Ekaterina Vorobeva

Ekaterina Vorobeva is a doctoral candidate at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences and an EU researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies, the University of Bremen. She did her BA in Cultural Anthropology at the Herzen State University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and her MA in Baltic Sea Region studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Prior to her PhD, she worked in several research projects on forced migration, international migration, and migrant entrepreneurship in Finland and Malta. Ekaterina’s book chapters and scientific articles were published in International Migration, GeoJournal, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as well as in edited volumes of Palgrave Macmillan and Springer. Ekaterina’s current research interests include social and economic integration of immigrants, migrant and minority entrepreneurship, transnationalism, and postnationalism. Her doctoral dissertation is devoted to a hugely overlooked topic of migrant entrepreneurship in Russia.