I come from a poor family. We lived in a region of Georgia bordering Azerbaijan. My parents survived by growing vegetables in their own garden. They did not have higher education or good jobs. They did not want my brother and I to have the same lives as them, so they did not let us
Tuberculosis changed my life dramatically. Although initially everything was going well. I was born in Yerevan into a family of a chauffeur. My mother was a teacher of Russian, and I had planned to follow in her footsteps, but in my third year at the Pedagogical Institute, I realized that I definitely did not want
Anna Ryl, Korgau-Astana foundation manager, talks about migrants’ life in Kazakhstan After Russia, Kazakhstan is the second leading country in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region by the number of migrants entering the country. Mainly, they arrive to Kazakhstan from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, as well as China and Turkey. For 15 years,
I was born in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan, in the city of Osh. My father worked for 40 years at a silk factory and my mother was a shop assistant. We have a big family – nine children, I am the youngest. I studied at an Uzbek school, but I did not manage to
The Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health, together with TB Europe Coalition (TBEC), is launching the #HealthWithoutBorders campaign ahead of World TB Day 2021, celebrated on 24 March. For three weeks, both organizations will publish the personal stories of people affected by tuberculosis who are migrants in either Eastern or in Western Europe, and
In December 2020, Dmitry Poletaev, Director of Migrant Studies Center, published a study named “Health of labor migrants from Eurasian Economic Union in Russia (based on the example of migrants from Kyrgyzstan)”. The document is based on two sociology studies performed by the expert in 2016 and 2017 among labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan. The aim
Sergey Ievkov, founder of “Charitable Hospital”, talks about the need to help migrants’ kids for the future of Russia. It started with my turns in a pediatric department of the observation maternity hospital in Saint Petersburg; this is where migrants and women with HIV end up giving birth, as well as any other person who
Valentina Chupik, executive director of Tong Djahoni, an organization advocating migrants’ rights, explains how volunteers helped migrants to get medical care during the pandemic. Valentina Chupik mentions that about 30 people per year come to Tong Djahoni with the issues related to healthcare. Among those who came to me in 2020, there were migrants with
26 Feb 2021 Most labour migrants in Russia are males, but in recent years the percentage of females has been growing, even among migrants from Central Asia. For a long time, they were not the focus of most studies investigating migrants’ needs and health issues. The study Elizabeth King, Victoria Dudina, and Svetlana Dubrovskaya have
A study on migrants and coronavirus implemented by the Center of Regional and Urban Studies at the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration. The study shows that migrants from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have demonstrated responsible behaviors towards coronavirus more than Russians. In July 2020, a group of scientists from RANEPA (Evgeny