240 Uzbek citizens detained on Kazakh-Uzbek border
By Aynur Jafarova
Kazakhstan has detained around 240 Uzbek citizens on the Kazakh-Uzbek border who violated the rules of residence in Kazakhstan.
The news was announced by the border service of the Kazakh National Security Committee on November 5.
"Around 240 Uzbek citizens were detained by the Saryagash frontier group within 24 hours. Among them are migrant workers and those refusing to leave the country on time," the border service said.
The police were notified about the detention. The detainees will be brought under administrative responsibility.
Kazakhstan reports an increasing scale of illegal immigration, the number of which reachea 300,000 annually.
The labor market of Kazakhstan is attractive for migrants from neighboring Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Russia. Some 174,000 migrant laborers came to Kazakhstan in 2013, and 128,000 of them are the citizens of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The Kazakh Labor Ministry has forecasted that migrants inflow to Kazakhstan will hit 500,000 in 2015.
Experts believe migrants' flow to Kazakhstan is mainly due to the country's economic growth which is higher than that of other Central Asian countries.
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