Evgeni Varshaver

Head of the Group


Email: varshavere@gmail.com

Education: 

Higher School of Economics - PhD in Sociology, 2016 

IDC - Hertzliya - MA in Government - Counter-Terrorism Track, 2010

Manchester University - Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences - MA in Sociology, 2009

International Academy of Business and Management - Specialist’s degree in Sociology, 2008


Profile in electronic scientific resources:

 

Teaching:

Ethnicity and migration in the modern world, Qualitative Methods in Sociology, Sociological Fieldwork, Social Structures of the City, Diasporas in Russia and Abroad: History and Modernity, Ethnicity and Migration in the Modern World, Ethnicity, Migration and Integration

 

Publications:

In English:

  1. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2023). Bazaar-Related Migrant Residential Concentration Areas in Post-Socialist Russian Cities. International Migration Review, OnlineFirst. [in English]
  2. Golovina, К., Pechurina, A., Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E. (2023). House, Home, and Homemaking in Post-Soviet Migratory Contexts: Insights from Research in Russia and Japan (Chapter 50). Handbook on Home and Migration, (ed.) P. Boccagni. (621–634). Edward Elgar Publishing. [in English]
  3. Varshaver, E. (2023). Integration of Migrants Through the Lens of a Constructivist Approach to Ethnicity. RUDN Journal of Political Science, 25(2), 377-396. [in English]
  4. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2022). Targeting on Social Networking Sites as Sampling Strategy for Online Migrant Surveys: The Challenge of Biases and Search for Possible Solutions. Migration Research in a Digitized World. (Eds.) Pötzschke, S., Rinken, S.. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. [in English]
  5. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2022). E-namus? Social networking sites and conservative norms of romantic relationships among second-generation migrants in Russia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(13), 3240-3258. [in English]
  6. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2021). “Homeland-Rooted” or Acquired in the Receiving Society: How Does the Composition of Migrants’ “Co-Ethnic” Ties Affect Their Patterns of Integration?. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 22, 347–368. [in English]
  7. Egorova, T., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2020). Formation of Immigrant Neighbourhoods in Sweden: a Case-Study of Rinkeby, Stockholm. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 13(7), 1112-1125. [in English]
  8. Varshaver, E. (2020). Migration Museum as a Dream and a Project. In (Eds.). Agapova, D.A., Khalikova, D.R.,Sinitsyna, O.V., Zhvitiashvili, N.Y., (Ed-in-Ch.) D.R. Khalikova, O.V. Sinitsyna. Migration: Revealing the Personal. Museum practices and recommendations for working on migration, mobility and diversity. Moscow: ICOM Russia. [in English]
  9. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2019). Youth with a Migrant Background: Are They Willing to Stay in Russia?. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 12(7), 1256-1281. [in English]
  10. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2019). Second Generation Migrants Aged 18–35 in Russia: Research Project Results. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (2(150)), 318-363. [in English]
  11. Varshaver, E., Rocheva A. (2018). Localized Migrant Communities in the Absence of Ethnic Neighbourhoods: A Glimpse into Moscow’s Ethnic Cafés. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8(2), 42-58. [in English]
  12. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E. (2017). Gender Dimension of Migration from Central Asia to the Russian Federation. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 32(2), 87-136. [in English]
  13. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2017). Bridging Science and Practice: Migrant Integration Events in Moscow Neighborhoods. Urban Studies and Practices, 2(1), 25-39. [in English]
  14. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2014). Migrant Communities in Moscow: Their Origins, Functionality, and Maintenance Mechanisms. Preprint. [in English]

In Russian:

