СУЧАСНА УКРАЇНСЬКА ДІАСПОРА ТА МЕТРОПОЛІЯ: КОЛІЗІЇ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ВЗАЄМОДІЇ

Abstract

The article examines the historical conditionality of the transformation processes in the system of "metropolis-diaspora" relations. The author identifies the main determinants and mechanisms of its functioning that ensured the survival of the Ukrainian ethnos despite the imperial and Soviet occupation policies, on _ one hand, and the territorial dispersion and institutional weakness of immigrant communities outside the homeland, on the other. The subject of the study is the inclusive forms of coexistence of ethnophores in the new geopolitical, socio-cultural and economic realities, which reveal the degree of their entropy and demonstrate the particular experience of overcoming new existential challenges. The strategic task of today for mainland Ukraine is to defend its own subjectivity and sovereignty in the armed struggle against Russia while maintaining ethno-national superiority. At the same time, the diaspora faces the need to: adapt to the growing mobility of the population; help to regulate the inflow of temporarily displaced persons from the metropolis, leveling the influence of similar pro-Russian structures; overcome the ―age‖ and territorial disunity of the transnational space; build a qualitatively new strategy of integration into Ukrainian society through the legalization of its status, etc. The process of interaction between the diaspora and Ukraine is not an example of productive and constructive relations. The policy of distancing and exploiting the diaspora in the interests of the metropolis is the main conflict that prevents the development of a powerful nationally oriented domestic and foreign policy strategy for bilateral lobbying, cultural reproduction, European integration, etc. Ignoring the interests of such a large diaspora can be disastrous for Ukrainian statehood. The author concludes that the ethnic divergence caused by the war has significantly intensified and updated the bilateral processes of interaction between the homeland and the diaspora. Fighting against the enemy inside or outside one's oikoumene has brought them much closer, but has not completely eliminated all contradictions between them. The process of their elimination is possible only if we win, which will create a powerful mentally determined feedback for a new dialogue.