OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ARMENIAN MIGRANTS NOT AWARE OF MIGRATION LAWS
OF ABROAD

YEREVAN, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian representation of the
Czech charity fund “People in Need” jointly with the “Hamaynk ev
Iravunk” (“Community and Right) public organization held a
sociological survey in Yerevan from February 24 to March 10. As Samvel
Mkrtchian, the Chairman of the organization informed at the April 28
event dedicated to presenting of results of the survey, 123 people
participated in the sociological survey. 56.9% of them has no profit,
13% gets very low salary and only 9% gets from 50 thousand to 200
thousand drams (about 444 U.S. dollars). 9.8% of them was in refugees’
camp, 4.9% worked abroad legally, and 7.3% worked in illegal
way. 59.3% of those surveyed decided to stay in the Fatherland, and
40.7% to leave for abroad. 66.7% of participants of the survey is
interested in the migration laws functioning abroad, 19.5% is not
interested in them. S.Mkrtchian mentioned, according to official data,
one migrant falls to the lot of every 10th family in the republic. 147
thousand people left the country in 2002-2005 to find work. According
to him, the overwhelming majority of those leaving the country is not
aware of migration laws of the above-mentioned country. It was also
mentioned that the “People in Need” Armenian representation created
“Hot Line,” which gives free consultation to RA citizens about
migration laws functioning in European countries.