This collection focuses on Ukraines ethno-cultural minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour. The book examines the impact of Russias war against Ukraine, which began with the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas in 2014. It shows what happens to the cultural identities of minority groups and considers the mechanisms and components of their resilience in times of crisis. Key themes addressed include minorities collective memory and coping strategies, mobilisation and humanitarianism, forced displacement, and the preservation of identity. While most works on the Russo-Ukrainian war focus on the international context and the causes of the war and its humanitarian consequences for the population of Ukraine and the region as a whole, this book seeks to mainstream the issue of ethno-cultural minorities, which is often neglected in the coverage of this type of conflict. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Human Geography, Religious Studies and War and Peace Studies.
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Foreword: exploring how and why minorities shape the majority.
1.
Introduction. Ethno-cultural minority identities at war in Ukraine and
beyond. PART I: Minority politics, language, and identity during the war.
2.
National minorities in Ukraine: contextualizing challenges and searching for
policy solutions.
3. Majority-minority relations in Ukraine: state minority
politics in a changed security context. PART II: Collective memory and
minorities coping strategies.
4. Collective memory, Islam, and coping
strategies of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea.
5. Public discourses
connected to the Russian war in Ukraine: the representation of Jewish
communities.
6. Shia Muslims of Ukraine during the Russian invasion. PART
III: Mobilization, resilience, and humanitarianism
7. Muslim organizations in
Ukraine and the challenges of wartime: moderation, mobilization, and
resilience.
8. Mobilizing Christian emotions: everyday ethnicity and
resiliency in a Transcarpathian Hungarian NGO.
9. The Ukrainian national
minority and forced migrants in Poland: the case of Przemysl.
10. Going
beyond regional: the Greek Catholic Church as a communicator of dignity
during the Russo-Ukrainian war. PART IV: Displacement and identity
preservation during the war.
11. Exodus of the Hungarian minority from
Ukraine? War-induced ethnic dynamics in the Ukrainian-Hungarian border
region.
12. Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in time of uncertainty: changes in civic,
ethnic, and religious identification.
13. Ukrainian Roma facing the
challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian war and displacement.
14. Concluding
remarks.
Elmira Muratova is a post-doctoral researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany. Before that, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations,Taurida National University (Ukraine). She has published widely on Crimean Tatars, collective memory and Islam.
Nadia Zasanska is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. Her interests involve digital religion, media studies, and religious studies. Nadia has published in the areas of linguistics and digital religion.
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