Svitlana Odynets is a migration scholar who has been researching Ukrainian migration to Europe since 2012. Over the past decade, she has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with Ukrainian migrants, refugees, and transnational families in a variety of settings across Europe.
She is currently affiliated with Mid Sweden University and Vilnius University and is a researcher in a NordForsk-funded project on transnational care in migrant families. Within this project, she is responsible for fieldwork and the analysis of the experiences of people from Ukraine in Lithuania and Sweden. She also teaches two master's-level courses at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.
Her research focuses on migration, transnational families and care, displacement, mobility, and knowledge production. Her two most recent projects were “Debordering Europe through the 2022 Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Analysis of Responses in the UK, Poland and Romania” (Northumbria University, UK, 2023–2025) and “Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Transnational Europe – Between Personal Agency, Civil Society and the State: A Case of the Swedish Reception” (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Since 2023, she has conducted approximately 150 interviews with displaced people from Ukraine, policymakers, and representatives of civil society organisations, while continuing regular research visits and ethnographic fieldwork in Ukraine.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1538 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5575-1018 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/svitlana-odynets-75a689163/ | |
| Researcher ID | W-9827-2018 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Qualitative research
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Mid Sweden University
University, Östersund , Sweden
Research Fellow -
University of Gothenburg
University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Researcher -
National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Other, Lviv, Ukraine
Research
Keeping It in the Family: Rotating Chains in Women’s Transnational Care Work Between Italy and Ukraine
| Authors | Svitlana Odynets |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Migration to and from Welfare States | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Not really at home: Adaptation strategies of Asian migrants in Ukraine
| Authors | Svitlana Odynets |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
HOME WITHOUT WALLS, WALLS WITHOUT HOME: CONSTRUCTING PHYSICAL AND SYMBOLIC TRANSNATIONAL LOCATIONS IN UKRAINIAN WOMEN'S MIGRATION TO ITALY
| Authors | Svitlana Odynets |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ukraine and Temporary Migration in the European-Asian Transnational Space
| Authors | Ihor Markov, Svitlana Odynets, Danylo Sudyn |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Caught between East and West: Ukrainian migration in the 21st century
| Authors | Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Svitlana Odynets |
| Year | 2018 |
Suggested Research
Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland
| Authors | Saara Koikkalainen, Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, Joni Virkkunen, ... |
| Year | 2026 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |