Professor Markus Kaiser studies migration in modern Europe and Asia, as well as various cultural, social, and economic processes in multicultural societies. He is the author of several publications in these and related fields, including the monograph “Eurasia in the Making: Revival of the Silk Road. A Study on Cross-border Trade and Markets in Contemporary Uzbekistan” (Bielefeld University, 1999).
He has conducted field research in Thailand, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia. He has worked and taught at the University of Bielefeld, the German-Kazakh University (Almaty), the University of Trier, the Prince of Songkla University (Pattani), and St. Petersburg State University. He has acted as director at the DAAD Center for German and European Studies. He is currently a professor at the American University of Central Asia, and a researcher at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.
