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Principal Investigator

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), “Perpetrators’ Trauma: Emotions of Russian Migrants Opposing the Invasion of Ukraine,” 2024–2028.Check 

Sophia University Special Research Promotion Grant, “Challenges of Labour Market Integration among Foreign Women: The Case of Long-Term Russian-Speaking Residents,” 2016–2017.

Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant, Japan Science Society, “Professional Skills and Employment Conditions of Russian-speaking Migrants in Japan,” 2015–2016.

• Cross-National Marriages in Japan: History, Contemporary Trends, and Challenges (2007). [Book]

• Kim, V., Golovina, K., & Mukhina, V. 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  

• Mukhina, V. What Makes Russians Become Japanese Citizens? Considering Naturalization as a Result of Migrants’ Decision-Making Process. Journal of Migration Policy Studies, 2025.

• Golovina, K., & Mukhina, V. Workplace Experiences of Russian-Speaking Women in Japan: Victimhood Narrated. In Russian as a Transnational Language, 2023. Check

• Mukhina, V. Investigating Dimensions of Cross-National Marriages: A Case of Russian-Speaking Wives in Japan. In Immigration and Settlement, 2012. Check

• Russia and the Former Soviet States: Human Mobility after the Collapse of a State (forthcoming, in Japanese)

• Nostalgia for the Socialist Era in Eastern Europe and Russia (2020) .  In New European Studies. Sophia University Press, 2020.　[in Japanese]. Check　

• Ethnic Policy and Belonging in Post-Soviet Russia: Negotiating the Boundaries between “Us” and “Others” (2018) [in Japanese].Check

• The Concept of the “Near Abroad” in Contemporary Russia: Between Geopolitical Concept and Everyday Category (2018) [in Japanese]. Check

•    Changes in Russian Immigration Policy: Investigating the Meaning of the Latest Immigration Policy Amendment  (2015) [in Japanese]. Check

•   Mukhina, V. 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, V. Under the Veil of Silence: Group-Based Emotions Experienced by Russian Immigrants in Japan who Disapprove of the Invasion of Ukraine. Hakusan Anthropology, 2023. Check

• Mukhina, V. Psychological Responses of Russian Migrants to the Invasion of Ukraine: Group-Based Emotions and Belonging among Members of a Perceived Perpetrator Group. Sophia Journal of European Studies, 2024. [in Japanese]