ABSTRACT

Nation-building has been an important and often complicated process in countries like Ukraine, which emerged from ethno-federal communist systems. In Ukraine, a civic approach to national identity has gained support since 2013, but it exists alongside a more ethnic Ukrainian–focused view of national identity. This article focuses on a central element of civic national identity in Ukraine: citizenship. Survey data from both closed-ended and open-ended questions are used to gauge the appeal of a citizenship-based identity and the reasons that respondents view citizenship as an important part of who they are. The results point to a strong connection to citizenship as an identity, and to patterns about which groups of people claim citizenship as an important part of their identity and why. The findings indicate that, if and when a more civic-oriented identity becomes the predominant approach to nation-building in Ukraine, citizenship will be a central part of the process.

摘要

在诸如乌克兰这样的国家中，民族主义建设是一个重要的过程，而且往往是一个复杂的过程，而这一过程源于民族联邦制。在乌克兰，自2013年以来，公民身份处理方法获得了支持，但与乌克兰人更多地关注民族身份的视图并存。本文重点介绍乌克兰公民身份的核心要素：公民身份。来自封闭式和开放式问题的调查数据都用于评估基于公民身份的吸引力以及受访者将公民视为自己身份重要组成部分的原因。结果表明与公民身份作为一种身份有着密切的联系，并指出了哪些群体声称公民身份是其身份的重要组成部分以及原因的模式。调查结果表明，