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CESSI Summer Lecture Series

"At the Crossroads: NGOs Becoming Welfare Providers in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan"

Event Details

Date
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Time
4 p.m.
Description
Sofiya An (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan) will offer some insights into the shifting child welfare landscape in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, focusing on emerging non-state welfare providers. Sofiya An argues that the dialectical interplay between the social and the political in the transnational policy frameworks has shaped the ambiguous and contradictory identities of child-welfare NGOs in post-Soviet Kazakhstan.
Cost
Free & open to the public

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