Tamta Melashvili

Georgian Women in Germany - Empowerment Through Migration?: Empowering Aspects of Female Migration Tamta Melashvili

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.