eprintid: 10206636
rev_number: 11
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creators_name: Shumytska, Halyna
title: The rear region in wartime Ukraine – language policy and the language situation in Transcarpathia
ispublished: pub
keywords: language policy, language situation, national minorities (communities), migration processes, internal migrants.
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abstract: The article highlights the peculiarities of the linguistic and political situation in Zakarpattia as a rear border region of Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Attention is drawn to the fact of acute challenges and, at the same time, new opportunities
for the country as a whole and for each of its regions in particular, especially for the state
language policy and institutions involved in its implementation. Examples of successful
implementation of projects in the field of language policy are given, including the adoption
of regional programs for the establishment and development of the Ukrainian language as
the state language and other initiatives. The author emphasizes the change in the language
situation in the region due to the active emigration of local residents of Transcarpathia,
in particular from among the representatives of national minorities, while the population
is replenished by internal migrants. The main reasons for this situation are, on the one
hand, the low level of socio-economic development of the region in the pre-war period,
and on the other hand, the security factor associated with the war in Ukraine. It is noted
that the language issue in the region continues to be used for manipulative purposes.
This is evidenced by the monitoring of all-Ukrainian and regional media content during the
war and the analysis of language biographies concluded with representatives of national
minorities in Zakarpattia during 2021–2023 as part of the international research project
“Debates on Linguistic Diversity - Managing Minority Languages in Post-Soviet Ukraine”.
Important conditions for the return of Ukrainian citizens after the war are the
adoption of a law on multiple citizenship in Ukraine, as well as the creation of conditions in
the region for the proper mastery of Ukrainian as the state language and the coordination of
efforts by government officials and NGOs to study the current needs of ethnic communities
and develop a work plan for the implementation of the necessary programs and activities.
date: 2025-04-11
publisher: Uzhhorod National University = ДВНЗ "Ужгородський національний університет"
official_url: https://www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
doi: 10.14324/000.ch.10206636
isbn_13: 978-617-8390-78-5
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Uzhhorod, Ukraine
pagerange: 133-154
event_title: Languages and Cultures in Times of War: (Im)possible, (Re)imagined, (Un)manageable
book_title: Мови та культури під час війни: Колективна монографія = Languages and cultures in times of war: Collective monograph
editors_name: Shumytska, Halyna
editors_name: Krouglov, Alex
citation:        Shumytska, Halyna;      (2025)    The rear region in wartime Ukraine – language policy and the language situation in Transcarpathia.                     In: Shumytska, Halyna and Krouglov, Alex, (eds.) Мови та культури під час війни: Колективна монографія = Languages and cultures in times of war: Collective monograph.  (pp. pp. 133-154).  Uzhhorod National University = ДВНЗ "Ужгородський національний університет": Uzhhorod, Ukraine.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206636/1/Sumytska_paper8.pdf