“Kyrgyz Clinics” in Moscow: Medical Centers for Central Asian Migrants

Social isolation limits migrants' access to health care, providing the context for the emergence of migrants' own medical infrastructure. In this article, we explore the so-called Kyrgyz clinics, private medical centers in Moscow founded by doctors from Kyrgyzstan and targeted specifically for labor migrants from Central Asian countries, particularly Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. These Kyrgyz clinics both provide affordable medical services and enable migrant doctors to guide migrant patients through Russia's medical infrastructure, in the context of limited resources, lack of health insurance, low awareness of available services, and other barriers to care.