Abstract:This paper analyses the ‘nationalist movement’ of Ahıska, a forcibly displaced people who have been arriving in Turkey from various parts of the former Soviet Union since the early 1990s. I focus on how members of this community attempt to define the Turkish nation, how they invoke migration to Turkey as a patriotic and nationalist act, how they criticize the state’s responses to this migration as insufficiently nationalist, and how they respond to the movement of non‐Turkish others into the territorial and do… Show more
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