Dr. Alina Jašina-Schäfer

Research associate, BA student advising

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

 

  1. Einführungsveranstaltung für alle Studienanfänger*innen im BA Kulturanthropologie
    Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer; Sandra Lamneck
  2. MA HS. Aktuelle Themen und Perspektiven der Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde: Disparate Europes: Coloniality of Power, Hierarchies, and Marginal Perspectives from the East
    Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer
  3. S. Kulturanthropologie/Europäischen Ethnologie aus vergleichender Perspektive: Einführung in die Migrationsforschung 
    Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer
  4. SLS. Begleitende Lektüre
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi; Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer; PD Dr. Christina Niem; Eva-Maria Walther
  5. SLS. Begleitende Lektüre II
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi; Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer; PD Dr. Christina Niem; Eva-Maria Walther
  6. Ü. Fachwissenschaftliche Spezialisierung: Fachveranstaltung
    Instructor: Dr. Alina Jasina-Schäfer; Dr. Britta Ohm

SoSe 2025

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.