@misc{Amelina, author = {Amelina, Anna}, title = {After the reflexive turn in migration studies: Towards the doing migration approach}, series = {Population, Space and Place}, volume = {27(2021)}, journal = {Population, Space and Place}, number = {1}, issn = {1544-8444}, doi = {10.1002/psp.2368}, abstract = {What processes transform (im)mobile individuals into 'migrants' and geographic movements across political-territorial borders into 'migration'? Addressing this question, the article develops the doing migration approach that combines socio constructivist, praxeological and the sociology of knowledge and performativity perspectives. 'Doing migration' starts with the processes of social attribution that separate between 'migrants' and 'nonmigrants' and that are embedded into institutional, organisational and interactional routines which generate unique social order(s) of migration. Illustrating these conceptual ideas, the article provides insights into the elements of the contemporary European order of 'migration'. The institutional routines contribute to the emergence of the European migration regime that includes narratives of economisation, securitisation and humanitarisation. The organisational routines of European migration order realise bordering, surveillance and othering contributing to the disciplining effects on those defined as 'migrants'. Furthermore, the routines of daily face-to-face interactions generate various microforms of 'migration' by stigmatisation, while also giving the potential to resist the social attribution as 'migrant'.}, language = {en} } @misc{AmelinaMolitorSchaeferetal., author = {Amelina, Anna and Molitor, Verena and Sch{\"a}fer, Jana and Vasilache, Andreas and Zimenkova, Tatiana}, title = {Vulnerable (im)mobilities between imperial legacies and colonial logics of war}, series = {Mobilities}, volume = {21}, journal = {Mobilities}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1745-0101}, doi = {10.1080/17450101.2025.2605054}, pages = {1 -- 17}, abstract = {The article conceptualizes war-related mobilities and immobilities during Russia's war against Ukraine as shaped by two interconnected dynamics: cross-border solidarity and entanglement between Ukraine and Europe, and cross-border disentanglement of both from Russia's authoritarian political context. Building on mobility studies, the article argues that these frameworks gain analytical depth when combined with critical refugee and migration studies. The editorial proposes four key directions to expand mobility studies: (i) the notion of 'entangled (im)mobilities': highlighting temporal and spatial interdependencies between mobility and immobility in times of war; (ii) empire-sensitive approaches: treating post-Soviet spaces as postcolonial contexts shaped by imperial legacies; (iii) intersectional vulnerability: examining how vulnerability is produced through overlapping forms of marginalization; (iv) reflexive knowledge production: interrogating how war shapes epistemologies and research practices. Together, these perspectives enable a more nuanced understanding of war-induced (im)mobility dynamics, collective suffering, and selective immobilization. The article concludes with an overview of the contributions in the special issue.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchaeferAmelina, author = {Sch{\"a}fer, Jana and Amelina, Anna}, title = {Gendered and sexualized violence on the move : unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership}, series = {Mobilities}, volume = {21}, journal = {Mobilities}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1745-0101}, doi = {10.1080/17450101.2025.2532393}, pages = {1 -- 17}, abstract = {Contemporary discourses of the Russian Federation reproduce images of militarized heterosexual masculinity and frame its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This war encouraged the large-scale displacement and caused Ukrainian citizens' horrible experiences of gendered and sexualized violence. Relying on the secondary data, the article studies these war-torn forms of gendered and sexualized violence as framed by the military coercion taking place in three different realms: in Ukraine, on the route to the Russian Federation, and on the route to the EU. First, the article introduces the imperiality-sensitive ideas with the goal to interpret the nexus of embodied violence and war-torn state-led (im)mobilization strategies as articulations of post-Soviet imperial membership. Second, it specifies the concept of politics and policies of (sociospatial) (im)mobilization to address the ways in which (state) actors coercively channel movement by relying on the carceral apparatus. Third, the article delineates Russian ethnic dominance, anti-Westernism, neo-Stalinist elements, and heteronormative-patriarchal organization as four dimensions of post-Soviet membership and relates them to RF's war-related discourses, politics, and policies. The subsequent empirical section zooms into the forms of gendered and sexualized violence (in Ukraine, on the route to the Russian Federation and to the EU) as embodied practices of post-Soviet membership.}, language = {en} }