Migrant misery: Tajik workers claim enslavement on Russian farm
In Russia’s remote Magadan region, Tajik migrants have reported being forced to work under slave-like conditions on a cattle farm.
A group of 10, tricked by a promise of well-paid jobs, now find themselves without pay and stripped of their passports by their employer, who allegedly refuses to return them.
These migrants, including two with valid work permits, are nearing the end of their 90-day visa-free stay in Russia.
Their situation highlights wider vulnerabilities of Central Asian migrants in Russia.
The migrants told media outlets the farm owner took their passports when they arrived.
At least 1 million Tajik migrants work in Russia, many of them in physically demanding jobs in factories, construction sites, and the agriculture sector.
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