This thesis explores the experience of being an ethnic returnee, an individual “returning” to the land where their ancestors had once migrated from. Return motivations, post-return experiences, and transnational ...

Keeping nonhuman animals in captivity has a long history, is performed in various forms, and can be viewed from different perspectives. This work concentrates on the contemporary zoological parks most of which represent ...

Since 2012 on May 31, Kazakhstan commemorates the victims of the famine of the 1930s. Though there is a growing body of research on the famine of the 1930s in Kazakhstan both locally and internationally, there is lack ...