Emma Rimpiläinen

Emma Rimpiläinen is a social anthropologist and researcher based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Her work centers on the experiences of people displaced by the conflict in Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, with extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Ukraine and Russia.

Her research interests include Social Anthropology, Migration Studies, Displacement Studies, Labour Relations, Trade Unions, and Post-Socialist Politics. She investigates how displaced populations adapt to their new circumstances and respond to state policies, with a particular focus on the interplay between displacement and nation-building in Ukraine.

Her recent publications analyze media representations of Donbas displacement in Ukrainian and Russian state media, revealing narratives that frame displaced persons as victims, villains, or geopolitical tools. She also examines the role of internal displacement in nation-building processes in Ukraine, contributing to broader understandings of conflict-induced migration in post-Soviet contexts.

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She is affiliated with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), a leading research center at the University of Oxford focused on migration and refugee issues, and the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.