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Accepting Alien Rule? State-Building Nationalism in Georgia’s Azeri Borderland / Berglund, Christofer

Berglund, Christofer	Journal Article
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How did ethnic Azeris in the Marneuli, Bolnisi and Dmanisi districts, located inside Georgia but bordering Azerbaijan, react to the reorganisation of political space along national lines after the Soviet Union’s dissolution? ‘Beached’ in foreign states bent on nationalising their domains, minorities throughout Eurasia sometimes rejected and sometimes accepted their alien rulers. This essay examines reactions to this predicament among Georgia’s Azeris. Drawing on elite interviews and data from a matched-guise experiment, it concludes that locals have come to accept their host state after its state-building nationalism took an inclusive turn and the distinction between aliens and natives faded.

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Alien Rule ; State-Building Nationalism ; Georgia’s Azeri Borderland

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Safe haven?: radical Islam's scandinavian links / Jonsson, Michael; Berglund, Christofer

Jonsson, Michael	Journal Article
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2009.

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Safe Haven ; Scandinavian ; Islam's ; Radical islam's Group ; Radical Environments ; Foreign fighters

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Sticking Together? Georgia’s “Beached” Armenians Between Mobilization and Acculturation / Berglund, Christofer; Dragojevic, Marko; Blauvelt, Timothy

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As the USSR fell apart and independent countries took its place, minorities across Eurasia found themselves stranded in nationalizing states. This article focuses on one of these “beached diasporas”: Georgia’s Armenians. Through a mixed-methods approach, consisting of interviews with activists and a sociolinguistic experiment administered to adolescents (N = 529), we uncover differences among Armenians in their reactions to Georgia’s nationalization policies. Armenians from the borderland of Javakheti mobilized in defence of the in-group but their co-ethnics from the capital of Tbilisi opted for acculturation. These intragroup differences demonstrate that members of the same ethnic group can react to the same nationalization policies along disparate lines, thus adding nuance to the literature on beached diasporas in the post-Soviet space.

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Armenia ; Georgia ; Beached ; Mobilization and Acculturation

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