Publications

Kim, Viktoriya, Golovina, Ksenia, and Varvara Mukhina. “From Liminality of Marital Citizenship to Precarity of Denizenship in Japan: Female Migrants from Former Soviet States and Their Sense of Belonging.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2026.　 Check　

Golovina, Ksenia, Kim, Viktoriya, and Varvara Mukhina. “Integration of Russian-speaking Male Migrants in Japan: Exploring the Interplay of Immigration Regime, Marriage, and Gender.” Contemporary Japan, 2026.   Check　

Mukhina, Varvara. “What Makes Russians Become Japanese Citizens? Considering Naturalization as a Result of Migrants’ Decision-Making Process.” Journal of Immigration Policy Studies, 17, 2025.

Mukhina, Varvara. “Exit to Feel, Voice, and Act: Emotions and Actions of Russian Migrants Opposing the Invasion of Ukraine.” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 2023.  Check　

Mukhina, Varvara. “Under the Veil of Silence: Group-Based Emotions Experienced by Russian Immigrants in Japan who Disapprove of the Invasion of Ukraine.” Hakusan Journal of Anthropology, 26, 2023.Check

Golovina, Ksenia, and Varvara Mukhina. “The Image of the Desirable Foreign Worker in Recruiting Agencies’ Narratives: Exploring the Inhibiting Factors in Foreigners’ Employment in Japan” (in Japanese). Toyo University Journal of Sociology, 58(2), 2021.Check

Mukhina, Varvara. “Images of the Soviet Era among Contemporary Russian Youth: Findings from an Interview-Based Study” (in Japanese). Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, 53, 2019.  Check

Mukhina, Varvara, and Ksenia Golovina. “Labour Market Integration of Female Migrants in Japan: The Case of Russian-Speaking Women” (in Japanese). Annual Review of Multicultural Society Studies, 15, 2018. Check

Mukhina, Varvara. “Ethnic Policy and Belonging in Post-Soviet Russia: Negotiating the Boundaries between ‘Us’ and ‘Others’” (in Japanese). Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, 52, 2018. Check

Mukhina, Varvara. “The Concept of the ‘Near Abroad’ in Contemporary Russia: Between Geopolitical Concept and Everyday Usage” (in Japanese). Russian and East European Studies, 47, 2018. Check

Mukhina, Varvara, and Ksenia Golovina. “Overview of Contemporary Russian Diaspora: Defining Specific Features of Russian Immigrants in Japan” (in Japanese). Journal of Immigration Policy Studies, 9, 2017. Check

Mukhina, Varvara. “Changes in Russian Immigration Policy: Investigating the Meaning of the Latest Immigration Policy Amendment” (in Japanese). Journal of Immigration Policy Studies, 7, 2015.Check

Mukhina, Varvara. “Migration Policies and Cross-National Marriage in Japan: Routes to Settlement.” International Journal of Social and Cultural Studies, 6, 2013. Check 

“From Emotional Distress to Mobility: How Group-Based Emotions Shape Migration among Russian Migrants after the Invasion of Ukraine.” The Migration Conference 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia.

“Changing Roles of Migrants’ Digital Communities at Different Stages of Settlement: The Overview of the Russian-Speaking Community in Japan.” Asian Studies Conference Japan, 2025.

“Mobilization and Fragmentation in Times of Crisis: Russian-speaking Community in Japan.” Nordic Migration Research Conference, Bergen, Norway, 2024.

“Perpetrators’ Trauma: Emotional State of Russian Migrants who Disapprove of the Invasion of Ukraine.” The Migration Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 2023.