Round Table Meeting on
MIGRATION FLOWS AND TENDENCIES WITHIN AND FROM BLACK SEA REGION
September 27-28, 2010
Welcome speech
Rusudan Kirvalishvili, Vice-speaker, Parliament of Georgia
Nugzar Tsiklauri, Chairman, Relations with Compatriots Residing Abroad Committee, Parliament of Georgia
Introduction, Presentation of the BSM Program, Objectives of the meeting
Session 1
Facilitation:
Junushaliev Melis, free lance expert, Kirgizstan
Eleni Micha, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Athens, Attorney-at-law, Athens Bar Association, Researcher, KEPAD Human Rights Defense Center, Greece
Presentation of the Research on Migration from Georgia to Greece, conducted within BSM Program,
Guram Svanidze, Leading specialist of the Committee on the Human Rights and Civic Integration, Ph.D, Consultant, TASO Foundation,
Tsisana Goderdzishvili, Researcher, TASO Foundation, implementing partner of PHDS
Session 2
Facilitation:
Valeriu Mosneagu, prof., Head of Political Science Dep. Moldavian State University, Moldova
Policy recommendations for Greece
Ioanna Babassika, Eleni Micha, KEPAD Human Rights Defense Center, Greece
Voluntary return and reintegration
Alexander Yaskorskiy, AWO Bremerhaven, Project Heitmargarten, Germany
Migration process in Kirgizstan
Session 3
Presentation of the Research on Migration of Ukrainians under the conditions of economic-financial crisis. “Ukrainian Greece” Reasons, problems, prospects (conducted within BSM Program)
Inna Shvab, Research Coordinator, LaStrada, Ukraine
O. Malynovska, Doctor of Science in the field of state administration, Research Consultant
International Labor Migration as a Survival Factor
Valeriu Mosneagu, prof., Head of Political Science Dep. Moldavian State University,
Outlook on current migration trends in Georgia as part of the wider Black Sea region
Marc Hulst, Program Coordinator, IOM Tbilisi
Session 4
Labor Challenges in Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
, Zolt Dudas, ILO
Gender
Paradigms
of
Labor
Migration in Georgia
Charita Jashi,
Prof. of Tbilisi State University Economy and Business faculty, leading marketing, gender economic Georgia
Facilitation:
Azad Isazade, National Coordinator of Research, Azerbaijan
Migration Processes in South Caucasus. Results of Sociological Research 2008-2009
Lena Krylova-Mueller, Research Coordinator/international consultant, Switzerland
Azad Isazade, National Coordinator of Research, Azerbaijan
Presentation of Migration Situation in Armenia on basis on specific surveys conducted within last years,
Ruben Yeganyan, Expert of CRRC, Armenia
Struggle against labour exploitation in Azerbaijan
Adile Mammadova, Center for migrants, Azerbaijan
Problems of Reintegration of Returnees in Georgia
Giorgi Nikolaishvili, Georgian Employers’ Association
Session 6
Forced labor as consequence of irregular migration and Human Trafficking. The comparative analysis on an example of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Dmitry Poletaev, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Economic Forecasting Laboratory of Migration Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Russia
Problems in Labor Resources in Republic of Tatarstan
Vladimyr Roskin, President of Center of tolerance “Povoljskiy Mir” Charity Fund, Tatarstan, Russia
New approaches to legislative regulation of labor migration in post-soviet area
Session 7:
Elaboration of Recommendations to be submitted to state bodies in countries of Black Sea region
(Work in small group and group presentations)
