Alexia Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexia Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7688-0109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mothers in Migration: Kinship, Care, and African Asylum Seekers in Postsocialist Russia
This essay examines Congolese women’s efforts to navigate the asylum system on the edge of Europe and asks how women are forging futures for their children, even as states circumscribe the forms of intimacy, kinship, and reproduction they can enact. Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Moscow among women asylum seekers, I present portraits of women’s efforts to sustain kinship ties and care for children, sometimes sustainin…
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and 'acts of citizenship' in Russia
With the intensified flow of refugees seeking asylum across Europe in recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the encounter between non-citizens and citizens. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia (2015–2019) among non-citizens, including Congolese asylum-seekers, this article examines how Congolese women foster affective ties as a means of creating a sense of belonging in a largely unwelcoming…
Noncitizens and Spaces of Reprieve in Putin's Russia
“Other Mothers,” Migration, and a Transnational Nurturing Nexus
Based on thirteen months of nonconsecutive ethnographic fieldwork (2001–11) among women labor migrants in Istanbul and their families in southern Moldova, this essay is framed by a critique of the forms of nurturing that are often portrayed as normative in discussions of transnational mobility. Patricia Hill Collins’s foundational work on othermothering and her call for feminist scholarship to “shift the center” informs the analysis of three wome…
Citizenship, Belonging, and Moldovan Migrants in Post-Soviet Russia
Drawing on ethnographic research among transnational Moldovan households in Moscow, this essay considers how ideals of belonging, assertions of historically inflected rights, and aspirations for mobility are all part of the everyday practice of citizenship. Mobile subjects encountering increasingly restrictive post-Soviet citizenship regimes often recall incorporation into a greater historical polity than their current passports would suggest. Th…
Intimate circuits: Modernity, migration and marriage among post-Soviet women in Turkey
The study of migration too often ignores the ways that labour migrants' emotional entanglements and complicated personal relationships factor into their experiences of being people on the move. In examining post‐Soviet migrant women's relationships with Turkish men and the ways these are regulated in Turkey, in this article I consider how intimate practices of marriage and performances of ‘love’ have emerged as key aspects of transnational mobili…
Emotion Work, Shame, and Post-Soviet Women Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Ideals of Gender and Labor in a Global Economy
Drawing on ethnographic research among Russian women traders or "shuttle traders" (chelnoki), I examine discourses on shame as a type of emotion work and consider links to ideal gender roles among Russian women entrepreneurs. In a post-Soviet era increasingly shaped by transnational mobility, as well as by a persistent legacy of Soviet sensibilities, a focus on emotion among women traders provides an ideal lens for considering what travels betwee…
Gray, Patty A: The Predicament of Chukotka’s Indigenous Movement
Anthropos , Seite 258 - 259
Longing for the Kollektiv: Gender, Power, and Residential Schools in Central Siberia
Interpretations of post-Soviet subjectivities have tended to emphasize the ways in which subjects experience these with a sense of liberation from a monolithic socialist state; however, local responses to post-Soviet forms of power have varied widely. In the case of indigenous Siberians in the 1990s, an older generation of Evenk women expressed positive feelings about their experience as students in the Soviet-era residential schools that continu…
Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State
The Work of Culture in Uncertain Times: Conversations in the Russian Far East
Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba. Jill Forshee. Honolulu: University of Hawai'iPress,2001.vii. 265 pp.,maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Authenticating Tradition: Material Culture, Youth and Belonging in Central Siberia
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols. Caroline Humphrey , Urgunge Onon
Entrepreneurialism in Poland and Hungary
One of the most fascinating and least understood developments in Eastern Europe has been the explosive growth of private enterprises. This type of economic activity is not new in Eastern Europe. Although these enterprises were officially seen as obsolete “residues” from the previous non-socialist economic formation and, as such, destined to disappear, since the end of WWII various forms of legal, semi-legal, and illegal activities have survived a…
Longing for the Kollektiv: Gender, Power, and Residential Schools in Central Siberia
Interpretations of post-Soviet subjectivities have tended to emphasize the ways in which subjects experience these with a sense of liberation from a monolithic socialist state; however, local responses to post-Soviet forms of power have varied widely. In the case of indigenous Siberians in the 1990s, an older generation of Evenk women expressed positive feelings about their experience as students in the Soviet-era residential schools that continu…
Intimate circuits: Modernity, migration and marriage among post-Soviet women in Turkey
The study of migration too often ignores the ways that labour migrants' emotional entanglements and complicated personal relationships factor into their experiences of being people on the move. In examining post‐Soviet migrant women's relationships with Turkish men and the ways these are regulated in Turkey, in this article I consider how intimate practices of marriage and performances of ‘love’ have emerged as key aspects of transnational mobili…
Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State
Emotion Work, Shame, and Post-Soviet Women Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Ideals of Gender and Labor in a Global Economy
Drawing on ethnographic research among Russian women traders or "shuttle traders" (chelnoki), I examine discourses on shame as a type of emotion work and consider links to ideal gender roles among Russian women entrepreneurs. In a post-Soviet era increasingly shaped by transnational mobility, as well as by a persistent legacy of Soviet sensibilities, a focus on emotion among women traders provides an ideal lens for considering what travels betwee…
