| Summary: | The Master Thesis Russian Migration Policy Development: Immigrationfrom the South Caucasian States to Russia (1992-2002) seeks to analyze the development of the Russian migration policy since the disintegration of the USSR and demonstrate its impact on immigration processes from the South Caucasian States (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) to Russia. It is argued that the Post-Soviet experience in the field of migration could significantly enrich the debate on international migration Most importantly, it clearly shows the false dichotomy between forced and voluntary migration. When forming the migration regime, Russia established a position against ethnic Russians living outside of the Russian Federation as well as former Soviet citizens in an effort to distinguish them from other international migrants. As a result, Russia formed the migration regime on the forced-voluntary model but described all migrations in the Post-Soviet region as forced and presented the above mentioned group with a special forced migration status applicable only to migrants with Russian citizenship. This model violated the principle of international standards by introducing a dichotomy between forced migrants with or without the status of Russian citizenship. This policy was intended to help ethnic Russians to resettle in...
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