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On 15 August 1993, a Greek vessel arrived at the Black Sea shores of Abkhazia in order to rescue Greeks of ethnic origin who were fleeing the war. About a thousand people were taken aboard, given Greek passports and transferred to Greece. According to the Greek government, the Abkhazian Greeks were “repatriating” to Greece, although most of these people had never set foot in Greece before (De Waal, 2010: 154).
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Dumbrava, C. (2014). Introduction. In: Nationality, Citizenship and Ethno-Cultural Belonging. Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382085_1
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