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This book explains the unexpected mobilization of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in recent decades through an exploration of the exile experiences of the Crimean Tatars in Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North America. This book adds to the growing literature on diaspora case studies and is essential reading for researchers and students of diasporas, migration, ethnicity, nationalism, transnationalism, identity formation and social movements. Moreover, this book is relevant both for specialists in Crimean Tatar Studies and for the larger fields of Communist, Post-Communist, Middle Eastern, European, and American studies.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Explaining Long-Distance Nationalism.- Chapter 3. Crimean Tatar community in the Soviet Union (1944 - 1991): A Case in Exile Nationalism.- Chapter 4. The Crimean Tatar community in Romania (1900-): From Exile to Diaspora Nationalism.- Chapter 5. The Crimean Tatar community in Turkey (1908-): From Emigre to Diaspora Nationalism.- Chapter 6. The Crimean Tatar community in the US (1960-): From Émigré to Diaspora Nationalism.- Chapter 7. Comparison of Cases and Conclusion: Towards a Transitional Nation?
About the author
Filiz Tutku Ayd¿n is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey.
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"This work significantly advances our conceptual and empirical knowledge. It generates a new conceptual understanding by utilizing the framing processes and creates a useful typology that might inspire many other diaspora researchers. ... it is also helpful for those who desire to understand the historical dynamics of contemporary Crimean politics, Crimean Tatars' relationships with the Russian regime as well as the persecutions and forcible movements to which they have been exposed in the post-annexation period." (Oguzhan Ozdemir, Eurasian Geography and Economics, February 14, 2023)
