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EXPERT: ONLY 2 OR 3 PERCENT OF LABOR MIGRANTS FROM ARMENIA COME BACK TO THEIR HOMELAND FOR PERMANENT RESIDING
YEREVAN, October 2. /ARKA/. Gagik Makaryan, chairman of the National
Union of Employers of Armenia, answering Wednesday journalists'
questions at a conference focused on labor migration and the policy
of development of former soviet republics, said only two or three
percent of labor migrants from Armenia come back to their homeland
for permanent residing.
"Remarkable is that even these people are reluctant to return, but
they have to do it for some reasons," he said.
He said that these returned migrants' capacity should be used in
Armenia, since they have obtained new skills abroad. However, their
capacity is not used to its full extent, and this may prompt them to
leave their country for the second time.
Tadevos Avetisyan, chief of the labor ministry's division in charge
of employment, presenting things, said that the ministry is developing
some documents to improve the situation.
Among them, he singled out the concept of migration policy reformation
for 2012-2016, employment strategy for 2013-2018, a new version of
the employment law and amendments to the law on foreigners.
Avetisyan also said that social reforms led to institutional changes
in the social security area, such as introduction of social services
centers in Armenia. These centers will communicate with returned
labor migrants and potential migrants to see how successful their
integration after returning home is and how high prospects for repeated
migration are.
There are five centers in Armenia now, but their
number is planned to be increased to 19 later this
year and to 55 in 2015. .----0---- - See more at:
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YEREVAN, October 2. /ARKA/. Gagik Makaryan, chairman of the National
Union of Employers of Armenia, answering Wednesday journalists'
questions at a conference focused on labor migration and the policy
of development of former soviet republics, said only two or three
percent of labor migrants from Armenia come back to their homeland
for permanent residing.
"Remarkable is that even these people are reluctant to return, but
they have to do it for some reasons," he said.
He said that these returned migrants' capacity should be used in
Armenia, since they have obtained new skills abroad. However, their
capacity is not used to its full extent, and this may prompt them to
leave their country for the second time.
Tadevos Avetisyan, chief of the labor ministry's division in charge
of employment, presenting things, said that the ministry is developing
some documents to improve the situation.
Among them, he singled out the concept of migration policy reformation
for 2012-2016, employment strategy for 2013-2018, a new version of
the employment law and amendments to the law on foreigners.
Avetisyan also said that social reforms led to institutional changes
in the social security area, such as introduction of social services
centers in Armenia. These centers will communicate with returned
labor migrants and potential migrants to see how successful their
integration after returning home is and how high prospects for repeated
migration are.
There are five centers in Armenia now, but their
number is planned to be increased to 19 later this
year and to 55 in 2015. .----0---- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/economy/expert_only_2_or_3_percent_of_labor_migrants_from_ armenia_come_back_to_their_homeland_for_permanent_/#sthash.iPTKbZi8.dpuf