Georgian Women in Germany - Empowerment through Migration?

The research focuses on young Georgian women's
migration experience to Germany. Specifically, its
aim is to discover whether young Georgian migrant
women feel themselves empowered as a result of
migration and if so, what they see as the
constitutive elements of the empowerment. The study
is placed into a theoretical framework of the
integrative approach to feminized migration which
has multiple levels of analyisis: the state(macro),
individual (micro) and society (meso) levels in both
migrant sending and receiving countries.

The research showed that young Georgian women's
opportunities to have access to a higher western
type education in Germany, the possibility to lead
an independent life, to have a stable income, to
finance their studies and organize their lives were
percieved as empowering aspects of migration.

Autorentext
Tamta Melashvili was born in 1979, Ambroluari, Georgia. After completing her secondary education she moved to Tbilisi, the capital. A couple of years ago she lived in Germany as a migrant. In 2008 she was granted MA degree in Gender Studies at Central European University. Currently she lives in Georgia.

Klappentext
The research focuses on young Georgian women's migration experience to Germany. Specifically, its aim is to discover whether young Georgian migrant women feel themselves empowered as a result of migration and if so, what they see as the constitutive elements of the empowerment. The study is placed into a theoretical framework of the integrative approach to feminized migration which has multiple levels of analyisis: the state(macro), individual (micro) and society (meso) levels in both migrant sending and receiving countries. The research showed that young Georgian women's opportunities to have access to a higher western type education in Germany, the possibility to lead an independent life, to have a stable income, to finance their studies and organize their lives were percieved as empowering aspects of migration.