Informational Campaign started with Training Courses for Representatives of Mass Media
27 November – 1 December, 2009
A master class for 18 journalists and on Issue of Irregular Migration was held in Hotel Bazaleti Lake, Georgia. For conduction of the courses were invited 4 experts from Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. Organized for participants from leading national and regional mass media the training was aimed to educate the participants on such issues as journalism and advocacy; how to shoot films on migration issues; communication with migrants and their psycho-social status of labor migrants. International expert – Mrs. Lidia Grafova – a leading Russian journalist, editor of “Russian Migration” magazine (
www.migrant.ru), was invited to conduct the training. Upon completion of her theoretical sessions she gave an assignment to the participants to find a migrant in their community returned from Russia and to conduct an interview with him. The aim of the interview was to reveal why he had left to Russia, what was his goal, did he interact with state authorities, how he characterized his relations with the employer, information on his family, education, future plans, etc. The analysis of the interviews and the lessons learned was conducted together with the participants. The second day of the seminar was devoted to the specifics of films on migrants, conducted by Mr. Gegham Vardanyan
expert-journalist from Armenia and the third day aimed to educate on communication/psycho-social condition of migrants (in country of origin and destination), was conducted by psychologists expert Mr. Azad Isazade
from Azerbaijan and Mr. Levan Shatberashvili from Georgia.
