The research, currently underway, will be a detailed survey focused on migration from Georgia and Ukraine into Greece, as well as on interviews with illegal and legal labor migrants in Greece and the returnees. It will include data collection and analysis of

• migration flows and migration routes, the root causes of migration and migrants motivation in    Greece, Georgia and Ukraine,
• return to Georgia and Ukraine, social profiles of returnees, reintegration patterns, sustainability,
• issues related to the field of human trafficking.

 

The main research components, the methodology, as well as the concept and approaches were defined at the seminar in Shekvetili, Georgia on July 11-12, 2009 with participation of all the program partners.

The methodology include semi-structured expert interviews, semi-structured interviews with migrants, selection of Case Studies (individual stories) most reflective of the problems faced by the migrants interviewed. The field research is being implemented by TASO Women’s and Memory Research Centre which won the tender announced in August 2009. By now have been already conducted around 80 face-to face expert interviews both in Georgia and Greece. All interviews are audio recorded, transcribed, codified and submitted to qualitative and quantitative analysis.