Natalia Zotova
Biographic Data
| ID | 170051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalia Zotova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zotova |
| SIGNATURE | ZOTOVA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5396-8304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
PrEP in the key population community
Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and cisgender female sex workers (FSW) are increasingly and disproportionately impacted by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, yet current PrEP care models in this region are not optimized for these communities. Limited data exist describing experiences and preferences of GBMSM and FSW with respect to accessing and using PrEP. We conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with GBMSM and FSW …
Attrition from Care and Barriers to PrEP Use Among Key Populations in Kinshasa, DRC
Female sex workers (FSW) and gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is increasingly available in African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but data on factors influencing PrEP use remain limited. This multiple methods study examined PrEP attrition patterns and barriers to engagement among FSW and MSM in Kinshasa, DRC, using programmatic …
Understanding depression and the PHQ-9 items among people living with HIV
People living with HIV (PLWH) are disproportionately affected by depression, which often remains underdiagnosed and untreated, negatively impacting quality of life and treatment outcomes. Low resource settings often lack clinical professionals to identify depression, therefore screening tools such as the PHQ-9 allow for broader depression screening. This qualitative study among PLWH in Yaoundé Cameroon aimed to a) explore local understandings of …
Techniques for Increasing Educational Motivation and the Need to Assess Students’ Knowledge
Worry, work, discrimination
The Russian Federation is a major immigrant-receiving nation and hosts large immigrant populations from post-Soviet countries including Central Asia. However, there is yet little research on their health needs, and especially on mental health of immigrant women. This study uses qualitative data from 72 interviews with women from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan conducted in two large cities in Central Russia, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, from…
Rethinking remittance
The World Bank notes that officially recorded remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, including $529 billion to low- and middle-income countries. While these figures are mind-boggling and potentially render the act of migration as a clear decision, they do not communicate the social challenges that result for movers and nonmovers around migration and remitting. Our article is organized to better understand the complexities that surround remitta…
Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Russia remains the destination of choice for Tajik migrants. Its migration policies have profound implications for migrants’ legal status and capacity to remit and return home. This article draws on ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and explores how the enforcement of Russia’s immigration laws affects Tajik migrants and their families. By 2016, over 300,000 Tajik migrants were issued entry bars ( zapret na v’ezd ) for three or more y…
Class dynamics in Tajikistan
This study explores the formation of the urban middle class in Tajikistan, a low‐income country in which large outmigration has developed over the past decades. Our study uses a Bourdieusian framework to note the ways international migration creates opportunities for class in the context of socio‐political constraints, which hinder upward social mobility of Tajikistan's population. Drawing from ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, our s…
Religion and Mental Health among Central Asian Muslim Immigrants in Chicago Metropolitan Area
Migration creates opportunities but also bring challenges that cause stress and affect mental health of migrants. Stress among Muslim immigrants can be intensified by experiences of discrimination. This study addressed the meaning and role of religion as a mediator of stress and mental health among Central Asian Muslim immigrants. This paper explored whether religious coping worked for recent Muslim immigrants in the US, and how religion buffered…
Migrant women's economic success in Russia
This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the outcomes of labor migration by focusing on the effects of migrant legal status on the economic and perceptual measures of migration success. To study the effects of legal status, we use a sample of Central Asian migrant women who work in Russia and of their native counterparts who occupy the same positions on the labor market. Similar to the studies in the developed settings, we find…
Financial and emotional support in close personal ties among Central Asian migrant women in Russia
Female Migration into Russia from Central Asian Countries
Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research
Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this paper, we repor
Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research
Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this paper, we repor
Migrant women's economic success in Russia
This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the outcomes of labor migration by focusing on the effects of migrant legal status on the economic and perceptual measures of migration success. To study the effects of legal status, we use a sample of Central Asian migrant women who work in Russia and of their native counterparts who occupy the same positions on the labor market. Similar to the studies in the developed settings, we find…
Class dynamics in Tajikistan
This study explores the formation of the urban middle class in Tajikistan, a low‐income country in which large outmigration has developed over the past decades. Our study uses a Bourdieusian framework to note the ways international migration creates opportunities for class in the context of socio‐political constraints, which hinder upward social mobility of Tajikistan's population. Drawing from ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, our s…
