Migration in World Politics

On 6 November 2026 at 9:00 a.m., Aigerim Uskembayeva, a second-year PhD student in the Political Science programme at L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, delivered an open lecture titled “Migration in World Politics” to third-year Political Science students in group B040-3106-24-00 in Room 331. The lecture was part of her teaching practicum for the course “Geopolitics: Theory and Modernity.” Her doctoral supervisor, B. A. Gabdulina, Candidate of Historical Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of International Relations, attended the lecture.

The lecture covered the drivers and main forms of migration, refugee protection, and the role of international organisations in migration governance. Students compared how realism, liberalism, and constructivism explain migration. The lecture also examined labour migration in Central Asia and its significance for Kazakhstan.

Working through a hypothetical case, students discussed how a government could respond to labour market needs, manage its borders, and uphold the rights of people in need of international protection.