"No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars"

"No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars" is a work-in-progress collaboration between Maria Sonevytsky, an ethnomusicology PhD candidate at Columbia University, and Alison Cartwright, an award-winning New York City based photographer. In May of 2008, they travelled together throughout Crimea, an autonomous region of Ukraine, gathering the stories and songs that underscore the Crimean Tatars's decades-long struggle to return to their motherland following their brutal deportation by Stalin in 1944. The project explores how local ways of understanding what home means to these Crimean Tatar returnees connects to the global discourse on indigenous rights in the contemporary world.