The collective monograph contains the results of an empirical project conducted in Armenia and
Georgia as well as in Moscow (as the favourite destination of migrants from the South Caucasus)
from 2008 to 2010. The book is the first contribution to comparative research in the
migration-intense post-Soviet space and covers the complete cycle before during and after
migration. The survey focused on such relevant issues as national migration profiles including
age and gender composition brain drain and brain waste return potentials remittances child
separation migration perception and personal experiences in Moscow and other destinations. As
results the field studies confirm the international trend of feminization in migration and a
high awareness of the ambivalent nature of migration among two cohorts of migrants from Armenia
and Georgia in Moscow and six cohorts of returnees in the respective countries of origin.
