Overview
- The only book to cover the ?evolution of the Crimean Tatar diaspora with such breadth and depth
- Adds to the growing literature on diaspora case studies
- Essential reading for many fields of research including Nationalism studies as well as Middle Eastern, Russian and Eastern European studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions (PASC)
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“In 2014, Crimea was catapulted into the worldwide media following its forcible annexation by Russia. The Crimean Tatars, who were deported en masse in 1944 and who managed to return home in the 1990s, were threatened once again with deportation. Filiz Tutku Aydin’s book tells the remarkable story of how in the course of the twentieth century the Crimean Tatars managed to survive the tribulations of exile in foreign lands and how some managed against incredible odds to return home. Aydin’s book is truly unique in that it tells us not only about Crimean Tatar exiles in Soviet Central Asia, but also about the little-known experience of diasporan communities in Romania, Turkey, and the United States. The well-documented study is a must-read for anyone interested in transnationalism and the impact of diasporan communities upon their ancestral homelands.” (—Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, Canada)
“Crimean Tatars, the native people of the Crimea, have experienced bitter debacles of history, starting with the loss of their centuries-long statehood to the Russian Empire in 1783. While the majority of its population were forced to emigrate to the Ottoman Empire in the course of the following 150 years, the remaining ones were subjected to genocidal mass deportation to Central Asia by Stalin in 1944. Consequently, the modern history of the Crimean Tatars has become one of an incessant struggle for national survival and reclaiming their homeland against all odds up to this very day. The extremely unfavorable historical circumstances have compelled the Crimean Tatar people to unite its dispersed diasporic components by constructing a “transnational nation,” a peculiar and remarkably successful case of its kind among the peoples of the ex-USSR. Filiz Tutku Aydın treats this complex subject with the deep insight of an insider and a sound analysis of a scholar. This book is not only an essential reading material to learn the diasporic history of the Crimean Tatars, but also provides us with a useful and comparative case study for the experiences of similar transnational peoples and their long-distance national existence.” (—Hakan Kırımlı, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)“This is a fascinating study of Crimean Tatars as a transnational nation. Putting framing processes at the center of her analysis, Filiz Tutku Aydin develops a comparative typology of long-distance nationalism and offers intriguing insights intothe long-term developments of diasporic mobilization.” (—Martin Sokefeld, Martin Sökefeld, Luwig Maximilan University of Munich, Germany)
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Book Title: Émigré, Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Movements of the Crimean Tatars
Book Subtitle: Preserving the Eternal Flame of Crimea
Authors: Filiz Tutku Aydın
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74124-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74123-5Published: 19 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74126-6Published: 20 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74124-2Published: 18 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-5988
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 317
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Globalization, Migration, International Relations Theory