Between the Home and Kin-State: Self-Identification and Attachment of Ukrainians and Romanians in the Ukrainian-Romanian Borderland of Bukovina. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bureiko, Nadiia; Moga, Teodor Lucian; Gheorghiu, Alexandra; Ibănescu, Bogdan–Constantin
• Is Part Of: Problems of post-communism. Volume 68:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 53
• Page End: 65
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Post-communism -- Periodicals; Post-communism; Periodicals; 330.91717
• DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1734470
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1075-8216

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the two most relevant minority groups living on the two sides of the Ukrainian–Romanian borderland of Bukovina. This research inquires from a comparative perspective how Romanians in Ukraine and Ukrainians in Romania (confined to the region of Bukovina) position themselves in relation to the state of their ethnic origin and to the current state of their residency. The paper argues that the self-identification of each ethnic minority with the present home state hinges more on the economic and political conditions existing in the respective state rather than on cultural bonding or loyalties to their kin-state.