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This book is devoted to one of the most acute problems of Kazakh history and ethnography concerning Central Asian kinsmen. The author focused on research of Kazakh "diaspora" and "irredentism" issues in context of historical development on the territory of Central Asia namely cultural and ethnic features differing Kazakhs from their kinsmen in the researched region. This book can be interesting to the scholars, PhD students and all specialists in ethnology.

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Kalshabaeva Bibiziya was born June 4, 1960. She worked at al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan. She researches the problems of Central Asia Kazakh Diaspora,ethnic and ethnocultural processes at Kazakhstan. She has more 100 scientific articles, monographs and books.

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