Like the Circassians and other groups I wrote about in a previous blog post, the Russian campaigns in the Caucasus in the 1800s resulted in over half of the Abkhaz population leaving their historical homeland on the northwest shore of the Black Sea for Turkey, in what Abkhaz historian Stanislav Lakoba called an “ethnic catastrophe” […]
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Sanctions Against and Migration from Iran Part II
This is the continuation of an examination of the effects of recent sanctions against Iran on Iranian migration. In this half I explore more specific circumstances caused by the sanctions that have affected the people of Iran and their decision to leave the country. In November of 2019, thousands of protesters took to the streets […]
The Turkish Experience in the Russian Federation
When we talk about migration to the Russian Federation, the main receiving countries that come to mind are those in Central Asia, but rarely do we think about Russia’s southwestern neighbor, Turkey. Towards the end of the Cold War, Turkey improved their relations with the Soviet Union through trade deals, which allowed Turkish companies to […]