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- a new migrant?
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz and his Georgian co-authors consider
Georgia to be a multiethnic country where ther term "ethnic groups" denote
the Abkhazs, the Ossetians (p. 5), the Azeris, the Armenians, the
Russians, the Greeks, the Ukrainians, the Polish, the Kurds, the Yezidis,
the Jews, the Assyrians, the Kists, the Chechens, the Lezghians, the
Udis, the Kabardinians, the Circassians (p. 6), the Svans, the Megrels,
the Laz (p. 7).
Such multiethnic variety of Georgia has been often mentioned 430 .
Also, authoritative international publications contain such inadequate
"evaluations" of linguistic-ethnic situation in Georgia 431
.
Note: in the native country of Tomasz Wicherkiewicz the nations nation
with a state of their own residing within the territory of Poland are considered
to be "national minorities" (for instance, the Germans) while
ethnic groups without a state of their own residing within the territory
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of Poland are considered as ethnic minorities (for instance, Romany) .
Declaration of any country as a multinational state must be carried
out on the basis of objective history of the ethnic groups and the
status assigned by international legal acts; still there is a lot to do in
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Georgia . At this point it must be defined through legal principles
which of the communities belong to national (ethnic) minorities, diasporas
and which are to be considered as new migrants.
It is noteworthy that according to 1989 census, there was not a
single Yezidi person in Georgia, while 18 328 Yezidis are recorded in
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2002 .
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In addition, the following expression is very common: multinational Georgia; for
instance, see: Georgia is a multinational country:
http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/georgia.php?aid=421
431
For critical analysis see: T; Putkaradze, 2008; http://www.scribd.com/doc/8727375/T-
Putkaradze-Kartvelta-Dedaena-Da-Dialeqtebi-2008.
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See: :http://www.usefoundation.org/view/479.
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In this direction academic research has been carried out by Prof. Manana Tabidze
and Prof. Roland Topchishvili (part of which was cited above).
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One part of the Yezidis in Georgia is newly migrated; drastic increase in their number
was caused by the fact that a part of the Kurds that previously identified themselves
as Kurds, were registered as Yezidis in 2002.
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