  1. Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N., Gupalova, J., Kuznetsova, S. (2024). What Role do Soviet Nationalities Play in Regulatingthe Marital Behavior in Dagestan? Journal of Frontier Studies, (2), 98–133. [in Russian]
  2. Varshaver, E., Orlova A., Shulga, A. (2023). Documentary Constructivism as a Special Form of Constructivist Folk Sociology: Evidence from Dagestan. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, (6), 156–177. [in Russian]
  3. Bublikov, V., Varshaver, E., Stepanov, V. (2023). Deconstruction of Population Censuses: Comments and Considerations. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, (4), 22–242. [in Russian]
  4. Varshaver, E. (2022). Trapped in Double-Irrelevancy: (Re)-Production of Ethnicity in Interactions between Census-Takers and Their Respondents Based on Results of Observations during 2021 All-Russian Census in Dagestan. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, (4(170)), 199–221. [in Russian]
  5. Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N., Rocheva, A. (2022). Why and When Do Migrants in Russia Come to Homeownership and How Is It Related to Integration?. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (2(168)), 223-247. [in Russian]
  6. Varshaver, E., (ed.) (2022). On Ethnic Diversity in Modern Dagestan: Students' field trip collection of articles. Authors: M. Gutsunaev, A. Drozdova, E. Kozharinova, A. Kunina, A. Malinovskiy, V. Nazarov, A. Rakacheva, D. Stepanova. Moscow: HSE Publishing House. [in Russian]
  7. Varshaver, E. (2022). “Stop beating the dead primordial horse”: actual agendas in the constructivist research of ethnicity. The Russian Sociological Review, 21(3), 31-58. [in Russian]
  8. Ivanova, N., Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2022). What Migrants Do Economically Developed Countries Attract and How They Do It: Analysis of International Cases. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 15(6), 811-825. [in Russian]
  9. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2021). Factors and Mechanisms of the Formation of Migrant Residential Concentration Areas Around Markets. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (5(165)), 425-449. [in Russian]
  10. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N., Andreeva A. (2021). Migrants in Russian cities: settlement, concentration, integration. Moscow: Publishing House "Delo" RANEPA. 226 p. [in Russian]
  11. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2020). Vulnerable Groups in Disasters: Solidarity and Trust in Government as the Basis for Migrant Strategies in Russia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (6(160)), 488-511. [in Russian]
  12. Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N., Rocheva, A. (2020). Migrants in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey results. RANEPA. 81p. [in Russian]
  13. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E. (2020). Migration Intentions of Youth with and without Migrant Backgrounds: a Russian Case. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (3), 295-334. [in Russian]
  14. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N., Ermakova M. (2020). Residential Concentrations of Migrants in Russian Cities: Is There a Pattern?. The Russian Sociological Review, 19(2), 225-253. [in Russian]
  15. Andreeva A., Ivanova N., Varshaver E. (2021). Do Kotelniki Qualify as an Ethnic And Migrant Enclave? Case-Study of Residents’ Ethnic and Migration Origins in Kotelniki, Moscow’s Satellite City. Urban studies and practices, 5(4), 54-72. [in Russian]
  16. Ermakova M., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2020). Features of settlement and integration of migrants in Moscow and Moscow region. RUDN Journal of Sociology (Vestnik Rossiiskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Seriya: Sotsiologiya), 20(2), 363-381. [in Russian]
  17. Varshaver, E. (2020). Intercultural Events in Russia. Intercultural and interconfessional management: Theory and Practice. A Handbook. E. Varshaver, E. Idrisov, E. Markwart, E. Pain, A. Sitnikov, I. Starodubrovskaya. Editor: I. Starodubrovskaya. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Prospekt". P. 215-238. [in Russian]
  18. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Andreeva A., Ivanova, N. (2020). Migrants' settlement patterns in global cities and their determinants: Paris, Singapore, Sydney and Moscow. Part II. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (2), 457-485. [in Russian]
  19. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Andreeva A., Ivanova, N. (2019). Migrants' settlement patterns in global cities and their determinants: Paris, Singapore, Sydney and Moscow. Part I. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (6(154)), 479-504. [in Russian]
  20. Kazenin K., Kozlov V., Mitrofanova E., Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2019) The Birth Rate among Foreign Migrants in Russia and the Factors Affacting It (Analysis of Survey Date). The Bulletin of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. (1), 100-111. [in Russian]
  21. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2019). Second Generation Migrants Aged 18–35 in Russia: Research Project Results. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (2(150)), 318-363. [in Russian]
  22. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2019). Integration of Second-Generation Migrants from Transcaucasia and Central Asia in the Tyumen Region: Social, Linguistic and Identification Aspects. Vestnik Arheologii, Antropologii i Etnografii, (2(45)), 166-175. [in Russian]
