WUNRN
TAJIKISTAN - HUSBANDS' MIGRATION -
WOMEN LEFT BEHIND - REPORT
OSCE - Organization for Security
& Co-operation in Europe
ODIHR - OSCE Office for Democratic
Institutions & Human Rights
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC
INCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM MIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS IN TAJIKISTAN
Direct Link to Full 55-Page 2012
Report:
Since 2000, the number of
Tajik men emigrating abroad in search of work has steadily increased, with over
700,000 leaving their families behind in 2010 alone, usually for a prolonged
period of time. While some migrants continue to provide financial and emotional
support to their wives, children and other relatives by sending remittances and
visiting home, others either do not find it possible or deliberately choose to
establish new families and invest their resources elsewhere. As a result,
Tajikistan faces the challenge of reintegrating abandoned wives of labour migrants
into the socio-economic life of the society.
This assessment report,
which is produced in the framework of ODIHR’s 2012 project “Social and economic
inclusion of women from migrant households in Tajikistan,” builds on the 2009
baseline study “Abandoned Wives of Tajik labor migrants,” conducted by the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Tajikistan. It
provides an updated synopsis of the socio-economic challenges faced by women
from migrant households through a comparative perspective across four
geographical regions and three groups of respondents, as well as an outline of
the legislative, policy and institutional framework with a specific focus on
gender aspects. Finally, it proposes a number of recommendations to national
and local government authorities on how policy, institutional and legislative
frameworks to support abandoned women from migrant households can be further
strengthened.