Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine
Journal: Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft eBooks
Year: 2024

Considering Ukraine’s relationship with Russia, this study demonstrates the complexities and costs of Ukrainian nation building and its effects on Ukrainian national belonging, amid the country’s recent challenges of war and displacement: from Russia's annexation of Crimea and the armed secessionist conflict in the Donbas in 2014 to Russia's war against Ukraine since 2022. Ukraine’s identity is strongly based on its language, pro-democratic and pro-European attitudes, and its emancipation from R