May Armenian President stop migration?

July 4, 2011 - 19:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian people have a psychology of ‘readiness to leave', that is, all think where to go, according to Vardan Devrikyan, Deputy Director of the Institute of Literature.

He said that not migrants’ quantity but the idea itself to leave the county most Armenians have is scaring.

Devrikyan thinks that people are the main treasure of the country, and “Armenia day by day looses its treasure.”

“Even if socio-economic situation of the Armenian people get better without change of that psychology, the situation with migration with still remain the same,” said Deputy Director.

In this context, he noted that the country President may play a determining role in preventing migration in the country. “The President should address people and explain that namely they are the country’s future day,” Devrikyan said.

In his turn, Armenian studies expert Harutyun Marutyan stressed that in Armenia migration underlies not so much socio-economic reasons but lack of protection and confidence sense.

A psychologist Laura Petrosyan said that one of reasons for migration is that an individual does not feel demanded in his country, as well as resistant stresses. “It is necessary to change the psychology of living with the past,” said Petrosyan and illustrated this strive of Armenian people on the Armenian Genocide example, adding that it is good to honor the memory of victims, but for Armenians it becomes a mourning ceremony.

It is known that within January-September 2010, the number of people leaving the country exceeds the number of arriving by 65 thous.