Short-Term Visitor
Kseniya Homel-Ficenes is a doctoral candidate in Sociology (Institute of Applied Social Science, University of Warsaw). She is also an associate member of the Center of Migration Research. In 2018 - 2022 she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Public Affairs. Her PhD research is about female migrant agency and self-organisational practices. Kseniya focuses on gender aspects of organisational patterns, female empowerment, social action and networking. She is also involved into the research of Belarusian diaspora activities and two research projects on migration infrastructure.
Articles:
Kseniya Homel, Agency and Social Relations in the Search for a Better Life: Female Migrant Entrepreneurs in Poland;
Marta Jaroszewicz, Magdalena Lesińska, Kseniya Homel, The rise of a new transnational political nation: the Belarusian diaspora and its leaders after the 2020 protests;
Kseniya Homel, Marta Jaroszewicz, Magdalena Lesińska, New permanent residents? Belarusians in Poland after 2020.
Research focus/fields of interest: female migrant entrepreneurship, migrant self-organisation, diaspora, migration policy.
Core disciplines: sociology.
