Olga
Tkach
Olga Tkach is a sociologist and grant-funded researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD from the European University at St. Petersburg (2008) and the Title of Docent from the University of Eastern Finland (2018). She is an Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research. Tkach is now part of the project Life-breaking and Life-making: A research project on social reproduction and survival in times of collapse project (LIFEMAKE, Kone Foundation, 2023-2026). She has conducted ethnographic research in Abkhazia, Finland, Georgia, Norway, Russia and Scotland (UK), participated in more than 20 international projects and led six projects, including the most recent one, The Big Layered Cake: towards the conceptualization of neighborness (Kone Foundation, 2019-2023). Her research interests include migration; mobility inequalities; feminist and migration studies of home; housing and neighbor relations. She co-edited Making Bodies, Persons and Families. Normalising Reproductive Technologies in Russia, Switzerland and Germany (LIT Verlag, 2009) and four thematic special issues. Her work has appeared in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization; Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research; Nordic Journal of Migration Research; Social Inclusion; and Space and Culture.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4493 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0464-2305 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Olga_Tkach3 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Gender relations
- Labour markets and employment
- Conflict, war and violence
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Cultural norms and ties
- Globalisation and (post)colonialism
- Transnational ties
- Family size and structure
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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Non-UN Territories
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UN Countries
Roles
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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 |