NO LANDS’ PEOPLE: IDENTITIES AND ATTITUDES OF MIGRANTS ORIGINATING FROM POST-SOVIET “FROZEN CONFLICT” AREAS

Dorin Dusciac (), Clément Baloge () and Roman Ursu ()
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Dorin Dusciac: French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, Saclay, France
Clément Baloge: Paris 8 University, France
Roman Ursu: Luxembourg University

EURINT, 2018, vol. 5, 228-245

Abstract: The collapse of USSR in late 1980’s and the beginning of 1990’s was accompanied by a series of local and regional separatist movements that have rapidly burst out into local violent confrontations or civil wars, resulting in so-called “frozen conflicts” in Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Georgia), Transnistria (Moldova) and others. Since 2014, the Eastern part of Ukraine (Donetsk and Luhansk regions) is undergoing a seemingly similar scenario. Large numbers of people originating from conflict zones have migrated to Western Europe in search for peace, better economic conditions and personal and professional accomplishment. How do these migrants identify themselves once settled in destination countries? How do they define their own “national identity”, as persons originating from unrecognized “States”? In this paper, we compare the cases of these separatist regions in an attempt to offer an insight into a new topic, situated at the confluence of migration studies, geopolitics and ethnology.

Keywords: migration studies; frozen conflicts; separatism; international relations; national identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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