Labour Migration and Covid-19 pandemic: The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Crisis on Tajik and Kyrgyz Migrants' Remittances

• Thesis title in Czech: Migrace pracovních sil a pandemie Covid-19: Sociálně-ekonomické dopady krize na remitence tádžických a kyrgyzských migrantů.
• Thesis title in English: Labour Migration and Covid-19 pandemic: The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Crisis on Tajik and Kyrgyz Migrants' Remittances
• Key words: Migrace, remitence, Střední Asie, Tádžikistán, Kyrgyzstán, Rusko, COVID-19
• English key words: Migration, Remittances, Central Asia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, COVID-19
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2019/2020
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 31.07.2020
• Date of assignment: 31.07.2020
• Date and time of defence: 21.09.2022 09:30
• Venue of defence: Pekařská 16, JPEK112, 112, Malá učebna, 1.patro
• Date of electronic submission: 02.08.2022
• Date of proceeded defence: 21.09.2022
• Opponents: Mgr. Anna Jordanová

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Preliminary scope of work

Práce srovnává roli remitencí migrantů z Tádžikistánu a Kyrgyzstánu pracujících v Ruské federacy. Zaměřuje se především na efekt pandemie COVID-19 na životní podmínky pracovních migrantů a jejich rodin. Obě země byly touto krizí zasaženy velmi podobně. Remitence v obou případech byly používány pro pokrytí běžných výdajů jejich domácností. Ačkoliv je Kyrgyzstán členem Eurasijské ekonomické unie, ukázalo se, že tato skutečnost nepřináší výrazné výhody ve sféře pracovní migrace ve. Celkový makroekonomický dopad pandemie nebyl výrazně odlišný od Tádžikistánu, který není členem unie.

Preliminary scope of work in English

This work compares the role of the remittances sent by the migrant workers from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the Russian Federation. It also examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the living conditions of the migrant workers and their households. Both countries presented to be similarly susceptible to the crisis. The remittances in both cases are applied to cover the general expenses of the migrants' households. Although Kyrgyzstan is a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, the text showed that it brings it a few advantages concerning the labour migration compared to Tajikistan. However, the overall macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 was not sufficiently different, if compared to the outcomes of Tajikistan, which is not an EAEU member state.