Database of publications / LABOR MIGRATION AND ITS POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES FOR CENTRAL ASIA, (By Kursad Aslan, 16/04/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst).

Central Asia was a place of forced exile during the Soviet Era. Now, labor migrants are moving by their free choice to earn their livelihoods. While Kazakhstan is a major recipient, migrants from the poor neighboring countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan seek livelihoods on construction sites, tobacco and cotton fields there and in Russia. The reintegration of Central Asia with the world after the Soviet Union creates a new structure in the region's political economy; and this is the forerunner of the further change in all aspects of societies and social life in the region.

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