Ekaterina Vorobeva

Research Fellow / PhD candidate
Innovative Training Network (ITN) MARKETS (EU-MSCA grant)
Department of Politics and Economics

Room 3750
vorobeva@uni-bremen.de

 

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Current research project
 
Central Asian Migrant Entrepreneurs in Russia: Transnational Networks and Local Opportunity Structure (PhD dissertation)
 
Research interests

• Intercultural encounter in the business market
• Intercultural learning with the focus on business practices
• Migrant and minority entrepreneurship
• Human mobility and ethnic diversity

 
Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology – 2010-2014, Herzen Pedagogical State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Master’s specialization in Globalization, Migration and Development – 2016-2017, The Radboud University, the Netherlands (an exchange student)
• Master’s degree in Baltic Sea Region studies – 2015-2019, The University of Turku, Finland

 
Work experience 

• Early Stage Researcher, PhD student – since 10/2020, Research Centre for East European Studies, the University of Bremen, Germany
  • Research activities within ITN “Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environment and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (MARKETS)”
• Project Researcher - 01/2020 to 08/2020, The University of Turku, KONE Foundation, Finland
  • participation in collection of quantitative data on labour migrants
  • processing and analyzing the collected data, communicating results
• Research assistant - 10/2019 to 12/2019, The University of Turku, Finland
  • participation in collection of quantitative data on the island of Lesvos, Greece, in refugee camps Moria and Kara Tepe
  • processing and analyzing the collected data, communicating results 
• Research and project assistant - 09/2018 to 11/2018, People for Change Foundation, Malta
  • participation in collection of data on migrant entrepreneurship
  • co-authoring in writing reports on migrant entrepreneurship and radicalization
• Research assistant - 09/2017 to 06/2018, The University of Turku, Finland
  • processing and analyzing data on refugees from Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Italy, Greece and Finland
  • co-authoring in writing reports and articles on relevant topics 
• Teacher assistant - 09/2015 to 06/2016, The University of Turku, Finland
  • participating in the course classes
  • assisting students with course related tasks

 
Achievements 

Presentation "Black African entrepreneurs in Finland: Structural barriers" at the 20th Nordic Migration Research Conference, online, 11-14.01.2021.

Grant from the Turku Urban Research Programme for the Master’s thesis: “Black African Entrepreneurs in Finland: Structural Barriers” (2019).

Speaker at the conference “European Politics and Migration”, Krakow, Poland, 2019, on “Black African Female Entrepreneurs in Finland”.
 

Publications 

1.Vorobeva, E., and Dana, L.-P. (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic and migrant entrepreneurship: Responses to the market shock. Migration Letters, 18(4), 477–485. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i4.1400.

2.Vorobeva, E., and Dana, L.-P. (2021). Negative Racialization in the Business Market: The Case of African Entrepreneurs in Finland. Immigrant Entrepreneurs Series of SAGE Business Cases. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529764079 .

3. Dana L.-P., and Vorobeva, E. (2021). Understanding the Term ‘Minority Entrepreneurship’. In: Cooney T.M. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66603-3_2.

4.Jauhiainen, J., and Vorobeva, E. (2021). Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: Forms of capital approach. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2021.1964068, accepted for publication.

5. Jauhiainen, J., and Vorobeva, E. (2020). Asylum seekers and migrants in Lesvos, Greece, 2019-2020. University of Turku.

6. Vorobeva, E. (2020). Revision of Pull and Push Factors to Migrant Entrepreneurship. Siirtolaisuus/Migration, 46, 37-39.

7. Tedeschi, M., Vorobeva, E., and Jauhiainen, J. S. (2020). Transnationalism: Current debates and new perspectives. GeoJournal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10271-8.

8. Vorobeva, E. (2019). Intersectionality and Policy-Making: Structural Barriers to Entrepreneurship for Black African Females in Finland. Politeja, 16/(6)63, 139-151.

9. Jauhiainen, J., and Vorobeva, E. (2018). Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Jordan, 2017. University of Turku.

10. Hossain, M. A., and Vorobeva, E. (2018). International Migration and Development Debates: Evidences from Bangladesh. In: Environment and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Geographical Perspectives (Eds. H. Khatun, N. Ahmad, AQM Mahbub and H. Kabir), Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, 241-256.

11. Vorobeva, E. (2017). Ethnic diversity in the Northern Europe: Social implications. Herzen State University.