Paul Goble
Staunton, June 8 – The Duma has now completed passage of a bill that takes the regulation of migrant workers away from the ministry of labor and gives it to the interior ministry, a step that seems set both to further centralize control in the hands of the police and to limit the crazy quilt of regulations which now vary from region to region.
The measure makes two important changes that justify that conclusion. It gives the interior ministry rather than the labor ministry the power to define the list of professions migrants may fill; and it specifies that Moscow can now give migrant workers with permission in one place to exercise that right in others (nazaccent.ru/content/45671-professii-dlya-migrantov-teper-budet-vybirat-mvd-rossii/).
If the measure is signed into law and there is every reason to believe it will be as it was pushed by the ruling United Russia Party, that will expand the role of Moscow and the police in regulating immigrant labor and thus allow the center to rewrite regulations in regions that the central government judges to be at odds with its interests.
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