Minority Issues in Times of Conflict

Ongoing Projects

  • Minority Issues in the context of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine
    This research theme explores inter-minority relations with a specific focus on attitudes and political behaviour in the context of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. We put a special focus on two ethnic groups, Russian minorities and Crimean Tatars. We investigate the willingness of Russian speakers to defend their country and their trust in democratic institutions, as well as the cultural identity and resilience of Crimean Tatars amidst historical oppression. A project proposal will be developed which aims to explore how experiences of violence and displacement shape attitudes of minority members.

           Repression against Crimean Tatars 

           Minorities and their willingness to defend the country 

  • Collaborative Data Network for Eastern Europe (KoDaNetOst)
    KoDaNetOst is a data network whose aim is to foster links between research institutes and scholars in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia and the EU countries who are engaged in the collection and utilisation of data in the social sciences and humanities.
    Funded by BMBF. More information here.

Events

Recent Publications

  • Schulte, Felix, Juris Pupcenoks, and Māris Andžāns. 2025. “Cultural Memory and the Minority Effect in (Un-) Willingness to Fight for the Nation: Evidence from Russian-Speakers in Latvia" European Journal of International Security. doi: 10.1017/eis.2025.10026.
  • Muratova, Elmira and Felix Schulte. 2025. “Thursdays are for searches. The Russian repression calendar in occupied Crimea”, KonKoop DataLab Blog.
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2025. “Displacement, Memory, and the Homeland of the Crimean Tatars.” Researching Internal Displacement, January 5, 2025. https://lnkd.in/e9eV5prR
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2025. “Collective Memory, Islam, and Coping Strategies of Crimean Tatars in Occupied Crimea.” In Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience in Ukraine, edited by Elmira Muratova and Nadia Zasanska, 77–97. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470601
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2025. “Memory of Forced Displacements in the Discourse and Coping Strategies of Crimean Tatars in Post-2014 Crimea.” Nationalities Papers. Special Issue. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2024.54
  • Debus, Marc, and Felix Schulte. 2024. “How Party Competition Shapes Ethnic Parties’ Positions on Migration and Immigration.” Party Politics 30(1): 126–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688221136107
  • Neureiter, Michael, and Felix Schulte. 2024. “A Tale of Two Logics: How Solidarity and Threat Perceptions Shape Immigrant Attitudes towards Immigration in Western Europe.” West European Politics 47(2): 280–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2022.2143162
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2024. “Displacement and Belonging: Redefining ‘Homeland’ and ‘Return’ among Crimean Tatars.” Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe 23(3): 98-123. https://doi.org/10.53779/ELMU1312
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2024. “Chapter 4: Politics of the Memory of Deportation and Interethnic Relations in Post-2014 Crimea.” European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online 21 (1): 78– 98. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116117_02101005
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2024. “The Lives and Hopes of Crimean Tatars after the 2014 Annexation.” ZOiS Spotlight 6, www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-lives-and-hopes-of-crimean-tatars-after-the-2014-annexation
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2024. “Krimtatarische Studien nach 2014. Ein Forschungsfeld in der Grauzone.” Für Vielfalt 340 (1): 30–32.
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2023. “Verfolgung und Abkapselung. Die Krimtataren und Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine.” Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West 9: 28–30.
  • Muratova, Elmira. 2022. “Gender roles and Muslim women’s activism in post-2014 Crimea.” Religion, State and Society 50(1): 60–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2021.1971039
  • Medda-Windischer, Roberta, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Felix Schulte, and Stephanie Marsal Cramer. 2020. Mapping Integration Indicators. A Reference Tool for Evaluating the Implementation of Ljubljana Guidelines-Based Policy, Report Commissioned by the HCNM/OSCE. EURAC, Aland Peace Institute, Heidelberg University. https://webassets.eurac.edu/31538/1621957111-report-mapping-integration-indicators-2020.pdf

Working Papers

  • Schulte, Felix., Elmira Muratova. 2025. “Little Green Men and Jobs for the Boys. How Repression Affects Co-optation in Post-Annexation Crimea”.
  • Schulte, Felix., Elmira Muratova. 2025. “Patterns and Drivers of Repression against Crimean Tatars: Evidence from a new dataset (2014-2024)”.

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