On December 4, 2020, the Fourth Annual Scientific Workshop: “Illegal Migration from Kazakhstan to South Korea” was held at the site of the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations (KCIR). The organizers of this seminar: the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations (KCIR), the Public Opinion Research Institute, the School of Sciences and Humanities of Nazarbayev University.
Seminar was moderated by: Nailya Almukhamedova, Master of Economics, KCIR.
A welcoming speech was made by Caress Schenk, professor at the School of Sciences and Humanities at Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Botagoz Rakisheva, candidate of sociological sciences, made a presentation of the Report “Illegal migration of Kazakhstanis to South Korea”, prepared under the auspices of the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations (KCIR). The report includes the results of a study of the process of illegal migration from Kazakhstan to South Korea. The author, based on extensive official statistics, the results of sociological research, interviews with illegal labor migrants, marriage migrants and observations, reveals the peculiarities of the formation of labor youth migration, adaptation and integration of migrants in South Korean society. Comments were made by: Herman Kim, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, al-Farabi KazNU (Almaty, Kazakhstan) online, Kim Sangcheol, professor at the Institute of Central Asian Studies, Hankuk University (Seoul, South Korea) online, Caress Schenk, professor at the School of Sciences and Humanities of Nazarbayev University (Nur -Sultan, Kazakhstan), Svetlana Kozhirova, Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of the Center for Asian and Chinese Studies of the International Scientific Complex “Astana” (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) online, Aigul Sadvokassova, Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnopolitical Research, Doctor of Sociological Sciences ( Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan), Nurkhan Zhaliyev, Director of the Information and Analytical Department of the Otandastar Foundation.
