In this memo I compare Soviet and post-Soviet migration from Nagorno Karabakh, describe how people migrated and for what reasons, and analyze the pressures people from the region faced after the collapse of the USSR. The findings stem from research I conducted in the town of Martuni, a small district center in Nagorno Karabakh, with a population of approximately 5,000. Additionally, I interviewed economic migrants from the region who now reside in Moscow and other large Russian cities, such as Krasnodar. […]
Memo #:
38
Series:
2
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/pepm_038.pdf
Research Fellow
Affiliation
Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia
Expertise
Ethnographic Method, Economic Anthropology, Gender Studies, Russia, Caucasus, Migration
