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The problem of any transient begins with a
search of lodging. A migrant who came to work can't stay long
at his acquaintances if he/she has any. Lodging can be different
- leasing price depends on it too. If owners themselves don't
live in the flat and tenants pay regularly there is n need
to often disturb them - this is told by sojourners themselves.
Then confidential relations may form between these and those.
In such tenants may change by groups. For owners only payment
is important. But there are other situations too:
Umed from Badakhshon lives in Russia since 2000, he
enjoys Russian citizenship, room in the hostel, Russian wife
and lovely daughter. He is a monitor among his compatriots,
he can smooth down quarrels, establish order. For three years
he changed several firms, worked as a watchman. His brother
Said having a family in Tajikistan also lives in Peter. In
the course of three years he went home four times. He lives
from land to mouth, now working as a stevedore in a shop,
now a worker on a construction-site. Said lives at a Russian
woman's flat enjoying the right of her alleged husband.
Michael from Dushanbe has a family in Tajikistan, in
Peter he has been living for several years. He rents a room
in a communal flat. The owneress of the room Natalya Vladimirovna
characterizes him as an accurate, polite man. For two years
he doesn't pay more than 700 rubles a month.
Fellows from Khujand, a brigade out of 4 men, they
live on the construction site. Just after arrival they rented
a flat in the suburb of Saint Petersburg but in two weeks
they removed to the construction site. They put it dawn to
frequent checking circuits and fines. In winter they had to
live in a small cold room in an underbuilt house. Boards on
a cement floor served as beds. Later on they had electricity
conducted; a cable being stretched from a watchman's booth.
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