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| Educational Background |
Ph.D. (candidate of science) in World History, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Science, November 1999-March 2002 Diploma in Sociology, Moscow State University, September 1993 - June 1998 |
| Prior Employment |
Director, Center for Qualitative Social Policy Research, Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, since June 2013 Associate Professor, School of Cultural Studies Higher School of Economics, Moscow, since June 2013 – June 2024 Director, Centre for History and Anthropology, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, May 2008 – September 2013 Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, September 2002 – May 2008 |
| Profile |
Ekaterina Demintseva’s research addresses such issues as the adaptation of migrants, the migration policy in Russia and Western Europe, the migration of highly qualified specialists, and the migrants’ access to education. She also has extensive background in African studies with focus on modern African diasporas in the West. Her first major research project focused on the history of postcolonial migration from the Maghreb to France and the integration of Maghrebian migrant families, with special focus on the challenges of adaptation in France faced by the second generation of migrants. This work resulted in the monograph Being “an Arab” in France (published in Russian in 2008). As a researcher at the Center for History and Anthropology of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000-2013), Ekaterina Demintseva gained extensive experience conducting anthropological fieldwork in several African countries (Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, and Rwanda) in 2005-2009. This work focused on such issues as interethnic and interfaith relations in these countries, as well as the image of Russia in Africa. Since 2012, Demintseva’s research focused on a new topic that was becoming increasingly relevant during those years: migration from the Central Asian countries to Russia. In 2012 and 2013-2014, she was the principal investigator at externally and internally funded research projects that explored the social, cultural, and economic adaptation of Central Asian migrants in Russia. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, Central Asian Survey, Race Ethnicity and Education, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity etc. |
| Publications |
Monograph Byt' «arabom» vo Francii [Being an “Arab” in France]. Moscow: NLO Press, 2008 [In Russian]
EditedVolumes Rasizm, diskriminaciya, ksenofobiya. Kakimi my ih uvideli… [Racism, discrimination, xenophobia. How we saw them ...]. Moscow: NLO Press, 2013 [In Russian] Afrika: processy sociokul'turnoj transformacii [Africa: The processes of socio-cultural transformation]. Moscow: Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, 2014 [With Dmitry Bondarenko] [In Russian] Islam v Evrope i v Rossii [Islam in Europe and Russia]. Moscow: “Mardgani” Press, 2008. [In Russian]
Key Articles and Book Chapters “Ethnicity in schools: perception of migrant children in the multicultural environment of Russian cities.” Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity. 2022. 50(6): 1093-1106. doi:10.1017/nps.2022.25 “Understanding Russia’s Brain Drain in the 2010s.” Problems of Post-Communism. 2021. 68(6): 521-530. DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.1905533. “The infrastructure created by migrants: the case of migrant from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow,” in Migration from the Newly Independent States: 25 years after the collapse of the USSR. Eds. M. B. Denisenko, S. Strozza & M. Light. Springer, 2020. Pp. 209-222. “‘Migrant schools’ and the ‘children of migrants’: constructing boundaries around and inside school space.” Race Ethnicity and Education. 2020. 23(4): 598-612. doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1538126 “Educational infrastructure created in condition of social exclusion: ‘Kyrgyz’ clubs’ for migrant children in Moscow.” Central Asian Survey. 2020. 39(2): 220-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2019.1697643. “‘Kyrgyz Clinics’ in Moscow: Medical Centres for Central Asian Migrants.” Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. 2018. 37 (5): 401-411. [with D. Kashnitsky] DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2017.1417280 “Labour Migrants in Post-Soviet Moscow: Patterns of Settlement.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2017. 43(15): 2556-2572. DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2019.1697643 “Contextualizing Migrants’ Strategies of Seeking Medical Care in Russia.” International Migration. 2016. 54(5): 29-42. [with D. Kashnitsky] doi.org/10.1111/imig.12247 “Les amicales (zemliatchestva) africaines et la formation idéologique des étudiants africains en Union soviétique, 1960-1970.” In Étudier à l’Est. Expériences de diplômés africains. Eds. Monique de Saint Martin, Grazia Scarfo Ghellab & Kamal Mellakh. Karthala Press, 2015. P. 51-63. [with N. Krylova] “African entrepreneurs in Moscow: How they did it their way.” UrbanAnthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 2014. 43 (1-3): 205-254. [With Bondarenko D., Usacheva V., Zelenova D.] |