Process of resettling from Crimea and Donbas is accompanied by situations which in Grafinkel’s terms can be called “break of the frame”

• Process of resettling from Crimea and Donbas is accompanied by situations which in Grafinkel’s terms can be called “break of the frame”

• resettled people are pushed to rethink their identities, as well as the socio-cultural values associated with different worldview, traditions, models of behavior, language and religious practices, political dispositions, etc.

June-September 2016

• June-September 2016

61 in-depth interviews (9 in progress):

• 61 in-depth interviews (9 in progress):

• 1. Internally displaced persons from the territory of the Crimean peninsula - 26 in-depth interviews.

• 2. Internally displaced persons from the occupied territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - 35 in-depth interviews.

In each direction included two groups:

• In each direction included two groups:

• those who left and stayed at the selected destination

• unsuccessful cases of resettlement (those who returned home)

Ukraine-controlled territories in Donbass

• Ukraine-controlled territories in Donbass

• Bakhmut (Artemovsk),
• Dobropillia,
• Severodonetsk,
• Starobelsk,

Poland – Warsaw

• Poland – Warsaw

• Russia – Moscow, Salekhahrd (Arctic circle), Tumen (West Syberia), Cherepovets (Vologodska obl.), Pskov (Pskovskaya obl.), Mordovia

• Germany – Greifswald

• Turkey – in progress

Fear – most difficult to reach Crimean group especially those, who returned to Crimea (unsuccessful attempt). There worked 4 interviewers (local, from Ukraine, from Russia, Crimean Tatar).

• Fear – most difficult to reach Crimean group especially those, who returned to Crimea (unsuccessful attempt). There worked 4 interviewers (local, from Ukraine, from Russia, Crimean Tatar).

• Similar situation in Turkey after failed coup and LNR after failed association of their leader

• Post traumatic syndrome - (2 respondents were captured and tortured, several survived shelling)

• Sensitiveness and Silence - all interviewed respondents have relatives on occupied territories.

1 Circumstances of relocation (when, why, how new place was chosen, level of acquaintance with a new location, whether they planned to move before, who helped and who made it more difficult)

• 1 Circumstances of relocation (when, why, how new place was chosen, level of acquaintance with a new location, whether they planned to move before, who helped and who made it more difficult)

• 2 Future of the region (vision of the future, whether border should be and where, what is “russiky mir”, whether and under which condition they would come back)

• 3 Previous travelling experience (if any, which destinations (including holy places, excursions, visits to mourning places), comparison of people/cultures)

4 Description of their family (who left, who stayed, what are the sources of support)

• 4 Description of their family (who left, who stayed, what are the sources of support)

• 5 Reaction of relatives, neighbors, colleagues

• 6. Life before the resettlement (emotions about the city, material conditions, work, and how those conditions had changed)

• 7 Everyday life at the new place (registration, job, living conditions, structure of expenses, kids, religious needs, contacts with state structures and volunteers, advices for improvement or to future refugees)

8. Experience a new urban space (first impressions, emotions, comparison with previous place, rootedness, positive and negative sides)

• 8. Experience a new urban space (first impressions, emotions, comparison with previous place, rootedness, positive and negative sides)

• 9. Social groups (identities) – (self-representation, “our” and “other”, ”superior” groups, visible social groups at the old and new place, group conflicts).

• 10. Social relations and networks (before and after, reception, attitudes)

• 11. Specific of cultural adaptation (whether people notice that they are not local, what are the main differentiating characteristics, language issue).

12 History and memory:

• 12 History and memory:

• What do they know about history of their own city and new location?

• What monuments are there?

• Whether they talk about the history in the family?

• Whether they talk about the history at work?

• What are the most positive/negative events/personalities in history of the country and locality?

• What holidays they celebrate?