The article reviwed the main causes of migration processes in Kazakhstan and their consequences for social systems. Also, in the given article, the author grouped economical, social and politic factors that gave impulse to the moving of population from one place to another, based on the works of domestic and foreign authors describing the migration situation in Kazakhstan and the countries of Central Asia.

Migration processes have had a direct impact on demographic, socio-economic and cultural changes in the country's history.