2002 Articles

IDENTITY, ETHNICITY, AND ETHNOGENESIS: The Reintegration of Formerly Deported Crimean Tatars

Burney, Shehla

The geopolitics of land, ethnicity, and identity have indelibly defined the global resurgence of new ethnic nationalisms at the turn of the millenium, most with horrific consequences of "blood and belonging," while a few have resulted in a more positive sense of ethnogenesis, or the rebirth, reclaiming, and reinventing of ethnocultural identity and national self-awareness.