20.02.2024 Call for participation "Summer School Caucasus Conflict Culture 2024"

Dear all,

we are pleased to invite you to participate in this year's summer school Caucasus Conflict Culture on the topic of "Socio-economic effects of Ukraine war-related migration in the South Caucasus". 

The geopolitical shifts and consequences of the war over Nagorno-Karabakh and the war in Ukraine have triggered many other problems in the South Caucasus. The region is now experiencing numerous political, demographic and socio-economic upheavals, including a huge wave of migration since the beginning of the war with Ukraine. Its impact on the social and economic situation of the South Caucasus countries is controversial: On the one hand, host countries have benefited from migrants in terms of capital inflows and brain gain. However, migration has also resulted in political and security concerns, as well as limited institutional and infrastructural capacity to absorb the significant numbers of migrants. Moreover, it has severely affected local communities by increasing the prices of goods and services. This is leading to increased overt and covert tensions between host societies and migrants. Against this background, the project aims to explore how war-related migration has affected the region: How does it shape everyday interactions between local and migrant populations? What are the experiences of different migrant communities? How is migration and its social and economic impact perceived by host societies? What tensions and conflicts arise from migration and how are they managed? What frictions exist between and within migrant communities? How does war-related migration affect pre-existing tensions between Russia and Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan?

The current student research project examines the impact and consequences of war-related migration in the South Caucasus since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each group of students selects and researches a topic related to this migration and its impact on everyday socio-cultural and economic changes in local communities in Georgia. Students will be introduced to the practice of fieldwork, anthropological methodology and the organisation and conduct of a research project. A key aim of the project is to bring together students from the conflict regions of the South Caucasus and Germany and to give them the experience of working together in multinational teams.

This offer is primarily addressed to students of the MA programmes Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung or Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg. There will be an information meeting for all applicants on 06.03.2024 from 4-6 pm.

The application deadline is the 10.03.2024.

You can find the complete invitation to participate here.

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