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and 'acts of citizenship' in Russia
With the intensified flow of refugees seeking asylum across Europe in recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the encounter between non-citizens and citizens. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia (2015–2019) among non-citizens, including Congolese asylum-seekers, this article examines how Congolese women foster affective ties as a means of creating a sense of belonging in a largely unwelcoming…
Citizenship, Belonging, and Moldovan Migrants in Post-Soviet Russia
Drawing on ethnographic research among transnational Moldovan households in Moscow, this essay considers how ideals of belonging, assertions of historically inflected rights, and aspirations for mobility are all part of the everyday practice of citizenship. Mobile subjects encountering increasingly restrictive post-Soviet citizenship regimes often recall incorporation into a greater historical polity than their current passports would suggest. Th…
Authenticating Tradition: Material Culture, Youth and Belonging in Central Siberia
Entrepreneurialism in Poland and Hungary
One of the most fascinating and least understood developments in Eastern Europe has been the explosive growth of private enterprises. This type of economic activity is not new in Eastern Europe. Although these enterprises were officially seen as obsolete “residues” from the previous non-socialist economic formation and, as such, destined to disappear, since the end of WWII various forms of legal, semi-legal, and illegal activities have survived a…
Entrepreneurialism in Poland and Hungary
One of the most fascinating and least understood developments in Eastern Europe has been the explosive growth of private enterprises. This type of economic activity is not new in Eastern Europe. Although these enterprises were officially seen as obsolete “residues” from the previous non-socialist economic formation and, as such, destined to disappear, since the end of WWII various forms of legal, semi-legal, and illegal activities have survived a…
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols. Caroline Humphrey , Urgunge Onon
Authenticating Tradition: Material Culture, Youth and Belonging in Central Siberia
The Work of Culture in Uncertain Times: Conversations in the Russian Far East
Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba. Jill Forshee. Honolulu: University of Hawai'iPress,2001.vii. 265 pp.,maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State
Longing for the Kollektiv: Gender, Power, and Residential Schools in Central Siberia
Interpretations of post-Soviet subjectivities have tended to emphasize the ways in which subjects experience these with a sense of liberation from a monolithic socialist state; however, local responses to post-Soviet forms of power have varied widely. In the case of indigenous Siberians in the 1990s, an older generation of Evenk women expressed positive feelings about their experience as students in the Soviet-era residential schools that continu…
Gray, Patty A: The Predicament of Chukotka’s Indigenous Movement
Anthropos , Seite 258 - 259
Intimate circuits: Modernity, migration and marriage among post-Soviet women in Turkey
The study of migration too often ignores the ways that labour migrants' emotional entanglements and complicated personal relationships factor into their experiences of being people on the move. In examining post‐Soviet migrant women's relationships with Turkish men and the ways these are regulated in Turkey, in this article I consider how intimate practices of marriage and performances of ‘love’ have emerged as key aspects of transnational mobili…
Emotion Work, Shame, and Post-Soviet Women Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Ideals of Gender and Labor in a Global Economy
Drawing on ethnographic research among Russian women traders or "shuttle traders" (chelnoki), I examine discourses on shame as a type of emotion work and consider links to ideal gender roles among Russian women entrepreneurs. In a post-Soviet era increasingly shaped by transnational mobility, as well as by a persistent legacy of Soviet sensibilities, a focus on emotion among women traders provides an ideal lens for considering what travels betwee…
Citizenship, Belonging, and Moldovan Migrants in Post-Soviet Russia
Drawing on ethnographic research among transnational Moldovan households in Moscow, this essay considers how ideals of belonging, assertions of historically inflected rights, and aspirations for mobility are all part of the everyday practice of citizenship. Mobile subjects encountering increasingly restrictive post-Soviet citizenship regimes often recall incorporation into a greater historical polity than their current passports would suggest. Th…
“Other Mothers,” Migration, and a Transnational Nurturing Nexus
Based on thirteen months of nonconsecutive ethnographic fieldwork (2001–11) among women labor migrants in Istanbul and their families in southern Moldova, this essay is framed by a critique of the forms of nurturing that are often portrayed as normative in discussions of transnational mobility. Patricia Hill Collins’s foundational work on othermothering and her call for feminist scholarship to “shift the center” informs the analysis of three wome…
Noncitizens and Spaces of Reprieve in Putin's Russia
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and 'acts of citizenship' in Russia
With the intensified flow of refugees seeking asylum across Europe in recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the encounter between non-citizens and citizens. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia (2015–2019) among non-citizens, including Congolese asylum-seekers, this article examines how Congolese women foster affective ties as a means of creating a sense of belonging in a largely unwelcoming…
Mothers in Migration: Kinship, Care, and African Asylum Seekers in Postsocialist Russia
This essay examines Congolese women’s efforts to navigate the asylum system on the edge of Europe and asks how women are forging futures for their children, even as states circumscribe the forms of intimacy, kinship, and reproduction they can enact. Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Moscow among women asylum seekers, I present portraits of women’s efforts to sustain kinship ties and care for children, sometimes sustainin…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works)