Diaspora Returnees, Transfer of Knowledge and a New Understanding of Homeland

Author(s): Anna Harutyunyan
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 29
Pages: 5-7
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Resource Security Institute (RSI), Arlington; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2011

Armenians living in the diaspora often had a picture of Armenia that did not correspond to the reality on the ground. Returning to the real Armenia shatters these images. Now these returnees are transferring their educational and cultural capital to Armenia, seeking to bring real change to a country with a (post-) Soviet heritage and little experience of statehood.

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