Labor migration: New approaches from the Tashkent Forum
On May 18-19, Tashkent served as an important platform for discussing issues related to international labor migration.
The first Tashkent International Migration Forum on the social and legal protection of labor migrants and their family members addressed issues of both regional and international significance.
The event was attended by nearly 600 specialists from Central Asia, Europe, Asia, and the United States.
The forum aimed to develop safe, orderly and legal labor migration.
During discussions involving representatives of governments, international organizations, the private sector, and civil society, the role of migration in the economic and social process was analyzed.
During the event, special attention was paid to the systematic organization of labor migration, the expansion of legal migration pathways, the protection of labor migrants’ rights, the strengthening of their social guarantees, the improvement of vocational and language training, and the adaptation of migrants to the host country’s labor and social environment.
Practical measures were adopted during the conference. In particular, the opening of the INTIL International Center for Language and Vocational Training in Tashkent was viewed as a practical expression of a new approach to labor migration. Such centers contribute to the development of labor migration based on the principle of “training qualified personnel”, rather than the “labor export” model.
Following the forum, the Migration Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan concluded about 20 agreements with major foreign employers. The documents are intended to improve labor mobility mechanisms, making them more transparent, stable, and mutually beneficial.
Dilshod Hakimov, UzA
