title: Mobilising Christian emotions
abstract: Based on short-term ethnographic research in Transcarpathia, this chapter presents a case study of ethnic and racial categorisations utilised by the KEGYES Foundation, a Protestant NGO run by minority Hungarians that organises social interventions for abandoned children in a Mukachevo hospital. In 2019, in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea and areas of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament passed new legislation intended to facilitate public institutions’ ongoing language shift fr