Comparative Cases in Long-Distance Nationalism:Explaining the Émigré, Exile, Diaspora and Transnational Movements of the Crimean Tatars
Journal: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Year: 2012

This dissertation is an attempt to explore the unexpected mobilization of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in the recent decades. Why and how did the Crimean Tatar communities, all of which resided outside their homeland, develop a political identity and engage in nationalist mobilization in the 1990s? How did the communities, living apart from each other, in some cases for more than a century, mobilize simultaneously? What explains the variation in forms of mobilization among these communities? Does