Ksenia Golovina

My academic background includes training in Japanese Studies, complemented by a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Tokyo. My initial research, which focused on the dynamics of migration and marriage between women from Russia and Japanese men, was informed by an agency and structure perspective. This research led to the publication of my book in 2017, Russian Women in Japan: Migration, Marriage, and Life Crafting (Akashi Shoten, in Japanese). Since then, I have conducted research on a variety of topics, including the following recent ones:

-Migrant housing, with a focus on the transition from one house to another, approached from a formalist narratology perspective.
-Shared migrant housing and settlement, analyzed through the lens of structural anthropology.
-The experience of migrant housing and home, aiming to develop a framework for integration grounded in materiality.
-The embodied experience of migrant homes, explored from the perspective of affect.
-Transnationalism in migration (and its critique), alongside the concepts of connectedness and disconnectedness.
-Death in migration and the practices of caring for graves, examined within the framework of kinship studies.
-Transnational death and the digital practices of mourning.