Abstract
The last couple of years have witnessed an unprecedented rise in ethnic separatism and expansionist policies throughout the former Soviet space, both in the governmental and societal spheres. This culminated in the forced annexation of Crimea and the ongoing military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, which inspired concern about similar scenarios in Kazakhstan. Hearing the same fearful rhetoric once again and looking back on more than two decades of Kazakh nation-building, this paper attempts to evaluate the concepts of “nation,” “ownership,” and “homeland” as legitimizing features for ethnic Kazakh repatriation and their contribution to the national and demographic recovery of Kazakhstan.
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