Kazakhstan Emigration and Immigration
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Finding the Town of Origin in Kazakhstan[edit | edit source]
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Kazakhstan, see Kazakhstan Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Kazakhstan Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.
Immigration into Kazakhstan[edit | edit source]
- In the 19th century, the Russian Empire began to expand its influence into Central Asia.
- The Russian Empire introduced a system of administration and built military garrisons and barracks in its effort to establish a presence in Central Asia in the so-called "Great Game" for dominance in the area against the British Empire, which was extending its influence from the south in India and Southeast Asia.
- From the 1890s onward, ever-larger numbers of settlers from the Russian Empire began colonizing the territory of present-day Kazakhstan, in particular, the province of Semirechye.
- The number of settlers rose still further once the Trans-Aral Railway from Orenburg to Tashkent was completed in 1906. A specially created Migration Department in St. Petersburg oversaw and encouraged the migration to expand Russian influence in the area. During the 19th century, about 400,000 Russians immigrated to Kazakhstan, and about one million Slavs, Germans, Jews, and others immigrated to the region during the first third of the 20th century.
- In 1936, the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (whose territory by then corresponded to that of modern Kazakhstan) was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The republic was one of the destinations for exiled and convicted persons, as well as for mass resettlements, or deportations by the USSR, such as approximately 400,000 Volga Germans, and then later the Greeks and Crimean Tatars.
- Deportees and prisoners were interned in some of the biggest Soviet labour camps (the Gulag), including ALZhIR camp outside Astana, which was reserved for the wives of men considered "enemies of the people".[1]
Emigration From Kazakhstan[edit | edit source]
Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]
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One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below. |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Kazakhstan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan, accessed 23 July 2023.