著者

李 眞惠

出版者

立命館大学 アジア・日本研究所

雑誌

立命館アジア・日本研究学術年報 (ISSN:2435421X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.2, pp.41-46, 2021 (Released:2021-07-30)

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Kazakhstan, a country in Central Asia, has not succeeded in securing a stable population of Kazakhs, as a titular ethnic group. With a large Russian population, there was tension within the society. It was only in 1999, after nearly two decades of independence, that the Kazakh population made up the majority in Kazakhstan. Since Kazakhs were Russianized during the Soviet era, they faced a number of problems in responding to the integration of the government based on Kazakh centralism, even though they are a titular ethnic group in post-independent Kazakhstan. Non-Kazakh minority communities, such as Koryo Saram(Korean Diaspora in the former Soviet Union), Germans, and Uyghurs, also face complicated factors in maintaining their ethnic cultures and forming their identities, due to their relationships with their historical homelands and international situations. Their response to Kazakhstan’s integration has also been changing accordingly. The purpose of this report is to examine aspects of multiethnic coexistence in Kazakhstan in terms of both theory and reality, by focusing on minorities, including the Koryo Saram in contemporary Kazakhstan. Specifically, the study adopts three methods: First, it seeks theoretical support for multiracial coexistence in Kazakhstan. Second, it examines the definition of diaspora and Korean diaspora according to the Diaspora Studies. Third, it attempts to understand the relationship between the Koryo Saram and the majority(Kazakhs), and the relationship between the Koryo Saram