2020/05/13 by Hulya Dogan · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Homeland #Persecution #Ethnic group #Politics #Meaning (existential) #State (computer science) #Population #Gender studies #Ethnic community #Political science #Ethnology #Geography #Sociology #Criminology #Law #Demography #Psychology
paper · doi:10.1111/sena.12318
openalex publication_date 2020/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Abstract Ahıska Turks are a dispersed community without a nation‐state and, similar to other ethnic minorities of the former Soviet Union, their political powerlessness rendered them subject to persecution under Stalinist rule. Most of the Ahıska Turks interviewed for this study identify themselves both ethnically and nationally with Turkey, but their cultural geographic focus lies in present‐day Georgia. By incorporating qualitative data collected through fieldwork in Turkey, this article investigates where home is for this group by asking whether Georgia still holds any meaning as homeland, or whether the location of the ‘homeland’ is shifting as the population resettles in Turkey.