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Alina Khelashvili

head of the Cedos research department

Research interests:

migration, cultural globalization, national and ethnic identities, collective memory

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Bachelor of Sociology at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (2018). Master of Sociology at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (2020).

Student of the PhD program in sociology at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (2020 - now).

In 2022-2023, she worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki, studying the situation of Ukrainian forced migrants in Finland, their ways of moving, socio-cultural adaptation and further plans.

In 2020-2021, she participated in studies of social risks and the impact on society of reforms introduced in Ukraine, in particular, land reform and restructuring of state enterprises, projects financed by the World Bank.

In 2019, she was a data analyst on forcibly displaced persons at the International Organization for Migration. She also has experience in marketing research and in research of small and medium-sized business in Ukraine.