In Our Country, but Outside Our Homeland: Identity and Diaspora Among Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Crimeans
Journal: KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas)
Year: 2018

In response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, tens of thousands of Crimean residents have relocated to mainland Ukraine as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including many ethnic Ukrainians, Russians, and indigenous Crimean Tatars. Deliberately choosing to remain Ukrainian rather than Russian citizens, Crimean IDPs have become emblematic of new discourses of Ukrainian civic and multicultural nationalism emerging in the wake of the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests. While th