On November 22, 2019, Nazarbayev University hosted the Third Annual Scientific Seminar organized by the School of Sciences and Humanities of Nazarbayev University, Nazarbayev University Library and Public Opinion Research Institute. The main speaker in the panel discussion was Migration Specialist António Mendonça with the topic “Migrants from Central Asia in Western Europe: Number, Mobility, Profiles, Identity”. Other speakers were: Botagoz Rakisheva (Public Opinion Research Institute), Caress Schenk (Nazarbayev University) and Darina Sadvokassova (Nazarbayev University). In the second part of the event, an employee of the City University of Dublin, Abel Polese, a scientist, development specialist, amateur musician, author of fifteen books and more than 100 peer-reviewed chapters and articles, spoke. Abel Polese presented his new book “The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival”.