Abstract
This research was funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (grant no. IRN AP19679267). Today, Kazakhstan has a comprehensive system for attracting foreign labor force. There is a quota system for skilled foreign labor and labor immigrants and a multi-stage system for issuing work permits. Nevertheless, a number of problems remain in the management of labor migration that need to be addressed: the system for attracting labor migrants to Kazakhstan is not associated with the management of other migration flows; there is no mechanism for determining the demand for skilled foreign labor in regional labor markets; the system of recording the movement of labor migrants and determining the effectiveness of its use is not perfect; there is an outflow of qualified workers from various fields of activity and there is no mechanism for retaining highly qualified specialists in the country; illegal labor migration persists. The study substantiates individual proposals for the formation of a comprehensive mechanism for regulating labor migration. Keywords: migration, labor migrant, employment, social protection, labor market, Kazakhstan.