July 31, 2008 By Robert Amsterdam

Russia’s Guest Worker Ghettos

La Russophobe emailed us suggesting we take a look at this article from Newizv.ru, which provides an interesting look into a proposal to build designated housing for foreign laborers, and the wider mistreatment and ghettoization of migrant workers. Below is an exclusive translation. ghettoworker073108.jpgGhetto for guest workers The capitoline powers want to solve the housing problems of migrants with methods that are far from humanism NIKOLAI KIREYEV It is entirely possible that there will soon appear in Moscow temporary villages for labor migrants from the CIS countries and the far abroad. They will be designated in first order for housing-and-public-utilities workers. Such a proposal was advanced yesterday by the prefect of the South-Eastern Municipal District, Vladimir Zotov. They are planning to erect dormitories for arrival workers in the districts of Lefortovo, Maryino and Vykhino. If the prefect’s idea receives the support of the capitoline powers, construction will begin as early as next autumn. In the meantime, independent experts have met the bureaucrats’ initiative with bayonets. In their opinion, it could create the soil for inter-nationality conflicts.