The Future of the Eurasian Migration System

International Conference

The Future of the Eurasian Migration System

October 9/10, 2023

Center for Regional Studies, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan - and online

Program

(Almaty time)

Monday, October 9

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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
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
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12h00 - Coffee break
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12h15 - Panel 2: Emergent Developments in the Eurasian Migration System: Turkey, a Growing Destination
Chair: (TBA) 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
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13h15 - Lunch break
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14h30 - Panel 3: The Changing Eurasian Migration System Central Destination: Developments in Russia
Chair - Ablet Kamalov
Sergey Abashin - Транснациональные миграционные процессы в современной России: масштабы и факторы (попытка классификации) [Keynote - in Russian]
Salavat Abylkalikov - Demography and migration in Russia in the next decade [in Russian]
Yulia Florinskaya - Labor migrants in Russia: current statistics and future plans
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
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16h20 - Coffee break
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16h35 - Panel 4: The new Russian Emigration
Chair: Caress Schenk
Svetlana Tvorogova - In search of a voice: Could we expect an active Russian community abroad?
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
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09h30 - Panel 5: Changes and Challenges in Traditional Sending States and Emerging Destination Nodes of the Eurasian Migration System
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
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11h20 - Coffee break
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11h35 - Panel 6: Migrant Challenges and Migration Patterns in Central Asia: Impacts on the Eurasian Migration System
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
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16h10 - Coffee break
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16h25 - Panel 8: Conflict Migration as a Challenge to the European Migration System: 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]

The Zoom links will be mailed one week before the conference.