Native of Kyrgyzstan Andrei B. has been held in a foreign national detention center twice – his is one of the many cases of stateless people being repeatedly deemed “violators of migration laws” and deprived of liberty for extended periods, even…
Оn June 17, 2021, the COVID-19 Emergency Statelessness Fund (CESF) Consortium – an initiative of the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) – published a report on the impact of COVID-19 on stateless people around the world. It is noted…
After the president issued orders regulating the status of foreign nationals during the pandemic, Russia’s Federal Bailiffs Service (FBS) took steps last summer and fall to expel many foreign nationals being held in Centers for Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals…
Did you fall in a hole?/I did./Are you sitting in a hole?/I am./ Are you waiting for a ladder?/I am./Is the hole damp?/It is./ How’s your head?/Whole./So you’re alive?/I am./Well, off I go, then! Oleg Grigoryev Centers for the Temporary…
On International Migrants Day, 18 December, it is important to highlight the problems which foreigners faced in Russia during the pandemic in 2020. They include not only loss of income and difficulties with a return to the homeland, but also…
The coronovirus pandemic worsened the situation of many vulnerable groups, but it hit migrant workers especially hard. Thousands lost their jobs and housing were unable to return home and were forced to survive in tent camps, and some were imprisoned indefinitely in deportation centers (FNDC).
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