Ekaterina Demintseva

Ekaterina Demintseva and Nikita Mkrtchyan (Institute of Demography, HSE) conducted a student expedition "The New Migration Reality of the Kamchatka region: Issues of Identity, Problems of Adaptation and Employment of Migrants" as part of the "Rediscovering Russia " project. During the expedition, expert interviews were conducted with representatives of the administration of the Kamchatka region, heads of diasporas and religious leaders, as well as more than 30 in-depth interviews with labor migrants from Central Asia

The summer conference was held at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 23-26 June, 2022. The conference was organized jointly with the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)

Ekaterina Demintseva, head of the Center for Qualitative Social Policy Research, Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, made a presentation "Migration Policy in Russia: Challenges and Prospects" at the Russian Red Cross Summer School. 

“The idea for this special issue of the journal emerged several years ago, during my first year working on a project focused on the integration of migrants from Central Asia in the urban space of Moscow. 

She taught a course on Sociology of migration and collaborated with her French colleagues on a project on migrant children in schools.

The Institute of Social Policy experts prepared an overview of international practices for supporting the economy and population while fighting against the coronavirus pandemic in different countries of the world.

Ekaterina Demintseva made a presentation "Emigration of Highly Qualified Professionals from Russia in the 2010s: Why Are They Leaving Russia Today?” at the panel “New Trends of Post-Soviet Migration”. Dmitriy Oparin made a presentation “New Leadership, Old Ritual: Possession and Exorcism in the Russian Muslim Migration Context” at the panel “The ‘Official’ and the ‘Everyday’: Variety of Muslim Beliefs, Practices and Discourses in Russia”.

In August and September 2010, Ekaterina Demintseva and Dmitry Oparin conducted field research in Irkutsk exploring the migration situation in the city.

On July 3-5, 2019, Ekaterina Demintseva presented her research on children of migrants in Russian schools at the AREF Congress (Actualité de la Recherche en Éducation et en Formation) at the University of Bordeaux.

On June 26-28, 2019, Ekaterina Demitseva, Head of the Center for Qualitative Social Policy Research, Institute for Social Policy, presented her research on the topic of  “Children of Migrants in Russian schools. Constructing Ethnic Boundaries around School Space” at the 16th Annual IMISCOE Conference “Understanding International Migration in the 21st Century: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches” in Malmö University, Sweden.

Ekaterina Demintseva (Institute of Social Policy, Higher School of Economics), Daniel Kashnitsky (Institute of Social Policy, Higher School of Economics), Dmitriy Oparin (Moscow State Universtiy, Institute of Social Policy of the Higher School of Economics) presented their recent researches at the International Conference "Urban inequalities vs. Urban inclusion: migration, identity and public space" focused on ethnographic analysis of various aspects of urban inequality, such as unemployment, informal employment, homelessness, access to essential services, intolerance, conflict, digital divide.

On April 23 Demintseva E.B. took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "How do "migrant schools" arise and who are the "children of migrants"?".

Ekaterina Demintseva (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Daniel Kashnitsky (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Dmitriy Oparin (MSU, Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy) presented their recent researches at the International Colloquium "Anthropology of Migration: New Research in Russia"

On January 31, 2019 was held a session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" organized by the Higher School of Economics the Institute of Social Policy. Ekaterina Demintseva(Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Daniel Kashnitsky (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Dmitriy Oparin (MSU, Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy) presented their recent research“Emigration of highly qualified professionals from Russia in the 2010s:why are they leaving Russia today?”

In 2019 Institute for Education and Institute for Social Policy will start the implementation of the “Education and Socialization of Children with Migration Status” project. The regional branch of UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia requested the project.

Bhavna Dave (Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London) presented her recent research "Securitization and Neoliberal Logic in Russia’s Labour Migration Governance"

In July and August 2018, Ekaterina Demintseva and Dmitry Oparin conducted field research in Tomsk exploring the migration situation in the city. This study was funded by a Russian Science Foundation grant “The use and creation of urban infrastructures by migrants in Siberian regional centres”.

On June 19, 2018, Ekaterina Demintseva, director of the Center for Qualitative Research of Social Policy, made a presentation "Migrant children in Russian schools: between ethnic and social issues" at the International Conference of The International Education and Diversity Network (Le Réseau International Éducation et Diversité - RIED), Genève.

On June 5-9, 2018 a seminar for young researchers from Germany and Russia "Dialogue between Russian and German scientific schools. Topics, methods, theories, approaches" was held at the Center for Qualitative Research of the Institute for Social Policy of the Higher School of Economics.

On April 24, 2018 Ekaterina Ermakova, Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a talk on "Disciplinary practices and boundaries of the public in Cairo through the eyes of a migrant" at the regular "Migration studies" seminar organized by the Institute of Social Policy at the Higher School of Economics.

Participants of the roundtable formulated proposals for the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation regarding the adaptation of migrant children in Russian schools

Ekaterina Demintseva, director of the Center for Qualitative Research in Social Policy, presented her study of the ways urban infrastructure is created and used by by migrants from Central Asia in Moscow.

Ekaterina Demintseva, director of the Centre for Qualitative Social Policy Research and Dmitry Oparin, research fellow at the same center, attended the meeting and presented some results of their research.

On November, 13, 2017, Ekaterina Demintseva presented her study of the ways urban infrastructure is created and used by by migrants from Central Asia in Moscow at the seminar of the Center for the Study of Russia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe (CERCEC), EHESS, Paris.

On November 9, 2017, Ekaterina Demintseva gave a talk on "City and migrants. The use of urban infrastructure by migrants in Moscow" at the University of Nanterre (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre). Presentation featured the findings from her fieldwork that illuminate such issues as the ways migrants understand  the city, the extent to which they are able to use its social infrastructure, as well as to create that of their own.

On the 26-27th of October 2017 the conference “Migration: new trends and directions” took place in the Higher School of Economics. The conference was co-organized by the Higher School of Economics, Oxfam in the Russian Federation and Centre for Franco-Russian Research in Moscow (CEFR). Among 240 participants of the conference there were migration specialists from academia, Russian and international civil society organizations, international organizations and governmental institutions. More than 40 research reports, based on empirical studies and covering a wide range of issues pertaining migration and migration policy were presented within the 2 days of the conference. The conference became a multi-disciplinary platform for discussions on methodology of migration research, studies of transnationalism, issues of integration and adaptation of migrants as well as economic, social and cultural aspects of migration.

The head of the Center for Qualitative Research for Social Policy Ekaterina Demintseva spoke about her research on migrants in Western and post-Soviet cities at the seminar for young researchers from Germany and Russia "Russian-speaking migrants in Germany: Space exploration and transformation processes. Dialogue between Russian and German scientific schools", Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabruck University, October 8-11, 2017.

On September 21, 2017, Ekaterina Demintseva, Head of the Center for Qualitative Research for Social Policy, delivered a presentation on "Migrants' Children in Schools" at the III International Conference "Integration of migrants as a governance issue: the European and Russian contexts" organized by the Russian Council for International Affairs jointly with the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation.

On July, 7, 2017, Ekaterina Demintseva, Head of the Center for Qualitative Research of Social Policy, spoke about "Informal Health Care Practices: The Case of Central Asian Migrants in Moscow" at the International Conference on the "The Informal and the Formal in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Insight." The conference was held at the University of Peloponnese, Corinth (July 7-9, 2017). Organizers of the conference: International Urban Symposium - IUS; Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA); University of Peloponnese, Corinth.

of migrants coming to Moscow from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have a higher education.