Identity perceptions in the Republic of Moldova: global influences and local particularities
Identity perceptions in the Republic of Moldova: global influences and local particularities

Summary/Abstract: The topic of identity returns to the forefront of public attention as a unifying and coagulating element of human communities in the face of such current global challenges as globalization and migration. At the local level, the identity discourse in the Republic of Moldova is presented as a very complex, controversial, and disputed one, especially at the level of ethnic, national, and state identity. Similar to the former union republics after the disintegration of the USSR, the space of the Republic of Moldova is going through a difficult process of regaining, reaffirming, re-updating, remodeling, and rediscovering its own identities. The lack of unity, cooperation, understanding, and initiative among the country’s population is determined by the existence of dissensions in the following perceptions: Moldovans vs. Romanians, Moldovan vs. Romanian, Romanianism vs. Moldovanism, unionism vs. separatism, Romanianism, Moldovanism vs. cohabiting ethnicities. The purpose of this research is to investigate the identity perceptions in the Republic of Moldova in the context of global processes of the 21st century: globalization and migration. These phenomena overlap with a complex database that was historically determined by the processes of identity construction during the Soviet and the postindependence periods.

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