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 Date: May 2009
Title: Labour migration from Georgia and bilateral migration agreements: Needs and prospects
Authors: Archil Abashidze, Ilia Chavchavadze State University; Mariam Giorgobiani; Pyotr Kazmirkevich
Donor: The paper is published with financial support of the OSI within the project Intergovernmental Agreements on Labor Migration: Policy Research and Recommendations. The opinions it contains are solely those of the author and do not reflect the position of the OSI.
Languages: Georgian, English 
Pages: 16 (Georgian), 16 (English)
© CIPDD
Description
The policy paper deals with one of the most important problems facing the country nowadays, namely the problem of labor migration from Georgia, and analyses prospects of concluding bilateral agreements with western countries. Such agreements can help to avoid many problems related to the mostly illegal status of Georgian labor migrants and improve living and working conditions of many Georgian migrant workers in foreign countries. Alternative solutions to the problems related to such agreements are proposed in the policy paper. Some of these problems are particularly important, namely the lack of reliable data on labor migration from Georgia, the need to authorize a single governmental institution to conduct negotiations, etc. At the same time, some alternative measures are presented, which can increase positive effects of migration processes on the country’s economy and society.
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