Olga
Tkach
Adjunct Professor Olga Tkach is a senior researcher at the Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR), St. Petersburg, Russia. She defended her PhD in Sociology in 2008, and in 2018, she was awarded the title of docent by the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Finland, with a specialization in migration and welfare research. Olga studies and publishes on migration and mobility, au pair placement, home, domestic and care work, housing and neighbouring relations, and various aspects of the everyday. As the main grantee, she has been currently involved in two international Kone Foundation funded projects on neighbourness “The Big Layered Cake: towards the conceptualization of neighborness” (2019-2022) and On the Road with the Big Layered Cake: A Thoughtful Journey Through the Russian-Finnish Neighborhood (2019-2020). She also currently studies the issues of property relations and intra-city mobility within the project “Urban Margins, Global Transitions: Everyday Security and Mobility in Four Russian Cities” funded by the Research Council of Norway, NORRUSS programme, project No.287967 (2019-2022).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1081 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0464-2305 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olga_Tkach3 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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Centre for Independent Social Research
Non-governmental Organisation, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Senior Researcher -
University of Helsinki
University, Helsinki, Finland
Grant-funded researcher -
University of Helsinki
University, Helsinki, Finland
Research
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses
| Authors | Olga Tkach, Tina Gudrun Jensen, Alejandro Miranda-Nieto |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Space and Culture |
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Space and Culture |
Book Review of Chouliaraki, Lilie and Georgiou, Myria 2022. <em>The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power</em>. New York: New York University Press, 245 pp
| Authors | Olga Tkach, Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Book Review: Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Care for the Visa: Maximising Mobility from Northwest Russia to the Schengen Area
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
Migration and the Search for Home: Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants' Everyday Lives.
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research |
“Now I Know Norway from Within”: <i>Boundary Work and Belonging in Au Pairs’ Narratives</i>
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Finding Oneself Abroad: <i>Au pairs’ strategies of self-positioning in hosting societies</i>
| Authors | Caterina Rohde-Abuba, Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Book Review: Au Pairs’ Lives in Global Context: Sisters or Servants? edited by Rosie Cox
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Gender & Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Borders of Desire: Gender and Sexuality at the Eastern Borders of Europe Borders of Desire: Gender and Sexuality at the Eastern Borders of Europe , by Elissa Helms and Tuija Pulkkinen, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, 181 p., (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5261-6521-3
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rhizomatic LGBTIQ+ Activism in St. Petersburg
| Authors | Riikka Taavetti, Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Fennica |
Cultural or Political Diaspora: Approach of the Russian Federation
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Book Title | Emigration and Diaspora Policies in the Age of Mobility | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
| Authors | Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
CULTURAL PATTERNS OF CLASS INEQUALITY IN THE REALM OF PAID DOMESTIC WORK IN RUSSIA
| Authors | Elena Zdravomyslova, Olga Tkach |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |