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Datablog | Who wants to leave Georgia?

by Elene Ergeshidze

•3 min read

CRRC data suggests that every fifth person was considering leaving Georgia for work in 2023, with men, younger people, people with poorer economic standings, and supporters of the opposition reporting that emigration is a better option than staying in Georgia. Emigration has become a hot topic in everyday discourse in Georgia; the media is rife with stories about people who have decided to leave their jobs and families in search of better opportunities in the West, with many migrants taking si

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Voices of Georgian emigrants — ‘They treated us like dogs’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•9 min read

Since the 1990s, thousands of Georgians have left home in search of opportunities abroad, pushed out by food poverty, debts, unemployment, or to escape violence in the family. Below are stories from three women who braved landmines, hidden containers, and frozen seas in search for a better future in Greece. Leila — four hours in the icy sea ‘I left because of my children. They graduated from secondary school and I didn’t have the means to send them to higher education. Of course, I wa

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Georgia may increase citizenship requirements

by OC Media

•2 min read

People wishing to apply for Georgian citizenship will need to have resided in the country for at least 10 years, up from the current 5, if a new law currently in parliament is passed. The bill, which passed its first hearing in Parliament on Thursday, would also raise the bar for spouses of Georgian citizens, who would have to have resided in Georgia for 5 years, up from 2, to be granted citizenship under a simplified procedure. According to the explanatory note of the bill on Organic Law o