In Pursuit of the African Migrant Experience: HSE Doctoral Student Sheds Light on an Understudied Segment of the Moscow Population
At the recent seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, Isaac Olumayowa Oni, HSE doctoral student and lab research assistant, spoke about African migration to Russia. In an interview with HSE News Service, Isaac discussed his research and talked about what it’s like to study at HSE and live in Moscow.
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‘You Are Not Needed Here’: Sub-Saharan African Migrants’ Discriminatory Experiences of the Socio-Economic Environments in Russia
January 28, 2021, a graduate student, assistant researcher at ILSUR, Isaak Olumaeva Oni, presented the results of his research on aspects of African migration to Russia.
Dis/abling public sphere: transformation of public discourse around disability in today's Russia
On the 27th January 2021 Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Olga Verbilovich have presented a paper on "Dis/abling public sphere: transformation of public discourse around disability in today's Russia".
Interculturalism - Rhetoric vs Practice
On January 27, the third session of the Diversity Research Laboratory was held on the topic "Interculturalism: politics, ideology, everyday life."
Diversity Research Laboratory. 13 January – 3 March 2021
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, together with the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, is launching a course on the study of diversity in society.
Inclusion in a Modern Town: How to Make it Work
Inclusion is becoming more and more popular in society - both as a philosophical concept and as a way of working with communities, as a norm of a new ethics. This term is heard by everyone, but it is not always perceived in the same way by different participants in the process - people with disabilities, public organizers, administrators. On December 10 and 11, 2020, the OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation, which specializes in the development of inclusive culture in the city of Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Region, held an online conference “Inclusion in a modern small town: how to make it work?”.
Employees of the ILSIR participated in the conference "Social Dynamics. Inequalities, Integration, Mobility and Migration»
Conference “Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration” organized by the Budapest Center for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center of Excellence) took place on November 16-17 online. The purpose of the conference was to gain a clearer picture of social shifts and immobility in the post-millennium international context.
How Body Size Follows Social Changes in Arctic Generations: the Case of Western Siberia
June 18, 2020 at the on-line seminar of IL SIR, Andrey Kozlov the leading researcher of the laboratory, gave presentation ‘How Body Size Follows Social Changes in Arctic Generations: the Case of Western Siberia’. Researchers from Russia and Canada took part in the seminar. Discussants: Dr.Tracey Galloway (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga) and Prof.Elena Tarasenko (Higher School of Economics).
The Research about the Response to the Pandemic COVID-19 Families with People with Special Needs
Our Laboratory has joined an international research project on how Families with Children with Special Needs are coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic.