Regional Population Change in Kazakhstan during the 1990s and the Impact of Nationality Population Patterns: Results from the Recent Census of Kazakhstan

The migration response to economic shock: lessons from Kazakhstan

“…12 Many authors, including Zaionchkovskaya (1994) and Shuljga (2002), identify this ethnic partitioning. Rowland (2001) documents the much higher rates of ethnic Russian and Ukrainian population decline in predominately ethnic Kazakh regions of south and western Kazakhstan and also finds that indices of ethnic population concentration rose for all of the largest four ethnicities, especially for Ukrainians and Germans. Savin and Alekseenko (1998) discuss emigration from South Kazakhstan oblast, which has a very small Russian population and one of the highest Russian emigration rates.…”

“…In the 1999 census, rural Kazakhstan was 66.5% ethnically Kazakh and only 15.7% ethnically Russian, while urban Kazakhstan was 43.2% ethnically Kazakh and 41.1% ethnically Russian(Rowland, 2001).…”

Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia

“…Turning to migration within the former Soviet Union, there have been several studies of inter-regional migration in Russia (Andrienko & Guriev, 2004;Fidrmuc, 2004;Heleniak, 1999;Rowland, 2001;Zaionchkovskaya, 1996); to our knowledge, only Aldashev and Dietz (2012) examine inter-regional migration in Kazakhstan. The most rigorous, Andrienko and Guriev, finds standard push-pull and distance effects on migration flows; they also find that lack of financial resources constrains outmigration.…”

Battlefields of Ethnic Symbols. Public Space and Post-Soviet Identity Formation from a Minority Perspective

“…During Soviet times, the northern part of the Kazakh Soviet Republic was predominantly inhabited by Russians and Germans while ethnic Kazakhs formed the majority in southern regions. Since independence, three factors have contributed to Kazakhs becoming the majority population in the northern part of the country: the emigration of minorities, a significantly higher natural population growth among Kazakhs, and resettlement policies leading to migration of Kazakhs into the north of the country from the south as well as from abroad, for instance from Mongolia (Rowland 2001;Kolstø 2000). Accordingly, the rebuilding and changing of cities has been especially strong in the northern part of the country.…”