Displacement and Sense of Belonging of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks, Crimean Tatars, and Roma since 2014

Warsaw, 15.10.2024, 17:00, CEST, zoom

Displacement and Sense of Belonging of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks, Crimean Tatars, and Roma since 2014

„Testimonies from the War” Research Seminars Series

This time we invite you to a conversation with Viktoriya Sereda, who has conducted research on how the Russian aggression influences the ethnic minorities of Ukraine. This is our second meeting with a scholar who does research corresponding to our work within the “Testimonies from the War” project.

This talk focuses on consequences of Russian aggression and war-induced displacement on minority groups that are often overlooked by both Ukrainian minority studies within Ukraine as well as by international migration research: the Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks, Crimean Tatars, and Roma. Due to their location in the south and east of the country, all three were strongly affected by Russian aggression in 2014, and especially after the full-scale invasion which began on 24 February 2022. Most research on displaced Ukrainian nationals focuses on the West-East (European Union (EU)-Russia) nexus and ignores the South. This article compares the experience of displacement of the three groups, in relation to 1) migration to Türkiye (for Ahiska Turks and Crimean Tatars) and 2) resettlement to other countries and internal displacement (for the Roma). It focuses on the (trans)national experience of displacement for minorities, as well as how this displacement and the response of receiving countries affects their sense of belonging. The study is based on a mixed-method approach combining desk research and qualitative in-depth interviews conducted with representatives of each community between 2014 and 2023, both in Ukraine and in their destination countries.

Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist, Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Senior Advisor of the project “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory” of the Forum Transregionale Studien. Since 2020, she has also been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a professor in the department of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In the spring semester of 2021, she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel. From 2011 to 2017, she was the head of the sociological team for the project “Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine”, organized by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 2016/17 and 2019/20 she was the MAPA Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where she developed a digital atlas of social changes in Ukraine after the Euromaidan.

Chair: Anna Wylegała, leader if the “Testimonies from the War” project in Poland.

The seminar will be conducted in English.

Please register at: publicrelations@ifispan.edu.pl. You will receive the link to the zoom meeting upon registration.

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