19.08.2009
Russia: Central Asia's female labor migrants grapple with uncertainty On a muggy summer evening, an elderly Kyrgyz woman named Raya sits selling vegetables from a makeshift booth on a street corner in southwestern Moscow. In between haggling with customers over prices, she describes the annual trip she makes from her home city of Jalalabad, in Kyrgyzstan. "I was here for five months last summer," she says, "and I came back in April." She purchases vegetables every morning from a bazaar and sells them on her street corner. "No one else will hire me," she laughs, gesturing at her aged body. 985
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