Main research areas
- Migration and transnational ties
- Care relationships and intimacy
- Globalisation
Current research
My research project focuses on the experiences of migrants in Sweden in maintaining long-distance care relationships with their stay-behind elderly parents. I aim to examine the differences in the extent to which migrants are able to engage in various care practices, and how this depends on structural political, economic and globalisation factors. Additionally, my study aims to explore how social divisions of gender, class and ethnicity and their intersections inform these care relationships. Ukrainian migrants in Sweden form an empirical case for this study.
Publications
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Materialising Care across Borders: Sent Things and Family Ties between Sweden and Ukraine
Lyudmyla Khrenova, Kathy Burrell
(2021) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 11 p.250-264
Journal articleConversations on Degrowth: Exploring the Slow Movement
Lyudmyla Khrenova, Zhanara Yessenova, Riya Raphael
(2017)
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Background
My academic background is in political science (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine), global studies (Lund university) and sociology (Gothenburg university). I have worked in research projects on Ukrainian as well as Syrian migrants in Sweden.