Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Year: 2015

The study examines the patterns of media representation of the Crimean Tatars’ deportation of 1944, in particular discursive strategies of exclusions and inclusions based on territorial and ethnic markers of collective identity. The study puts forward the argument that the Russian political and cultural dominance prevails in the media discourse of Crimea, often suppressing the voice and agency of the ethnic minority groups, such as the Crimean Tatars. The public debate over the collective memory