THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN RUSSIA: INTEGRATION VS REPATRIATION

Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2024     |     PP. 133-147      |     PDF (275 K)    |     Pub. Date: April 9, 2024
DOI: 10.54647/sociology841278    32 Downloads     19987 Views  

Author(s)

POGOSYAN Gevork Aramovich, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Scientific Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Armenian Sociological Association, Yerevan, Armenia;
OSADCHAYA Galina Ivanovna, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department for the Study of Socio-Demographic Processes in the EAEU, Institute of Demographic Studies, FNISC RAS, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract
The current state of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia testifies to the presence in it of some divergent tendencies: on the one hand, this is the historically inherent desire of the Armenian Diaspora to thoroughly integrate into the social and economic life of Russia; and on the other hand, this is a certain orientations for repatriation to the homeland in the context of current western sanctions against Russia and a special military operation in Ukraine. In order to study the degree of integration of the Armenian Diaspora in to Russian society and identify a potential repatriation resource among the Armenian migrants, a comparative sociological survey was conducted in Russia and in Armenia.
In the Russian Federation, the sociological survey among the Armenian migrants was conducted by the scientists of the Institute of Demographic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the most Armenian-populated communities in Moscow, and in the Stavropol and Krasnodar regions. In Armenia, the sociological survey among the migrant families was conducted by the scientists of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia in the several cities of the republic.
The main results of comparative sociological surveys conducted within the framework of the joint academic project are presented in this article in the form of a predictive analysis of the current situation.

Keywords
integration, repatriation, diaspora, sociological research.

Cite this paper
POGOSYAN Gevork Aramovich, OSADCHAYA Galina Ivanovna, THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN RUSSIA: INTEGRATION VS REPATRIATION , SCIREA Journal of Sociology. Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2024 | PP. 133-147. 10.54647/sociology841278

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