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Dr. Anna-Liisa Heusala is a political scientist who works as a university lecturer in the University of Helsinki. She was a fellow in the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies (2012-2017) and holds the title of Docent in the University of Helsinki and in the Finnish National Defence University. Her research focuses on public administration, the rule of law and legal culture, and comprehensive security . She first came to the Aleksanteri Institute in 1998, and has been a visiting researcher in the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, special advisor in the Ministry of Justice and a researcher in the Police University College. Her works include publications in Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Review of Central and East European Law and Journal on Baltic Security. Profile in TUHAT research database Contact: |
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Dr. Rustam Urinboyev holds a position of a research fellow at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. He is a Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at the Aleksanteri Insitute in 2018-2019 and holds the title of Docent in the University of Helsinki. His main research interests focus on state-society relations, pre-Soviet (Islamic) traditional governance structures in Central Asia, corruption and legal pluralism, law and society in Central Asia, and migration governance in post-Soviet societies. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in post-Soviet Uzbekistan where his doctoral thesis examined the interlinkages between traditional governance structures and political stability. Rustam’s current research focuses on the everyday life and socio-legal integration of Central Asian migrant workers in Moscow, Russia, specifically investigating how migrants negotiate and maneuver around Russian legal system (e.g. police, immigration officials, border guards) and informal structures (e.g. intermediaries, protection rackets). Contact: |
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Dr. Kaarina Aitamurto holds a position of a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. In 2017 she became an adjunct professor (docent) in religion studies at the University of Helsinki. Her doctoral dissertation on the study of religion analysed Russian contemporary Paganism and nationalism. Aitamurto has participated in the EU funded project on violence migrant women in Finland and the EU. At the moment, her research interests focus on Muslim minorities in ethnically Russian areas, the rise of Islamophobia and migrants in Russia. She is co-editor of the book Migrant Workers in Russia: Global Challenges of the Shadow Economy in Societal Transformation. Profile in TUHAT research database Contact: |
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Dr. Sherzod Eraliev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. He defended his PhD thesis on Russia’s policies vis-à-vis labour migrants from Central Asia at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2018. Sherzod’s research interests include state migration policies, migration regimes, skilled migration, migration and religion, everyday migrant practices, etc. Contact:
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