Tkach, Olga

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....

Roles

  • 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
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1 Journal Article

Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates

Authors Olga Tkach
Year 2023
Journal Name Space and Culture
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3 Journal Article

Book Review of Chouliaraki, Lilie and Georgiou, Myria 2022. The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power. New York: New York University Press, 245 pp

Authors Olga Tkach, Olga Tkach
Year 2023
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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4 Journal Article

Book Review: Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia

Authors Olga Tkach
Year 2022
Journal Name International Migration Review
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5 Journal Article

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
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6 Journal Article

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
7 Journal Article

“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
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8 Journal Article

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
9 Journal Article

Book Review: Au Pairs’ Lives in Global Context: Sisters or Servants? edited by Rosie Cox

Authors Olga Tkach
Year 2016
Journal Name Gender &amp; Society
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10 Journal Article

Rhizomatic LGBTIQ+ Activism in St. Petersburg

Authors Riikka Taavetti, Olga Tkach
Year 2023
Journal Name Ethnologia Fennica
12 Journal Article

Cultural or Political Diaspora: Approach of the Russian Federation

Authors Olga Tkach
Book Title Emigration and Diaspora Policies in the Age of Mobility
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13 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

Authors Olga Tkach
Year 2015
Journal Name Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research
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1 Journal Article

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
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2 Journal Article
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