
CHAIR
Marat Iliyasov
(College of the Holy Cross, US)
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PAPERS
Maryam Sugaipova
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
“Some Survived, and Some Didn’t”:
Processes of Adaptation of Chechens in the Qyzylorda Region of
Kazakhstan between 1944 and 1957
Ekaterine Pirtskhalava
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
Ina Shanava
(Gori State U, Georgia)
Lifestyle Changes of Deported Muslim Meskhetian in Georgia
and the United States
Polina Vlasenko
(U of Oxford, UK)
polina.vlasenko@compas.ox.ac.uk
Mediating Reproductive Labor:
Migration Infrastructures and Central Asian Surrogates in Georgia
Valentina Chabert
(Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
The Right to Return in International Law:
Lessons from the South Caucasus
Medea Badashvili
(Tbilisi State, Georgia)
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine :
Human Cost, Refugee Crisis and Migration Challenges
Evgeny Romanovskiy
(Charles U, Czechia)
Europe in the Caucasus, the Caucasus in Europe:
How Europeanisation is Changing Local Communities and
how Local Communities are Changing Europe
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DISCUSSANT
Diego Benning Wang
(Princeton U, US)