Displacement and Belonging: Redefining ‘Homeland’ and ‘Return’ among Crimean Tatars
Journal: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
Year: 2024

This article examines Crimean Tatar perceptions of ‘homeland’ and ‘return’ following the 2014 annexation of Crimea, contrasting these views with those of Crimean Tatars in exile after the 1944 deportation. I argue that while nearly all aspects of homeland perception among exiled Crimean Tatars – such as an identity marker, a mythologized final destination, and the place where their community reside – are still evident in the narratives of those displaced after 2014, their emphasis and meaning ha