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Humanitarian sciences in Siberia

2019 year, number

DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE FACTOR OF STABILITY AND UNITY OF THE PEOPLE OF KAZAKHST

S.K. Zhetpysbayev
Assembly of People of Kazakhstan in Pavlodar region, Republic Kazakhstan, 35/1, the 1st May str., Pavlodar, Pavlodar region, 146000, Republic of Kazakhstan
Keywords: демография, этнос, миграция, оралманы, иммиграция, межэтнические отношения, Республика Казахстан, репатрианты, национальность, диаспора, независимость, ethnos, nation, demography, migration, oralman, immigration, national composition, population, interethnic relations, language, culture, people unity

Abstract

The author has consistently and comprehensively studied the indicators and reasons of cardinal population changes in the country in the 1990s, analyzing the current demographic development of Kazakhstan during the period of independence. The article defines the “terms” encountered in the process of studying the demographic situation in the republic. It shows the main stages of Kazakhstan demographic development during the transition period based on statistical indicators synthesis. In theoretical and methodological regard, the study considers the role of an individual as the main participant in the migration process. The author carries out analysis of problems of the history of the Kazakh diaspora and issues of its repatriation to the historical homeland; considers the reasons of migratory processes, adaptation and integration of “oralmans” in the Kazakhstan society in a context of its growing human capital and intellectual potential. It shows their contribution and role in developing language, traditions, customs and culture of the Kazakh people. Nowadays migration is a factor in restoring the demographic balance in the republic. The article investigates and represents factors influencing the population abundance change and growth, the birth rate increase, the economic processes role in the transition period and their effect on socio-demographic processes. It examines the ethnic history in the Kazakh context. The study objective is to trace the history of ethnic groups settlement in the country, to characterize the modern demographic condition of Kazakhstan people taking into account its specifics. The article is of interest as an experience of studying the ethnos migration process (including “oralmans”), which has been formed and transformed during the XX-XXI centuries in Kazakhstan. In the article the interethnic relations viewed through the prism of profound changes in the ethnic composition of Kazakhstan population.