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Living in an ‘enemy land’: the Armenian women working abroad

by Armine Avetisyan

•7 min read

Low pay and high unemployment have led many Armenian women to seek work beyond the country’s borders. Despite fears of trafficking, often abusive working conditions, and a closed border with Turkey, the allure of higher salaries have led thousands to leave Armenia, mainly to Russia and even Turkey — a country many consider an ‘enemy land’. From a hospital to a sock factory Sixty-year-old Anna Hovhannisyan (not her real name) has been working as a nurse for more than three decades in h

Armenia

Unscrupulous employers are taking advantage of desperate Armenian jobseekers

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Faced with staggering unemployment and unscrupulous employers, young people in Armenia, including graduates, are forced to work obscene hours for low (or no) pay to get a foot through the door in the country’s labour market. [Read in Armenian — Հոդվածը հայերեն կարդացեք] Twenty-four-year-old Klavdia Yeghiazaryan recently graduated as a dentist from Yerevan State Medical University. Immediately upon graduating, she began to look for work in her chosen field. Knowing perfectly well the state