  23. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2019). Integration of Second-Generation Migrants from Transcaucasia and Central Asia in the Tyumen Region: Educational Trajectories and Employment. Vestnik Arheologii, Antropologii i Etnografii, (1(44)), 136-145. [in Russian]
  24. Ivanova, N., Varshaver, E. (2018). Peculiarities of the Legal Status of Labor Migrants from the EAEU and other CIS Member States in Russia: a Comparative Analysis (Beginning). Migration Law, (3), 3-8. [in Russian]
  25. Ivanova, N., Varshaver, E. (2018). Peculiarities of the Legal Status of Labor Migrants from the EAEU and other CIS Member States in Russia: a Comparative Analysis (Final Part). Migration Law, (4), 9-16. [in Russian]
  26. Varshaver, E. (2017). Neurophysiology of Ethnicity (based on foreign literature). Social Psychology and Society, 8(4), 43-54. [in Russian]
  27. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2017). Second-Generation Migrants in Russia of the Age 18–30 Years Old: Characteristics of the Structural Integration. Social Policy and Sociology, 16(5), 63-72. [in Russian]
  28. Varshaver, E., Starodubrovskaya, I. (2017). Who Justifies Violence in Dagestan and Why? A Comparative Analysis of Value Profiles of Muslim Religious Groups in Dagestan. State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 35(3), 202-233. [in Russian]
  29. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2017). Integration of the Second Generation Migrants aged 18-30 in Moscow: First Results of the Research Project. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (6), 63-81. [in Russian]
  30. Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E., Ivanova, N. (2017). Playgrounds as Migrant Integration Spaces. Educational Studies Moscow, (2), 167-184. [in Russian]
  31. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2017). Migrant Integration on the Local Level: Results of an Academic and Practical Project. Sociological Studies, (5), 110-117. [in Russian]
  32. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2017). Information Behavior of Migrants from Central Asia under Changes in the Russian Migration Legislation. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (1), 182-195. [in Russian]
  33. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2016). Neighborhood Social Map as an Urban Research Tool. Urban Studies and Practices, (3), 31-52. [in Russian]
  34. Varshaver, E. (2016). Ethnic Boundaries in the Local Communities (PhD thesis). National Research University Higher School of Economics. [in Russian]
  35. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2016). Migrant Integration: What it is and What Role Does The State Play in its Implementation?. The Journal of Social Policy Studies, 14(3), 315-330. [in Russian]
  36. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2016). Migrant Integration on the Local Level: Experience of Russia and Other Countries. In S. Panarin (ed.), East in the East, in Russia and in the West cross-border migrations and diasporas (pp. 194-213). St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya. [in Russian]
  37. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2015). Peering into 'Ethnic' Community: Integration in Performance Differences 'Patriotic-Related' and 'National' Wheels (on the Example Migrants from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow). Social Policy and Sociology, 14(3), 24-37. [in Russian]
  38. Varshaver, E. (2015). Contact theory: Review. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, (5), 183-214. [in Russian]
  39. Varshaver, E., Kruglova, E. (2015). Coalitional Clinch vs. Islamic Order: The Market of Institutions Related to Dispute Resolution in Dagestan. Economic Policy, (3), 89-112. [in Russian]
  40. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2015). Methods of enhancing the effectiveness of existing models and practices of migrant integration. Preprint. [in Russian]
  41. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Ivanova, N. (2015). Manual for organizing intercultural events. Academia.edu. [in Russian]
  42. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2015). Manual for organizing a sociological study of a locality. Academia.edu. [in Russian]
  43. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2014). Café Communities as an Environment for The Ethnic Integration of Migrants in Moscow. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, 3(121), 104-114. [in Russian]
  44. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A. (2014). Migrant Communities in Moscow: Their Origins, Functionality, and Maintenance Mechanisms. New Literary Observer, 3(127). [in Russian]
  45. Kochkin, E., Rocheva, A., Varshaver, E. (2014). Ethnic Market of the Moscow Service Sector: Case of Kyrgyz Commercial Companies. Marketing Services, (4), 284-292. [in Russian]
  46. Varshaver E. (2014). Tarki-Karaman: Mechanism of a Social Conflict over Land in Daghestan. The Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, 5(123), 133-150. [in Russian]
  47. Varshaver, E., Rocheva, A., Kochkin, E., Kuldina, E. (2014). Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow: Results of a Quantitative Research on Integration Tracks. Preprint. [in Russian]
  48. Varshaver, E. (2014). Twenty Successful Events for Migrant Integration. Moscow Institute for Socio-Cultural Programs. [in Russian]