Aizhamal Muratalieva is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, teaching at the Department of Media and Communication and specializing in ethnic minorities and migration discourse. She is a communication practitioner with a background in Journalism and seven years of experience across both internal and external communications in enterprise companies. She holds her MA in Integrated Communication from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, where she researched migration coverage in the Russian Media and the construction of xenophobic discourse. She is currently working on a thesis that examines the experiences of Central Asian migrants to Russia and the phenomena of ethnic pride. Contact: muratalieva.a@gmail.com