With the US elections coming to a close, revolutions propping up in various international regions, and other election cycles running their courses around the globe, it’s safe to say that the youth of the world has never been more politically active. From social media trends to on the ground activism, young people are actively shaping, […]
Month: November 2020
Defining Expectations of Women in Armenia
Perhaps moving forward a better balance between family and work may be reached. This is the concluding sentence from my previous blog and in this entry my focus turns to gender roles and equality in three facets of Armenian society: education, migration and family. These pillars define the place of women and in are in […]
Educational Outcomes for Migrants in Russia: Part II
This post is part two of my exploration into the educational outcomes of migrants and their children. You can find Part One here. I will be looking at this topic in the context of Russia. Are there differences in education attainment and achievement between native and migrant children? If so, what contributes to this? Russia […]
Migration and Education: Part I
In my next few blog posts, I will be exploring the topic of education as it relates to migrants. I aim to answer the questions: do migrants have access to education at the same level as natives? If not, why? I will be attempting to answer these questions in the context of Germany and Russia, […]
What does education look like for South Sudanese kids in the midst of a civil war?
My research looking at the manner in which the South Soudanese displaced people deals with the temporary or semi-permanent displacement through the lens of education. With my next post, I discuss thoughts on returning home now that the state has entered into a tentative peace deal. South Sudan has been engaged in a civil war […]
The Exile and Forced Migrations of the Meskhetian Turks
Before I begin, I would just like to say thank you to all the people who read my last post and left great comments. I hope that I have done an adequate job in exciting you to learn more about the history of the Meskhetian Turks and welcome you to this blog post, in which […]
Portrayal of a woman in the Pamir’s oral history; folk tales, myth and spiritual teachings.
Research on Central Asia suggests that very few have written about women of the remote area of the region that live in the high Mountains of Badakhshan in Tajikistan also known as the Pamirs. Migration from the Badakhshan region to Russia and other parts of the world is prevalent. What I am interested in is […]
The Kolberi Life: Cross-Border Migration and the Struggle for Survival
Kolbers or kolbars are Kurdish laborers who transport goods from Iraqi Kurdistan to the Kurdish region of Iran– what Kurds call the Rojhelat. The average kolber is between the ages of 13 and 65.5 While kolberi used to predominantly be made up of male breadwinners, the practice has recently expanded to include young teenagers. Some […]
Migration, Exile, and Homeland: Koryo Saram, Part I
The Soviet Era often brings talk of the multi-ethnic nature of the Union. Certainly, its vast territorial expanse would encompass the homelands of many indigenous Eurasians. One group that often sits at the periphery of discussions of both the Soviet Union and Eurasia is the Koreans. In 1937, 170,000 of them – nearly the entire […]
Great Retreat: Muslim Migration from the Russian Empire to Turkey
When people think about ethnic minority groups in Turkey, they usually think about the obvious cases—Kurds and Syrians today, Armenians and Greeks in the past. However, the country’s population of 83.4 million encompasses many other smaller groups, including significant groups that came from the Russian Empire during its expansion (World Bank). If one wanted to […]