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Social Precarization in Post-Soviet Countries: Common Features and Differences

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Social precarization develops under the influence of objective reasons of digitalization and globalization of economies in various countries. At the same time, it has a specific character of its manifestation in each country, conditioned by cultural, historical, religious, economic, political and other peculiarities of states. The article presents a corporate analysis of the forms of social precarization in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan. Based on the conducted social research, a difference in the dynamic pattern of the precarization processes in Russia and Kazakhstan has been found. A conclusion has been drawn about the greater intensity of social precarization in Russia compared to Kazakhstan.

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    Oralmans are ethnic repatriated Kazakhs who migrate to Kazakhstan from neighboring countries (Uzbekistan, China, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan) and a number of other Asian countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.).

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    Paternalism as an element of the mindset of the population has been preserved since the Soviet times when the socialist state cared for its citizens like a “caring father.”

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Mramornova, O.V., Ivanova, N.A., Sokolova, O.Y., Musaeva, A.Z., Abutalimova, S.S. (2019). Social Precarization in Post-Soviet Countries: Common Features and Differences. In: Popkova, E. (eds) The Future of the Global Financial System: Downfall or Harmony. ISC 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00102-5_54

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