Dr Dina Bolokan is a sociologist specialising in migration and mobility studies, intersectionality, and social theory. She is a fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation and a postdoctoral researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her current research examines conscientious objection, asylum, and masculinity in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Previously, Dr Bolokan worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel and in the Economic Geography and Globalisation Research Group at the Institute of Geography, University of Münster.

In her dissertation, entitled “Everyday Coloniality: The Political Economy of Labour Migration within the Agricultural Sector in Europe”, she explored how ethnicised/racialised and gendered underclasses in agriculture are regulated within regimes of im_mobility, and what this precarious mode of existence means for workers and their communities.

Her most recent contributions have focused on epistemic and ontic injustice in asylum law, inter-imperial violence, and postcolonial masculinities, including work published in Critical Sociology.