Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: ethnicity, migration, and historical justice

Neringa Klumbytė and Kristina Šliavaitė

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2021, vol. 52, issue 3, 437-454

Abstract: In this article, we review the history of building a post-Soviet sovereign state in Lithuania by institutionalizing social and political difference of some groups in laws, policy, and public discourse. We argue that an exclusive inclusion of national (ethnic) minorities and migrants have played an important role in defining political belonging to a post-Soviet sovereign state. Language and citizenship laws and policies have been the major sites through which national minorities and migrants have been categorized and integrated in a post-1991 society. We conclude with the analysis of the politics of historical justice, central in defining political belonging to a post-2014 sovereign state.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2021.1944237

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