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The specialists define three groups of immigrants in Azerbaijan such as ethnic Azeris who resided in other republics of the USSR for a long time (mostly Russia and to a less extent Ukraine), but move to the country most often (Talysh, Lezghins, Avars, etc.), ethnic Azeries, mostly coming from Georgia, and labor immigrants from different countries (Turkey, India, Pakistan, etc.) [6] In 1990s ...
The State Migration Service of Azerbaijan Republic (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Miqrasiya Xidməti) is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulation of activities the sphere of migration taking in consideration issues of national security and stable social-economic and demographic development in Azerbaijan Republic.
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The main directions for Azerbaijan’s state migration policy are: ensuring control over migration processes in Azerbaijan and preventing illegal migration; stimulating Azerbaijani compatriots living abroad to resettle in Azerbaijan and facilitating the return of emigrants, as well as promoting the immigration of qualified specialists and other ...
European ethnicities that immigrated to and lived in Azerbaijan during the 19th and early 20th centuries, following the Russian conquest of the Caucasus and the oil boom in the country brought about by industrialization, included Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Serbs), Germanics (Germans, Austrians, Swedes, Swiss, Dutch, British ()), Greeks, Latins ...
Mass migration of Kurds from Persia and to a lesser degree from the Ottoman Empire [11] into mountainous regions of present-day Azerbaijan continued all throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, until 1920 when Azerbaijan became part of the Soviet Union. The Kurdish population of the South Caucasus was prone to internal immigration.
According to Krista A. Goff, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan SSR Mir Jafar Baghirov and Arutinov worked together to facilitate Azerbaijani relocation. [21]: 77 At the time, the Kura-Aras lowlands in Azerbaijan were sparsely populated, infrastructurally undeveloped, and economically unproductive. Through resettlement of Azerbaijanis in the ...
Azerbaijan has had a deliberate policy of forced assimilation of ethnic minorities since Soviet times (Azerbaijan SSR) and up to the present. Non-Turkic peoples, such as Talyshis, Lezgins, Tats and others have been subjected to forced Azerbaijanization (Turkification). In Soviet period the policy was carried out by: [1] [2] [3] [4]