INDIGENEITY, DISPLACEMENT, AND REGIONAL PLACE ATTACHMENT AMONG IDPS FROM CRIMEA
Journal: Geographical Review
Year: 2020

Studies of indigenous place attachments tend to focus on the alternative environmental ontologies that animate and inform indigenous peoples’ relationships with place, but rarely engage with the material and psychological impacts of colonialist practices—namely, displacement and dispossession of land. Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 triggered the internal displacement of tens of thousands of Crimeans to mainland Ukraine, including ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and indigenous