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Personal profile
Overview
Dr Elena Borisova is an ESRC post-doctoral fellow at the department of Social Anthropology. She is working on migration, (im)mobility, and citizenship in Eurasia. Her research engages with the imaginative and moral aspects of migration in Tajikistan, and covers the questions of morality, personhood, modernity, kinship, care, and gender. Elena has published her work in English and Russian in the main anthropological and regional journals. Currently she is working on the book manuscript titled 'Paradoxes of Migration in post-Soviet Tajikistan' to be submitted to the UCL University Press.
Biography
Elena completed her PhD at the University of Manchester having previously studied at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia where she was part of the interdisciplinary project ‘Transnational and Translocal Aspects of Migration in Contemporary Russia’.
Qualifications
2021 PhD Social Anthropology University of Manchester
2015 MA (cum laude) Anthropology and Ethnology European University at St. Petersburg
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Language choices, future imaginaries, and the lived hierarchy of languages in post-industrial Tajikistan
Borisova, E., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Routledge handbook on the anthropology of Central Asia. Reeves, M. & Féaux de la Croix, J. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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"Our traditions will kill us!": Negotiating Marriage Celebrations in the Face of Legal Regulation of Tradition in Tajikistan
Borisova, E., 15 Apr 2021, In: Oriente Moderno. 100, p. 147-171Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Book review. Mobilities, boundaries, and travelling ideas: rethinking translocality beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus, ed. Stephan-Emmerich, M. and Ph. Schroeder, 2018
Borisova, E., 2020, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. N.S., 26, p. 899-901Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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The limits of strategic citizenship: Affective engagements with Russian passports in the context of migration from Tajikistan
Borisova, E., 20 Nov 2020, In: Social Anthropology/Anthrpologie Sociale. 28, 4, p. 827-842 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
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ESRC Festival of Social Sciences
Elena Borisova (Chair) & Sebastien Bachelet (Chair)
1 Nov 2021 → 30 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Press/Media
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New Russian citizens from Central Asia face uncertainty over Ukraine war
21/10/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media