Rethinking remittance
The World Bank notes that officially recorded remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, including $529 billion to low- and middle-income countries. While these figures are mind-boggling and potentially render the act of migration as a clear decision, they do not communicate the social challenges that result for movers and nonmovers around migration and remitting. Our article is organized to better understand the complexities that surround remitta…
Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Russia remains the destination of choice for Tajik migrants. Its migration policies have profound implications for migrants’ legal status and capacity to remit and return home. This article draws on ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and explores how the enforcement of Russia’s immigration laws affects Tajik migrants and their families. By 2016, over 300,000 Tajik migrants were issued entry bars ( zapret na v’ezd ) for three or more y…
Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research
Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this paper, we repor
Female Migration into Russia from Central Asian Countries
Financial and emotional support in close personal ties among Central Asian migrant women in Russia
Religion and Mental Health among Central Asian Muslim Immigrants in Chicago Metropolitan Area
Migration creates opportunities but also bring challenges that cause stress and affect mental health of migrants. Stress among Muslim immigrants can be intensified by experiences of discrimination. This study addressed the meaning and role of religion as a mediator of stress and mental health among Central Asian Muslim immigrants. This paper explored whether religious coping worked for recent Muslim immigrants in the US, and how religion buffered…
Migrant women's economic success in Russia
This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the outcomes of labor migration by focusing on the effects of migrant legal status on the economic and perceptual measures of migration success. To study the effects of legal status, we use a sample of Central Asian migrant women who work in Russia and of their native counterparts who occupy the same positions on the labor market. Similar to the studies in the developed settings, we find…
Class dynamics in Tajikistan
This study explores the formation of the urban middle class in Tajikistan, a low‐income country in which large outmigration has developed over the past decades. Our study uses a Bourdieusian framework to note the ways international migration creates opportunities for class in the context of socio‐political constraints, which hinder upward social mobility of Tajikistan's population. Drawing from ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, our s…
Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Russia remains the destination of choice for Tajik migrants. Its migration policies have profound implications for migrants’ legal status and capacity to remit and return home. This article draws on ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and explores how the enforcement of Russia’s immigration laws affects Tajik migrants and their families. By 2016, over 300,000 Tajik migrants were issued entry bars ( zapret na v’ezd ) for three or more y…
Worry, work, discrimination
The Russian Federation is a major immigrant-receiving nation and hosts large immigrant populations from post-Soviet countries including Central Asia. However, there is yet little research on their health needs, and especially on mental health of immigrant women. This study uses qualitative data from 72 interviews with women from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan conducted in two large cities in Central Russia, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, from…
Rethinking remittance
The World Bank notes that officially recorded remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, including $529 billion to low- and middle-income countries. While these figures are mind-boggling and potentially render the act of migration as a clear decision, they do not communicate the social challenges that result for movers and nonmovers around migration and remitting. Our article is organized to better understand the complexities that surround remitta…
Techniques for Increasing Educational Motivation and the Need to Assess Students’ Knowledge
Understanding depression and the PHQ-9 items among people living with HIV
People living with HIV (PLWH) are disproportionately affected by depression, which often remains underdiagnosed and untreated, negatively impacting quality of life and treatment outcomes. Low resource settings often lack clinical professionals to identify depression, therefore screening tools such as the PHQ-9 allow for broader depression screening. This qualitative study among PLWH in Yaoundé Cameroon aimed to a) explore local understandings of …
PrEP in the key population community
Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and cisgender female sex workers (FSW) are increasingly and disproportionately impacted by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, yet current PrEP care models in this region are not optimized for these communities. Limited data exist describing experiences and preferences of GBMSM and FSW with respect to accessing and using PrEP. We conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with GBMSM and FSW …
Attrition from Care and Barriers to PrEP Use Among Key Populations in Kinshasa, DRC
Female sex workers (FSW) and gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is increasingly available in African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but data on factors influencing PrEP use remain limited. This multiple methods study examined PrEP attrition patterns and barriers to engagement among FSW and MSM in Kinshasa, DRC, using programmatic …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)