9-10/10/2023 – The Future of the Eurasian Migration System (international conference)
International Conference
The Future of the Eurasian Migration System
October 9/10, 2023
Center for Regional Studies, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81604732904?pwd=sugHykOjzaX4RfJ8xZ8t0qJiVDzKF9.1
Conference number: 816 0473 2904, Access code: 397617
Program (Almaty time)
Monday, October 9
10h00 – Welcome Session
Roza Ibragimovna Razakova, Ablet Kamalov, António Eduardo Mendonça
10h30 – Panel 1: Conceptualizing the Eurasian Migration System – Theoretical, Historical, and Empirical Contributions
Chair – Cynthia Buckley
Irina Ivakhnyuk – The Eurasian Migration System: Recent Trends and Prospects [Keynote – in Russian]
Irina Molodikova – The Eurasian Migration System: Directions of Transformations in a Time of post-Soviet Independence
Yelena Sadovskaya – Migration from Russia to Kazakhstan in the aftermath of Russia’s war in Ukraine and its impact on the Eurasian migration system
Anna Prokhorova – Eurasian migration system through financial integration dimension
12h00 – Coffee break
12h15 – Panel 2: : Emergent Developments: Turkey, a Growing Destination
Chair: Aleksandra Filatova
Stephane de Tapia – The role of Turkey in the definition of a Turkic migration hub, and definitions of new diasporas
Aysem Biriz Karaçay – On the Sphere of the Eurasian Migration System: Reflections from Russians and Ukrainians in İstanbul
Jade Cemre Erciyes and Anastasia Christou – Transformational Potential of Categories in the Eurasian Outmigration: Ukrainian and Russian Migration to Turkey
13h15 – Lunch break
14h30 – Panel 3: The Changing Central Destination: Developments in Russia
Chair – Ablet Kamalov
Salavat Abylkalikov – Demography and migration in Russia in the next decade [in Russian]
Yulia Florinskaya – Labor migrants in Russia: current statistics and future plans [in Russian]
Norio Horie – Migration and food security dilemmas on the eastern borderlands in Russia: Before and after the COVID-19
Aleksey Oshchepkov, Valeriy Yumaguzin and Vladimir Kozlov – From Russia with love: What do we know about emigration from Russia in 2022?
Caress Schenk, Nikita Mishakov, Aleksandr Motin and Yuri Slinko – Uncertainty in theory and lived experience: Russian migrants in the midst of war
Svetlana Tvorogova – In search of a voice: Could we expect an active Russian community abroad?
16h30 – Coffee break
16h45 – Panel 4: The new Russian Emigration
Chair: Caress Schenk
Sergey Ryazantsev – Latin America as a new destinations of post-soviet migrants: new connections in the Eurasian migratory system
Olga Gulina – New Russia´s emigres in Germany
Andrei Korobkov – The New Wave of Elite Emigration from Russia
Florian Muehlfried – Uncanny resonances: Russian citizens and the Georgian intelligentsia
Saltanat Liebert – Fleeing Putin’s Russia: Emigration of Russians to Georgia
Tuesday, October 10
09h30 – Panel 5: Changes and Challenges in Traditional Sending States and Emerging Destination Nodes
Chair: Franck Duvell
Cynthia Buckley – Central Asia’s demographic dividend: age, education, and human capital: perspectives on development and future labour migration patterns in Eurasia [Keynote]
Farkhad Alimukhamedov – Shifting emigration patterns in Central Asian countries
Leila Delovarova – Migration in Eurasia: key trends and coordination patterns through the prism of Kazakhstan
Botagoz Rakisheva – Modern trends in the formation of the Kazakh diaspora: new countries, motives, expectations
Zahide Erdogan – Exploring Uzbekistan’s new development strategy (2022-2026) in terms of migration infrastructure and regional mobility
11h20 – Coffee break
11h35 – Panel 6: Migrant Challenges and Migration Patterns in Central Asia: Impacts
Chair: Farkhad Alimukhamedov
Anastasia Blouchoutzi – The future of labor migration from the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan
Akylbek Tashbulatov – Modern migration challenges for Kyrgyzstan [in Russian]
Abubakr Rakhmonov – Emigration from Tajikistan to the UK against the background of the economic deterioration of Russia
Rano Turaeva – Capitalizing precarity: Central Asian labour in Russia
Vera Peshkova – Strategies and practices for acquiring Russian citizenship by immigrants from Central Asia
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13h15 – Lunch break
14h30 – Panel 7: Is the Eurasian Migration System Expanding, or Fraying? Central Asia: New Origins, New Destinations
Chair: Botagoz Rakisheva
Tatiana Karabchuk – Migration from Post-Soviet Countries to the Arabian Gulf: analysis of ethnographic interviews
Oksana Morgunova – Central Asia-UAE labour migration nexus: short-term benefits and long-term consequences
Mira Kuzhakhmetova – Labor and Educational Migration from Kazakhstan to South Korea
Svetlana Kozhirova – New trends in modern Kazakhstan-Chinese migration processes
Ablet Kamalov – Migration of Uighurs from Xinjiang province of China in the XXI century
16h15 – Coffee break
16h30 – Panel 8: Conflict Migration as a Challenge: Boundaries, Movement and Identities
Chair: António Eduardo Mendonça
Paolo Ruspini – Borders and new conflicts in contemporary migration from Eastern Europe
Marta Jaroszewicz – Contemporary Belarus between Eurasian migration system and individual struggling
Iryna Lapshyna – Ukrainian diaspora’s response to the war in Ukraine. Case of Germany
Milana Nikolko – Diasporas’ collective strategies: Interethnic Collaboration among Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian Diasporic Communities in Canada and Turkey
Franck Duvell: The Russian war against Ukraine: Do we need a post-colonial perspective of migration in the ‘Global East’? [Keynote]