Research focus
- Migration and belonging(s)
- Work cultures, economic values, social relations
- Gender and family life
- Socialism and post-socialist transformations
- Knowledge production and decolonisation
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S. Methoden der Kulturanthropologie/Europäischen Ethnologie (Winter)
Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer -
Ü. Ethnographische und kulturhistorische Forschung
Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer -
Ü. Fachwissenschaftliche Spezialisierung: Fachveranstaltung
Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer; Dr. Britta Ohm
WiSe 2024/25
Biography
Alina Jašina-Schäfer studied Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow and International Relations at the Central European University in Budapest and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. During her doctoral studies, Alina conducted comparative research on lived citizenship and belonging, with particular focus on Russian speakers’ practices in the borderland regions of Estonia and Kazakhstan. Her monograph Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands was published by Lexington Books in 2021. From October 2020 until July 2023, she worked as a coordinator and a researcher in the project “Soviet Ambivalence” at the BKGE in Oldenburg. Since April 2023, Alina is a post-doctoral researcher in Cultural Studies/European Ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In her current research project, she is exploring the changing systems of value around human worth in the context of migration and how these systems affect sexuality, bodies, and genders in work cultures.