Socio-economic aspects of potential migrants of the mountainous region of Adjaria

Abstract

Maintenance of the optimum quantity of population in mountainous regions of the world and management of migration processes are among urgent matters. The problem is so difficult that it requires a complex study and foresees regional originalities. Therefore, the main objective of the research is to study the aims and factors involving potential migrants in possible migration processes, based on the example of Georgia, in particular on the example of the mountainous region of Adjaria. The research was mainly based on sociological questioning and an in-depth interview method, by which a comparison of surveys conducted in the Soviet period and in independent Georgia as well as a comparison of quantitative and qualitative properties of migration processes were performed. As a result of the research, it was concluded that main reasons causing potential migration processes in the modern period are not social, but economic and ecological factors. Besides, in different social groups, geographical originalities of trends of expected migration processes were found. Therefore, events managing the expected migration processes are set, which would bear huge importance for working out the country’s migration policy and efficiently fulfilling municipal programs.

Territorial organisation’s originalities of the population of Ajara

“…This topic becomes even more urgent in mountainous Ajara, the environment of which is known for its lower sustainability. Therefore, as a result of rational natural management, geodynamic processes are held more or less in every village, but up to 35 villages are located in the zone with a high level of threat from natural, geological processes [7]. Coming out of this topic, attention should be given to the population's rational territorial location, and business activity should be held by maintaining the basic principles of rational natural management.…”