Central Asian migrant workers stranded in Russia
Workers have to call on families at home for money, reversing one of the biggest remittance flows in the world
17 August 2020 - 16:09
Moscow — Thousands of migrant workers from Central Asia are stuck in Russia because of travel bans, leading some to rely on money from home in a painful reversal of one of the biggest remittance flows in the world.
“We’re up to our ears in debt,” said Tolib, a 26-year-old unemployed security guard, who was on his fourth unsuccessful attempt at waiting for information outside the Tajik embassy in Moscow’s upmarket Patriarch’s Ponds district. “We have to pay for rent, food and travel, and we have nothing to live on.”..
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