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Discussion

My research will examine the fluid identity among people with dual nationality from war-torn East Ukraine. Previous research has shed some light on the constructivism nature of identity in a conflict setting and provided evidence on the shift of Ukrainian national identity after 2014. However, as previous research mainly relied on large-scale sociological surveys, it fails to capture the underlying connections between different identity categories, as people may combine elements of different identity categories in various contexts. This research proposes to study a group of people which largely exists and best represents this complexity of identity but nevertheless is rarely studied before. The research hence hopes to enrich the existing literature in three ways: theoretically, it challenges the methodological nationalism way of thinking and demonstrates how various national, regional, and ethnic composition factors (i.e., Ukrainianness, Russianness) can combine and connect flexibly depending on the context; methodologically, the research will adopt a narrative political identity method, which prevails in psychology and oral history, and justify its usefulness in finding underlying connections of various factors in a broader narrative; empirically, it chooses a group of people which has rarely been examined before.