Olga Cojocaru is an anthropologist with expertise in migration studies and ethnographic research. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at CIES-Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, working on the project AspirE, "Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to/within the EU: The case of labour market-leading migrations from Asia”, funded by the European Commission, within HORIZON Europe. Over the past years, she has been affiliated with the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, where she has completed her PhD on migrant temporalities with a case study on Moldovan domestic workers in Italy. Her doctoral research has been conducted under Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN as part of ‘Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities’ (TRANSMIC). Olga has held research fellowships at the New Europe College in Bucharest, the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), and the European University Institute in Florence. Her research engages with issues of time and space in mobility processes, exploring how temporalities shape and are shaped by the lived experiences of migrants.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1613 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8737-2549 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-cojocaru-36a1a227/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olga_Cojocaru |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Disciplines
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ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
University, Lisbon, Portugal
Researcher
Research
“In the back of my mind, time always ticks one hour forward”: The transnational temporalities of Moldovan domestic workers in Italy
| Authors | Olga Cojocaru |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Double Time-Bind in Paid Domestic Work: (Migrant) Workers and Their Employers in Italy and Poland
| Authors | Olga Cojocaru, Anna Rosińska |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Kultura i Społeczeństwo | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
‘Just look at those shabby trains in Lisbon’: post-arrival disappointment amongst Chinese migrants in Portugal
| Authors | Olga Cojocaru, Sofia Gaspar, Xuheng Wang |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |