citizens coming to work in Russia has quadrupled in seven years.
The Agency for External Labor Migration noted that number of people heading to Russia for work had been highly variable depending on the working season.
Despite the fact that Russia accounts for the bulk of labor migrants from Uzbekistan, their number has not quadrupled over the past 7 years, the ministry said.
“If you look at the numbers, the number of Uzbek migrants in the Russian Federation in 2016 was about 2 million, and now it is about 1.5 million (-25%),” the report says.
The Agency also noted that in recent years it has been possible to expand the geography of labor migration, in particular, attracting citizens who want to work abroad to work in developed countries of the world. In particular, in South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Great Britain and other European countries there is a high demand for workers in various areas of construction, manufacturing, medicine and services.
To date, the agency has signed recruiting agreements with 500 employers from 33 countries.
