Svitlana Odynets

Bakgrund

Jag är migrationsforskare och socialantropolog med specialisering inom kvinnliga migration, transnationalism och feminism. Jag har disputerat med fokus på sociala identiteter och livsbanor hos ukrainska kvinnliga arbetskraftsinvandrare i Italien. Därefter har jag arbetat både som forskare och projektledare i flera internationella projekt med inriktning på transnationell migration, inklusive inom Horizon 2020.

Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina 2022 genomförde jag fältarbete i Sverige, Polen, Rumänien och Skottland, där jag intervjuade omkring 150 ukrainska flyktingar, beslutsfattare och representanter för civilsamhällesorganisationer.

Min forskning har publicerats i vetenskapliga tidskrifter såsom Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Borderland Studies och Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.

Utöver min akademiska karriär är jag även professionell journalist med över tio års erfarenhet av arbete för både ukrainska och internationella medier. För närvarande driver jag en forskningsblogg på Ukraina Moderna och deltar i olika publika evenemang för att presentera och diskutera min forskning.

Mellan 2020 och 2023 var jag även verksam som svensk tjänsteman.

Forskning

Peer review articles and book chapters
• Saara Koikkalainen, Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, Joni Virkkunen, Md Azmeary Ferdoush and Svitlana Odynets (under review) Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland, Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Oksana Shmulyar Gréen and Svitlana Odynets (forthcoming, 2026) Handling uncertainty of present and future: Ukrainian transnational families in Sweden and Romania strategizing their lives in protracted displacement, book manuscript European families facing hard times
• Svitlana Odynets and Oksana Shmulyar Gréen (forthcoming, 2026) Navigating Temporal Dissonance: Highly Educated Displaced Women from Ukraine and Their Encounters with the Swedish Welfare System After Russia’s Invasion on Ukraine, an open-access volume “Fragmented Lives: Uncertainties of War Displacement within and from Ukraine” with the German publishing house Transcript Verlag (https://www.transcript-publishing.com)
• Kathryn Cassidy, Svitlana Odynets and Maria Dubrova (forthcoming, 2026) Accommodating Alter-geopolitics: Debordering Romania and Poland after the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Journal of Borderland Studies
• Svitlana Odynets (2021) Keeping It in the Family: Rotating Chains in Women’s Transnational Care Work Between Italy and Ukraine in Ryndyk O, Suter B and Gunhild Odden (eds.) Migration to and from Welfare States, IMISCOE (Springer),https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/48235/9783030676155.pdf?sequence=1#page=44
• Svitlana Odynets (2020) Make yourself at home? Adaptation strategies of temporary migrants from Asian countries in Ukraine in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0117196820968901
• Lyubov Zhyznomirska and Svitlana Odynets (2018). Caught between East and West: Ukrainian migration in the 21st century’ in Anna Triandafyllidou (ed), Handbook on Migration and Globalisation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, https://www.academia.edu/36021051/Caught_between_East_and_West_Ukrainian_%20migration_in_the_21st_century
• Odynets, Svitlana (2018) Home without Walls, Walls without Home: Constructing Physical and Symbolic Transnational Locations in Ukrainian Women’s Migration to Italy. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. 10, 2 (Aug. 2018), 34-51, http://soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/701

Research reports
• Oksana Shmulyar Gréen and Svitlana Odynets (2024). Fleeing Russia’s War of Aggression in Transnational Europe: Reception of Displaced Ukrainians in Sweden. The Migration Studies Delegation, Ju 2013:17 – 2024. www.delmi.se
• Ihor Markov, Svitlana Odynets and Danylo Sudyn (2017). Ukraine and temporary migration in the European - Asian transnational space in P. Pitkänen et al. (eds), Characteristics of Temporary Migration in Asian European Transnational Social Spaces, 161-175. Dortrecht: Springer, http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319612577#aboutBook
• Svitlana Odynets (2015). Ukrainian migration to Italy in Country Report – Italy, ITHACA, Research Report 2/2015, https://www.researchgate.net/
• Svitlana Odynets, Chorniy P, Hodovanska O, Markov I, Sudyn D, Trofimova A, Zaremba G (2014). Flows and Patterns of Temporary Migration: Country Report from Ukraine in Pirkko Pitkänen and Mari Korpela (eds). Characteristics of temporary transnational migration (Collected Working Papers from the EURA-NET project), Tampere

Research commentaries
• Interview with Oksana Shmulyar Gréen and Svitlana Odynets on the main challenges of receiving people from Ukraine in Sweden (2024) https://www.delmi.se/en/news/interview-with-oksana-shmulyar-green-and-svitlana-odynets/
• Svitlana Odynets and Kathryn Cassidy (2024) Border and migration politics and the Kremlin’s hybrid war, https://ukandeu.ac.uk/border-and-migration-politics-and-the-kremlins-hybrid-war/
• Svitlana Odynets and Kathryn Cassidy (2024) Grassroots support and the future for Ukraine in Europe, https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/grassroots-support-and-the-future-for-ukraine-in-europe/
• Svitlana Odynets. Ukrainian Refugees in Scandinavia, or How to Talk About Migration Without Talking About It (2022), Commentary, Topos 6, pp. 31-36, https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/ukrainian-refugees-in-scandinavia-or-how-to-talk-about-migration-

Media Publications:
• Blogger at Ukraina Moderna: https://uamoderna.com/author/odynets/ (in Ukrainian)
• Svitlana Odynets (2023) City of Lions in the Year of War, Baltic Studies, 20 June, https://balticworlds.com/lviv-a-city-of-lions-in-the-year-of-war/
• Svitlana Odynets (2022) Ge ukrainare chans att bidra till samhället, Sydsvenskan, https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2022-08-08/ge-ukrainare-chans-att-bidra-till-samhallet (in Swedish)
• Svitlana Odynets (2022) Weapon, migration, NATO. How aggression against Ukraine changes Swedish policy, “Ukrainian Week”, https://tyzhden.ua/World/254821?fbclid=IwAR2y9o1Rt0GK53T2vIl0lZJVz0xx0OSmiya6 (in Ukrainian)
• Svitlana Odynets (2017) “Ukrainian migrations in global world: picnic on the side” (review of the book Collier Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) in KRYTYKA: International Review of books and ideas (in Ukrainian), https://krytyka.com/ua/articles/ukrayinski-migratsiyi-u-hlobalnomu-sviti-piknik-na-uzbichchi (in Ukrainian)

Undervisning

Ukrainian Catholic University
2025-ongoing Lviv, Ukraine
• A self-designed academic course"Ukrainian Migration in the Global World," for master's students, offered as part of the program between the Ukrainian Catholic University and the University of Nottingham, https://ucu.edu.ua/p/humaniora-masters/en/

Lecturer, Invisible University for Ukraine
2023 - 2024 Online
Two lectures on migration and belonging in November 2024, and on diaspora (together with Dr. Ivashchenko-Stadnyk) offered as part of a certificate program for Ukrainian students, whose studies have been affected by the Russian invasion in Ukraine

Lecturer, Lund University, SOL - Centre for Languages and Literature, September-October 2022
A teaching course “Translation in Public Sector” (in Swedish)

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Extra kontaktinformation

sv.odynets@gmail.com, 

+46 739 789 750