Armenia, Caucaso, Asia Centrale
Armenia, Caucaso, Asia Centrale

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it
ISBN (print)
978-88-6969-280-2
ISBN (ebook)
978-88-6969-279-6
e-ISSN
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Date of publication
15 Nov 2018
Eurasiatica
Collective Action and Political Mobilisation of Georgian IDPs in Response to Changing Housing Policies
Laura Luciani
Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
lau.luc@hotmail.it
DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-279-6/008
Submitted 21 May 2018
Accepted 12 Jul 2018
Abstract
This article studies collective action and political mobilisation of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs). It focuses on IDPs’ responses to a controversial housing policy implemented as of 2010 by the Georgian government, which mandated resettlement of IDPs from collective centres to private accommodations. Building on relative deprivation theories, the article pinpoints and analyses four types of responses shown by IDPs in the aftermath of resettlement. Finally, it provides an assessment of the obstacles faced by IDPs’ in their collective and political action, and recommendations for policy developments. This exploratory study is based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews conducted in Tbilisi among IDPs from Abkhazia.
Keywords
Internally displaced persons. Collective action. Housing. Political mobilisation. Human rights. Georgia.
