Kazakhstan’s state diaspora policy aims to regulate issues in the field of repatriation of ethnic Kazakhs to Kazakhstan and support for compatriots living abroad.

During the years of independence a number of legal documents have been adopted and implemented in this area, including the State programmes to support compatriots living abroad in 1996 and 2005-2007, as well as plans for their implementation, the «Nurly kosh» programme (Kazakh: Нұрлы көш) for 2009-2011, The Concept of Migration Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2017-2021.

In order to put diaspora policy into practice, the Action Plan for the Support of Ethnic Kazakhs for 2018-2021 was adopted. However, Kazakhstan does not have a separate law regulating diaspora policy.

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