Researchers and PhD students
John Braidwood
Centre for for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
PhD Project on the cultural relations between the Chechs and Slovaks between 1918 and the present (supervisor: Dr. Piotr Kuhiwczak)
Bohdan Piasecki
Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
PhD Project on modern Polish poetry and its translation into English, AHRC funded (supervisor: Dr. Piotr Kuhiwczak)
Alice Szczepanikova
Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow
Sociology
RESEARCH CENTRE
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
PHD RESEARCH PROJECT
Examining three major aspects of forced migration and gender in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: (1) how refugees make use of various notions of gender to interpret and construct their lives in exile within the framework of their families, households and wider social networks? (2) how they are constructed and imagined as gendered actors at the level of state and nongovernmental institutions and in the legal and policy documents that shape conditions of their life in exile? (3) what implications these gendered constructions have for their acquisition and access to political, civil and social rights? More concretely, the research focuses on the situation of refugees from three former Soviet countries – Armenia, Belarus and Russia/Chechnya – living in the Czech Republic.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- 2006. Bringing life into the “states of exception”: Chechen asylum seekers in a Czech refugee camp. Studi Emigrazione, XLIII(162): 323-340.
- 2006, ‘Дороги из Австрии в Чечню не будет: История скитаний одной семьи’ [There will be no way from Austria to Chechnya: A story of one family’s journey]. Чеченское Oбщество Сегодня [Chechen Society Today] 2(3): 16-17. Available at
http://www.watchdog.cz/edit/uploaded/docs/ChOS_2_2006.pdf
- 2005. Gender Relations in a Refugee Camp: A Case of Chechens Seeking Asylum in the Czech Republic, Journal of Refugee Studies 18(3): 281-298.
- 2005. Беженство как вызов семейным устоям (чеченцы в чешском ‘центре размещения’) [Refugee experiences as a challenge to family relations: Chechens in the Czech refugee camp], Diasporas: Independent academic journal 1: 65-82.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Editor of the website Migration Online focused on migration processes in Central and Eastern Europe