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MANY EMIGRANTS, MANY WISHING TO EMIGRATE, ARMENIAN OFFICIAL SAYS
Tert.am
10:32 07.09.11
In an interview with the Urvagits (Outline) TV program, Head of the
Migration Service of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan said that the emigration
rate is exaggerated.
No special study of migration has been conducted in Armenia since
2008, he said. As regards the reports on 50 to 60 thousand emigrants
from Armenia, Yeganyan said that passenger traffic cannot serve as
a basis for studying migration as "not every passenger is a migrant."
"They [analysts of the Armenian National Congress] take the passenger
traffic as a basis and claim that 'so many people have left Armenia'.
This June, however, we registered a favorable balance. But let the,
following the same logic, say that so many people have settled down
in Armenia."
Still others use this topic for political purposes, Yeganyan said.
He pointed out the need for serious studies, which are rather
expensive. The government has no funds for that. "In 1992-1994,
we registered an unfavorable balance of 100,000 as compared with 1991.
That was massive emigration indeed. In 2010, were registered 4,000
emigrants as compared with 2009," Yeganyan said.
The number of those wishing to emigrate is increasing year by year.
According to Yeganyan, "emigration is an ethno-psychological phenomenon
typical of Armenians."
On the other hand, prospective emigrants pointed out different
reasons. According to public opinion polls, most of the emigrants
pointed to social conditions, unemployment or low wages. Five to six
per cent of them mentioned injustice and lawlessness.
Tert.am
10:32 07.09.11
In an interview with the Urvagits (Outline) TV program, Head of the
Migration Service of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan said that the emigration
rate is exaggerated.
No special study of migration has been conducted in Armenia since
2008, he said. As regards the reports on 50 to 60 thousand emigrants
from Armenia, Yeganyan said that passenger traffic cannot serve as
a basis for studying migration as "not every passenger is a migrant."
"They [analysts of the Armenian National Congress] take the passenger
traffic as a basis and claim that 'so many people have left Armenia'.
This June, however, we registered a favorable balance. But let the,
following the same logic, say that so many people have settled down
in Armenia."
Still others use this topic for political purposes, Yeganyan said.
He pointed out the need for serious studies, which are rather
expensive. The government has no funds for that. "In 1992-1994,
we registered an unfavorable balance of 100,000 as compared with 1991.
That was massive emigration indeed. In 2010, were registered 4,000
emigrants as compared with 2009," Yeganyan said.
The number of those wishing to emigrate is increasing year by year.
According to Yeganyan, "emigration is an ethno-psychological phenomenon
typical of Armenians."
On the other hand, prospective emigrants pointed out different
reasons. According to public opinion polls, most of the emigrants
pointed to social conditions, unemployment or low wages. Five to six
per cent of them mentioned injustice and lawlessness.