From Surgun to Vatan : ethnic identity construction and the repatriation processes of the Crimean Tatars and the Meskhetian Turks
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2010

The Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks are former-Soviet ethnic groups who were deported en masse by the Stalinist regime in 1944, from present-day Ukraine and Georgia to Central Asia. Even after Stalin's death and the official acknowledgement of the harm caused by their deportation, neither group was allowed to return to its homeland. Today, both groups are struggling to repatriate to regions of independent post-Soviet states, the Crimean Tatars to the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, and the Mes