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Émigré, Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Movements of the Crimean Tatars

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This chapter presents an overview of the main topic of investigation, main and sub-arguments, methods of investigation, literature review, and historical background of the case of the Crimean Tatar diaspora. Why did the Crimean Tatar diaspora rise beginning from the late 1980s? Through a longuee-duree case study of four cases of Crimean Tatar extra-territorial communities, and within-case comparisons, this book develops the generalization that diasporas mobilize as a consequence of a combination of political and discursive opportunity structures and a specific mobilization frame that was created by movement activists. The book also explains recent rejuvenation in Crimean Tatar diasporas with increasing transnationalism of ideational processes in parallel to globalization. Finally, the variation in forms and consequences of diaspora mobilization is explained through a typology of forms of long-distance nationalism.

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Aydın, F.T. (2021). Introduction. In: Émigré, Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Movements of the Crimean Tatars. Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74124-2_1

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