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Dr Svitlana Odynets

Research Fellow

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

I am an anthropologist, migration scholar, and essayist. A Research Fellow position in the project: Debordering Europe through the 2022 Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Analysis of Responses in the UK, Poland, and Romania (led by Prof. Kathryn Cassidy) at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. A member of the FORUM network (Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Transnational Europe: Between Personal Agency, Civil Society, and the State) and the HROMADA network (Nordic-Baltic Knowledge-Based Input Network to the Rebuilding of Ukraine).

A blogger at Ukraina Moderna (https://uamoderna.com/author/odynets/),

I have been researching Ukrainian female migration to the EU since 2012. My primary research interests include transnationalism, gendered migration, the anthropology of borderlands, knowledge production, and decolonial processes in Central and Eastern Europe

Svitlana Odynets

Displacement, Ukraine, Transnationalism, Ethnography, Time and Temporalities

anthropology DPhil May 11 2016


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