Medina Aitieva

Medina Aitieva is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she is conducting research on transnational family systems among Kyrgyz migrant workers in Siberia.

Work permits: creating a documented self in Russia

The life of a migrant worker is never easy. The upheavals of the past 20 years in the former USSR have resulted in waves of Central Asians going to Russia to find work. To judge by their tales, the bureaucracy is finding it very hard to cope. Medina Aitieva spent some time with migrants in Siberia

By Medina Aitieva

/ 19 Sep 2012