The workshop aims at understanding the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration from the Central Asian region to different destinations regionally and globally and imagining its possible futures. It will bring together leading scholars from Australia, Central Asia, Japan and Sweden for an intense discussion and debate, the first event of its kind in the Asia-Pacific.

Sponsored by:

Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies (CAIS) at the Australian National University; the Central Eurasian Research Unit (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Special Program for Central Eurasia (University of Tsukuba, Japan); the Nippon Foundation Central Asia-Japan Human Resource Development Project (NipCA Project, Japan); MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective (University of Lund, Sweden) and Global Asian Studies Program, IASA, University of Tokyo.

Conveners:

A/Prof Kirill Nourzhanov (CAIS)

Prof Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba)