Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi, Master’s degree student, Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University, Denmark, is a field research student at the Center for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. Margharita is currently conducting a four-month-long fieldwork on how women’s emigration from Georgia affects their families, who stay behind. There is a growing temporary migration amongst women, many of whom are separated from their families for several years while working abroad. The women’s migration creates new forms of relations and role distributions between the migrant women and their families in Georgia. The fieldwork is seeking to examine the meanings and consequences of the women’s absence on the family members that stay behind in Georgia, as well as the new roles and transnational relations that are formed.  

Via the Center, Data Chigholashvili, who is a student from the School of Humanities as well as the Center co-ordinator, has been attached to the fieldwork research providing assistance and functioning as interpreter during several interviews. At the end of her fieldwork Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi will give a presentation to the students of the School of Humanities, University of Georgia, regarding the fieldwork methodology.