Migration as Social Movement: Voluntary Group Migration and the Crimean Tatar Repatriation

Zaloznaya, Marina; Gerber, Theodore P.

doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00492.x

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“…17. Accused of cooperating with the German army, Crimean Tatars were deported to remote areas of Central Asia by the Soviet authorities after World War II, and only returned to Crimea in the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed (Zaloznaya & Gerber, 2012 Note: All predictors are statistically significant (p < 1eÀ04).…”

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Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

Gruzd¹,

Tsyganova²

2015

Policy & Internet

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This article examines how online groups are formed and sustained during crisis periods, especially when political polarization in society is at its highest level. We focus on the use of Vkontakte (VK), a popular social networking site in Ukraine, to understand how it was used by Pro-and AntiMaidan groups during the 2013/2014 crisis in Ukraine. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent the ideology (or other factors) of a particular group shapes its network structure. We find some support that online social networks are likely to represent local and potentially preexisting social networks, likely due to the dominance of reciprocal (and often close) relationships on VK and opportunities for group members to meet face-to-face during offline protests. We also identify a number of group-level indicators, such as degree centralization, modularity index and average engagement level, that could help to classify groups based on their network properties. Community researchers can start applying these group-level indicators to online communities outside VK; they can also learn from this article how to identify networks of spam and marketing accounts.

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Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

Gruzd¹,

Tsyganova²

2015

Policy & Internet

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“…We have classifi ed the experiential literature on community relocation into four groups: 1) communities either fully or partly relocated in response to fl ooding (David & Mayer, 1984 (FEMA & APA, 2005;Imura & Shaw, 2009); 2) community relocation, both planned and actual, in response to the impacts of mining (Nilsson, 2010;Shriver & Kennedy, 2005); 3) climigration, or planned retreat in response to the hazards of climate change (Abel et al, 2011;Bronen & Chapin, 2013;Niven & Bardsley, 2013); and 4) group migration of refugees and repatriation, both voluntary and involuntary (Zaloznaya & Gerber, 2012).…”

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Relocating a Flood-Affected Community: Good Planning or Good Politics?

Sipe

Vella

2014

Journal of the American Planning Association

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Problem, research strategy and fi ndings: On January 10, 2011, the town of Grantham, Queensland (Australia), was inundated with a fl ash fl ood in which 12 of the town's 370 residents drowned. The overall damage bill in Queensland was AUD$2.38 billion (USD$2.4 billion) with 35 deaths, and more than three-quarters of the state was declared a fl ood disaster zone. In this study, we focus on the unusual and even rare decision to relocate Grantham in March 2011. The Lockyer Valley Regional Council (LVRC) acquired a 377-hectare (932-acre) site to enable a voluntary swap of equivalent-sized lots. In addition, planning regulations were set aside to streamline the relocation of a portion of the town. We review the natural hazard literature as it relates to community relocation, state and local government documents related to Grantham, and reports and newspaper articles related to the fl ood. We also analyze data from interviews with key stakeholders. We document the process of community relocation, assess the relocation process in Grantham against best practice, examine whether the process of community relocation can be upscaled and if the Grantham relocation is an example of good planning or good politics. Takeaway for practice: Our study reveals two key messages for practice. Community relocation (albeit a small one) is possible, and the process can be done quickly; some Grantham residents moved into their new, relocated homes in December 2012, just 11 months after the fl ood. Moreover, the role of existing planning regulations can be a hindrance to quick action; political leadership, particularly at the local level, is key to implementing the relocation.

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Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro- and Anti-Maidan Groups

Gruzd¹,

Tsyganova²

2023

Preprint

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This article examines how online groups are formed and sustained during crisis periods, especially when political polarization in society is at its highest level. We focus on the use of Vkontakte (VK), a popular social networking site in Ukraine, to understand how it was used by Pro- and Anti-Maidan groups during the 2013/2014 crisis in Ukraine. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent the ideology (or other factors) of a particular group shapes its network structure. We find some support that online social networks are likely to represent local and potentially preexisting social networks, likely due to the dominance of reciprocal (and often close) relationships on VK and opportunities for group members to meet face-to-face during offline protests. We also identify a number of group-level indicators, such as degree centralization, modularity index and average engagement level, that could help to classify groups based on their network properties. Community researchers can start applying these group-level indicators to online communities outside VK; they can also learn from this article how to identify networks of spam and marketing accounts.

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Migration as Social Movement: Voluntary Group Migration and the Crimean Tatar Repatriation

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

Relocating a Flood-Affected Community: Good Planning or Good Politics?

Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro- and Anti-Maidan Groups

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