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Tom Trier is a Danish social anthropologist (cand.scient.anth.), author, and diplomat whose work focuses on inter-ethnic relations and minority issues in the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe. He has been a Senior Research Associate with the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) and served as the Centre’s regional director in the Caucasus, publishing widely on Abkhazia and the Meskhetian (Ahıska) Turks.[1] As of 2024 he is listed as Head of Office/Political Adviser at the Office of the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, based in Tbilisi. [2]

Trier has worked with ECMI in various capacities, including Head of Programmes (2003), Deputy Director (2004), and, from 2005 to 2012, as Regional Representative/Director in the Caucasus, where he engaged with Georgian authorities and civil society on minority and integration policy.[3] His research and advisory work has addressed the politics of ethnicity and displacement in Georgia and its breakaway regions, with notable studies on Abkhazia and on the repatriation and integration dilemmas facing the deported Meskhetians. He has also written on Rusyn identity and inter-ethnic relations in Transcarpathian (Zakarpattia) Ukraine.[4]

Selected works • Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia (with Hedvig Lohm and David Szakonyi). London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2010.[5] • Meskhetians: Homeward Bound… (with George Tarkhan-Mouravi and Forrest Kilimnik). Flensburg: ECMI, 2010.[6] • The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads: Integration, Repatriation or Resettlement? (eds. with Andrej Khanzhin), LIT Verlag, Hamburg 2008.[7] • Between Integration and Resettlement: The Meskhetian Turks (with Oskari Pentikäinen). ECMI Working Paper No. 21, 2004.[8] • Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons: Eco-Migration in Georgia 1981–2006 (with Medea Turashvili). ECMI Monograph No. 6, 2007.[9] • Focus on the Rusyns (editor). Copenhagen: Danish Cultural Institute, 1999.[10] • Inter-Ethnic Relations in Transcarpathian Ukraine (ECMI Report). 1999.[11] Themes and contributions Trier’s publications analyze the interaction of state-building, identity, and minority rights in post-Soviet contexts. Under Siege is among the first English-language book-length studies centered on Abkhazia’s ethno-political dynamics. His ECMI projects on the Meskhetians have informed practice-oriented debates and policy action on repatriation versus third-country resettlement and domestic integration policies in Georgia and across the former Soviet space.[12]

External links • Profile (Hurst Publishers)[13] • Profile (Altinget)[14] • ECMI publications[15]

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  1. ^ "Authors".
  2. ^ https://mfa.gov.ge/pfiles/files/DIPLOMATIC_LIST_16_09_2024.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
  3. ^ "Authors".
  4. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/pdf/report_4.pdf
  5. ^ "Under Siege | Hurst Publishers".
  6. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/pdf/Meskhetians_Homeward_Bound_ENG.pdf
  7. ^ "The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads - European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)".
  8. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/pdf/working_paper_21b.pdf
  9. ^ "Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons; Solution of a Problem or Creation of a New? Eco-Migration in Georgia 1981 – 2006". August 2007.
  10. ^ Trier, Tom (1999). Focus on the Rusyns: International Colloquium on the Rusyns of East Central Europe. Danish Cultural Institute. ISBN 978-87-7429-094-0.
  11. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/pdf/report_4.pdf
  12. ^ "Repatriation Issues for Muslim Meskhetians | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Tbilisi - South Caucasus Region".
  13. ^ "Tom Trier".
  14. ^ "Altinget | Nyheder, analyser og debat om dansk politik".
  15. ^ "#6: Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons Solution of a Problem or Creation of a New? - European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)".