16-01-2012

ECMI publishes Resettlements of Ecological Migrants in Georgia: Recent Developments and Trends in Policy, Implementation and Perceptions

by Justin Lyle, ECMI Working Paper #53

ECMI is pleased to announce publication of Resettlement of Ecological Migrants in Georgia: Recent Developments and Trends in Policy, Implementation and Perceptions, by Justin Lyle, ECMI Working Paper #53. This working paper can be found here. Since the early 1980s, climate change has exacerbated a trend of migration from densely populated mountainous areas in Georgia, chiefly in the Svaneti and Adjara regions, where the livelihoods of the mountain populations have increasingly been threatened by natural disasters. Over the past thirty years, tens of thousands of people have been made homeless as a result of flooding, landslides, and avalanches. However, the needs of so-called ecological migrants, or eco-migrants, i.e., people who have been displaced from their homes due to natural disasters, are a severely neglected issue in Georgia.