Features of social adaptation of ethnic migrants (repatriates) to the social and cultural environment as a new marginal group in the structure of kazakh society

Abstract

Relevance of the research problem is determined by the fact that the repatria-
tion of ethnic Kazakhs to their historical homeland greatly affect the demographic
structure and social structure of Kazakh society. The process of social adaptation
of ethnic immigrants proceeds differently. The degree of social adaptation process
depends, first of all, the motives, the reasons for the exodus from the country, the
degree of relationship with the local people in the places of settlement and the
desires of the immigrant. After returning to a new location, difficult to adapt to the
external and internal conditions of social reality, which leads to drastic changes in
lifestyle that have occurred to them after their repatriation, as well as experienced
by the material, cultural, psychological, occupational difficulties. All this requires a
focused study of the process of social adaptation of ethnic immigrants to modern
Kazakhstani society in terms of an integrated approach.
The object of the research is ethnic immigrants as a new marginal group of
Kazakh society structures and identify the level of indicators for measuring suc-
cess and entry into a new socio-cultural environment, the subject – the adaptation
of ethnic immigrants. The level of social adaptation was measured by parameters
such as assessment of the economic situation of the family, the assessment of the
material situation, relations with the local population. Accordingly, there is a need
to review all stages of the return of ethnic immigrants to their historic homeland,
the step of forming motives, returnees process of adaptation to the new location as
well as the process of self-identification in Kazakhstan society. Sociological research
methods in the study of the causes of repatriation of compatriots will understand the
underlying motives and factors affecting the desire to immigrate. Accounting for the
motivational structure of the return of ethnic Kazakhs to their historical homeland
increases the number of potential immigrants to immigrate to Kazakhstan.