Proceedings of the 5th seminar held by “Memorial” Human Rights Center

on December 3-5, 1998 under the program “Migration and Law,” “Deployment of a network for legal consultations to refugees

and forced migrants in Russia” being carried out with financing

from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and

TACIS Democratic Program

Valent

Moscow

2000

Edited by

I.A. Zolotarevskaya, S.A. Gannushkina, M.Ye. Petrosjan

Program Director S.A. Gannushkina

ISBN 5–85677–155–9

© Memorial Human Rights Center, 2000

Contents

S. Gannushkina. Opening speech

Theme: Forced migrants and Russian citizenship, legal aspects and problems

V. Gaidash. Situation with the granting of citizenship to Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar Krai

A. Osipov. On the problem of Meskhetian Turks

K. Eliseev. Legal aspects of Russian citizenship acquisition by migrants

A. Walmsley. A review of the legislation on nationality and naturalisation of refugees in foreign countries

Theme: Legal problems related to job placement of refugees and forced migrants

R. Hoffman. Employment and labor rights of migrants

Ye. Burtina. On the violation of the labor rights of refugees and forced migrants

V. Perepechko. On the order of foreign workforce employment in the Russian Federation

A. Kudryavtsev. On the work of the Federal State Employment

Service towards job placement of refugees and foreign migrants

Ye. Kudryavtsev. On the activity of Russian “Compatriots” Foundation

towards job placement of refugees and forced migrants

S. Tarasevich. Possibilities for assistance in job placement of forced

migrants in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region

V. Mironov. Legal problems of migrants’ job placement

“Round table” of seminar participants

R. Bugler. About our partner

A. Lesnyakova. On the regional bills promotion by non-governmental

organizations

S. Gannushkina. On the activity of central-Russia and Moscow Centers on assistance to realization of forced migrants rights in 1998

L. Naumova (Volgograd), S. Dubinina, O. Sozinov (Rostov-on-Don), I. Nekrasova (Ekaterinburg), N. Efremova (Penza), I. Fedotova (Saratov). On the activity of regional centers