Problematic Integration of Mongolian-Kazakh Return Migrants in Kazakhstan

摘要

An American geographer examines the return migration of ethnic Kazakhs from Mongolia to their ancestral homeland of Kazakhstan, and the adjustment problems confronting them upon return. This specific example of "diasporie return migration" is emblematic of a process affecting nearly every state within the former USSR, and is especially acute in Central Asia. The study, bused on the author's interviews, explores obstacles to the integration of Mongolian-Kazakhs into Kazakhstani society, and raises the question of whether this process might best bo conceptualized as "repatriation" or "patrialion."