Economic and Social Anthropology of China and Post-Soviet Eurasia, Cross-Border Mobility and Migration, Informal Economies and Trade Networks, Digital Infrastructures and Institutional Change, Commodification in Agricultural and Forest Processing Sectors, China–Russia Trade Relations

China; Post-Soviet Eurasia; Siberia; Central Asia

Iuliia Koreshkova joins the department as a lecturer and researcher in the SNF project “Dealing with Institutional Volatility,” where she examines agri-food trade relations and institutional change at the intersection of local markets, cross-border exchange, and transnational supply chains, with a particular focus on China and Russia connections. She studied Area Studies at Moscow State Linguistic University and is currently completing her dissertation in anthropology at Palacký University Olomouc. Her work is situated in economic and social anthropology and focuses on China and Chinese presence across post-Soviet Eurasia. Her research interests include cross-border mobility, informal economies, digital infrastructures, and commodification processes in agricultural and forest-processing sectors. She works with multi-sited ethnography and STS-informed approaches and has conducted long-term fieldwork in Eastern Siberia as well as research in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Her fieldwork has involved Chinese migrants, Central Asian migrants, and small-scale rural producers. Previously, she contributed to projects on migrant integration, ethnic markets, and the Sinophone Borderlands, including Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges at Palacký University Olomouc.

Book Chapters

Koreshkova Y.O. WeChat as a Lifestyle: Social Network Tool of the Chinese Migrants in Russia. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 11(11), 2018: 1816–1823.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Scopus / Web of Science)

Koreshkova, Y.O. Chinese Greenhouses: An Echo of the Soviet Past (Siberian Cases). Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 1, 2021: 145–162.

Grigorichev K., Koreshkova I. ‘Chinese’ or ‘Local’? The Heterogeneous Identity of the Agrarian Assemblage in the Siberian Suburbs. Inner Asia 24, 2022: 31–52.

Timoshkin et al. (incl. Koreshkova). Search Engines as a Mechanism for Constructing Boundaries of “Imagined Communities”. Politia, 2(109), 2023: 55–76.

Koreshkova I.O. The “Material Turn” in the Informal Economy: China’s Presence in Siberian Agriculture. Ojkumena. Regional Researches, 3, 2023: 51–62.

Koreshkova I., Ivanov K. Possibility or Barrier? Digitalization and the Adaptation of Student Migrants (Siberia). Italian Sociological Review, 14(10S), 2024: 603–624.

Ivanov K.A., Koreshkova I.O. Students on the “Web”: Social Media as an Actor in Assembling “Network Spaces” of Educational Migrants in Irkutsk. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 5, 2024: 136-156.

Kelemen P., Koreshkova I., Vaseková V., Raimerová K. Distinguishing the Circular Economy. In: KNOWCON 2024 Conference Proceedings, 2024: 54–60.

Timoshkin et al. (incl. Koreshkova). “Us” and “Them”: Internal Migrants in the Perception of Siberian Urban Residents. Regionology, 33(2), 2025: 316–334.

Koreshkova et al. Translocal Networks of Internal Migrants as a Factor of Socio-Economic Convergence (Irkutsk/Krasnoyarsk). Ekonomicheskaya Sotsiologiya, 26(4), 2025: 152–175.