Statehood and survival: Ukrainian identity in East-Central European diasporas

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2564702" target="_blank" >10.1080/2474736X.2025.2564702</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Statehood and survival: Ukrainian identity in East-Central European diasporas

Original language description

This article examines how the presence - or absence - of a functioning nation-state shapes national identity in diaspora. Drawing on comparative fieldwork among Ukrainian communities in Romania, Moldova, Transnistria, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it shows that identity is sustained not through constant affirmation, but at critical junctures - via education, institutions, commemorations, and symbolic acts. Where the Ukrainian state maintains engagement, identity proves resilient; where it withdraws, identity fades or realigns with host-state frameworks. The findings challenge essentialist views of ethnicity and language as sufficient markers of belonging. Instead, identity emerges as a strategic enactment shaped by institutional scaffolding and state presence. The article contributes to debates in nationalism and diaspora studies by refining theories of identity construction and proposing a typology of diaspora-state relations, ranging from 'symbolic continuity' to 'institutional displacement'.

Czech name

Statehood and survival: Ukrainian identity in East-Central European diasporas

Czech description

This article examines how the presence - or absence - of a functioning nation-state shapes national identity in diaspora. Drawing on comparative fieldwork among Ukrainian communities in Romania, Moldova, Transnistria, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it shows that identity is sustained not through constant affirmation, but at critical junctures - via education, institutions, commemorations, and symbolic acts. Where the Ukrainian state maintains engagement, identity proves resilient; where it withdraws, identity fades or realigns with host-state frameworks. The findings challenge essentialist views of ethnicity and language as sufficient markers of belonging. Instead, identity emerges as a strategic enactment shaped by institutional scaffolding and state presence. The article contributes to debates in nationalism and diaspora studies by refining theories of identity construction and proposing a typology of diaspora-state relations, ranging from 'symbolic continuity' to 'institutional displacement'.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

POLITICAL RESEARCH EXCHANGE

ISSN

2474-736X

e-ISSN

2474-736X

Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001586616700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105018506840