Celebrate the launch of Olga Oleinikova’s latest book, Eastern European Migration to Australia: From Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine to Sydney and beyond.
Join us for an evening of inspiring talks with the author and guest speakers as they discuss new forms and paths of Eastern European migration to Australia since the 2000's and share stories about personal experiences of contemporary migration of Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechs to Australia.
Open to all UTS staff, students, researchers, members of the GLAM sector and members of the public.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, 22 August for catering purposes.
Event details
5:30pm Enjoy complimentary nibbles on arrival
6:00pm Author talk with Olga Oleinikova
6:15pm Panel discussion and Q&A
6:45pm Networking and discussion with the author
About the book
Eastern European Migration to Australia: From Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine to Sydney and beyond
This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Eastern European migration to Australia since the 2000's and provides updated trends of contemporary migration movements of Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechs to Australia. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new accelerated waves of Eastern European migration to Asia-Pacific, this book offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of East European mobility in the 21st century. A must-read for to students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of migration, sociology, political science and international relations.
About the author
Olga Oleinikova is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Social Impact Technologies and Democracy Research Hub (SITADHub) in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is named among Forbes’ Top 40 Global Ukrainians, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Asia and is a finalist for the Australia Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Future Leader Award. She is the author of Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes: Achiever or Survivor? Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes (Palgrave, 2020) and editor of Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics (Routledge, 2019).
Olga is founder and project director of the SITAD Visiting Fellowship Program - the first visiting fellowship program for Ukrainian ECRs and PhD/MA students in Australia. Olga is currently leading two research projects, working with the Sydney Democracy Network, WZB Berlin Social Science Research Center, and The University of Oxford. Both projects are mixed-method studies examining the challenges, performance and prospects for democracy in Europe and Ukraine.
