Social Science in the Caucasus

Note: This article first appeared on  the Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. This article was written by Elen...

Note: This article first appeared on the  Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. It was written by Givi Silagadze...

Note: This article first appeared on the Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. It was written by Dustin Gilbreat...

The population of Georgia has declined after the dissolution of Soviet Union from 5.4 million to 3.7 million according to the latest estimat...

A previous CRRC blog post showed how people’s willingness to temporarily emigrate from Armenia and Georgia varied according to their belief...

Scholarship points to a number of factors that contribute to an individual’s willingness to emigrate, either on a temporary or permanent bas...

The UN estimates the number of international migrants worldwide to be on the rise . Academics and policy makers continue to pay considerable...

A recent protest in Tbilisi was a reminder of the importance of studying attitudes towards immigrants in Georgia. A previous blog post dis...

From 2013 to 2016, the OECD Development Centre coordinated a EU-funded project on Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Dev...

According to existing estimates, the stock of internal migrants is much larger than the stock of international migrants worldwide. In Georg...

Unlike emigration, immigration to Georgia is a relatively recent and small in scale phenomenon. The country attracts a diverse group of imm...

The visa liberalisation agreement between Georgia and the EU is expected to enter in force in Summer 2016, allowing Georgian citizens holdi...

Although many literature lovers take their favorite novels’ quotes for granted, a hybrid literature lover and social scientist cannot resis...

As discussed in a recent blog post , household incomes in Georgia have risen steadily since 2008. The percentage of Georgians who have famil...

Armenia's announcement in September that it would enter the Eurasian Customs Union led to some dissatisfaction regarding relations w...

Last week the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, presented the Georgian government with a Visa Liberalization Plan betw...

For the last few months, CRRC Armenia has been doing a survey for the European Training Foundation (ETF).  This is a major undertaking, with...

In a recent article in Post-Communist Economies, Zvezda Dermendzhieva uses Caucasus Barometer data to compare labour migration from the Sout...

Last year, Ani Navasardyan asked, “ Why do so many Armenians leave Armenia? ” Migration is also an issue in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Data fro...