Taking as its starting point the ethnogenesis of this ethnic group during the Mongol period (13th century); this volume traces their history through Islam; the Ottoman and the Russian Empires (15th and 17th century). The author discusses how Islam; Russian colonial policies and indigenous national movements shaped the collective identity of this victimized ethnic group. Part two deals with the role of forced migration during the Russian colonial period; Soviet nation-building policies and ethnic cleansing in shaping this people's modern national identity. This work therefore also has wider applications for those dealing with the construction of diasporic identities. Taking a comparative approach; it traces the formation of Crimean Tatar diasporas in the Ottoman Balkans; Republican Turkey; and Soviet Central Asia (from 1944). A theme which emerges through the work is the gradual construction of the Crimea as a national homeland by its indigenous Tatar population. It ends with a discussion of the post-Soviet repatriation of the Crimean Tatars to their Russified homeland and the social and identity problems involved.
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