Examples of Guidelines for Expert Interviews

8.2 Examples of Guidelines for Expert Interviews

8.2.1 Guideline for the First of Two Interviews with Ferghana Valley Lawyers without Borders

1. Internal migrants and Propiska

1.1. Can you introduce your NGO? What is your function in the context of propiska?

1.2. How many people do you estimate live in Osh without propiska?

1.3. Are there any statistics about propiska and internal migration in general?

1.4. What kind of people or these? Are most of them internal migrants?

1.5. Which problems do internal migrants face with obtaining the propiska? We heard that most migrants fail to obtain propiska because of the lack of a 1.5. Which problems do internal migrants face with obtaining the propiska? We heard that most migrants fail to obtain propiska because of the lack of a

1.6. What they do if they don’t have an evidence of residence? Are there many faked documents?

1.7. Is corruption a problem?

1.8. Do most internal migrants try to get propiska, or does some of them don’t even try because they don’t expect it will work?

1.9. What’s the legal status of internal migrants without propiska? Can internal migrants without propiska be defined as illegal migrants?

1.10. Do you know if there are any efforts of the government to facilitate the procedure of getting a propiska?

2. Statelessness

2.1. What do you know about people in risk of statelessness (expired passports)?

2.2. What about the propiska of stateless people, for example if they have a USSR which is expired. Do they still have propiska, or does this expires then too?

2.3. How can owners of other countries passports (e.g. Uzbek) obtain a propiska?

2.4. We heard that for IDPs, propiska isn’t a special issue as most of them returned to their place of origin and there they didn’t lose the propiska. Is that also your

experience? Aren’t there IDPs without passports who lived in the countryside and migrated to Osh where they don’t have propiska?

2.5. If stateless IDPs had a propiska before they lost their passport, does that propiska help them to replace their passport? Or do they lose propiska when they are stateless?

2.6. Are there many internal migrants withouth passport (E.g. expired soviet passport)?

2.7. Do you have access to these people at risk of statelessness? Can you help us to contact them for interviews?

8.2.2 Guideline for the Second of Three Interviews with Advocacy Centre for Human Rights

1. Propierties and Propiska

1.1. One group we interviewed lived in a former Datcha settlement, which wasn’t considered as part of the town. Are there many settlements like this?

1.2. Who are these former dormitories belonging to? To the town?

1.3. How is it, when you own land somewhere in a rayon and you take your propiska

1.4. Can people without propiska purchase property?

2. Landplot allocation after 2010

2.1. Land distribution: Can you explain me how land distribution in Kyrgyzstan works? Is all land owned by the state, or is there also private land?

2.2. After the conflict the government promised to give land plots to some people. What are the criteria that someone gets a piece of this land?

2.3. How many people are now on the list of this landplot allocation still waiting? How many will get a piece of land?

2.4. What role does the Propiska plays in this landplot allocation?

2.5. Do people in these new housings automatically get a document which proves the ownership with which they can get a propiska?

2.6. I read that most of these landplots are outside of Osh (Kara-Suu, new Ken Say residential area) and not considered as part of the town. And only houses but no schools and kindergartens were built there. Do these people also have difficulties with sending kids to school if they don’t have a town propiska? Do you have contacts of people living on these allocated land plots?

3. Restored houses after 2010

3.1. What happen with the propiska of displaced people, if their house was destroyed and they obtain a restored house somewhere else? Did they have to change the propiska to the new property? Or was the old propiska still valid, even if that address doesn’t exist anymore?

3.2. Did most of the people with destroyed houses after the conflict have a propiska? What if they didn’t have one? Did they still get a restored house?

3.3. UNHCR told me that there are some people who still couldn’t register their restored houses and so also can’t apply for a propiska. Do you have contacts to people in this situation?

4. Propiska and town planning

4.1. Do you know about this letter that propiska issue should be stopped for a period of time because the town want to build a street there?

4.2. What was the reaction on this letter?

4.3. Was the letter implemented?

4.4. Do you know about cases where houses are planned to be demolished because they are old and because of town planning? Or cases where this already happened? What happens if the person has no propiska?

4.5. Are there many people who own a house and have no propiska?

5. Propiska general

5.1. Since 2011 also people can elect which haven’t propiska. How does that work? How can

be controlled that nobody will elect two times, in Osh and in the place of origin? Is this list applied only for city parliament elections, or also for national elections?

5.2. Since when are the internal passports changed to those ID cards?

5.3. Do you know some cases where a person already deregistered and failed to get a propiska in Osh, and then lost his propiska at all?

5.4. Can you explain me how exactly you collaborate with these migrant communities? How are they organized? How do they know about advocacy centre? How they get your contact?

5.5. Do you have some more interesting contacts? People who have experience in what we now talked about? Do you know people who couldn’t register because of this moratorium?

Personal declaration

I hereby declare that the submitted thesis is the result of my own, independent, work. All external sources are explicitly acknowledged in the thesis.

Darja Aepli