Publications and Media

Peer-reviewed Articles

Nugumanova, K. (2025). Micromobilising Emotion: How Feminist Anti-War Resistance Builds Affective Infrastructure in Exile. Communist and Post-Communist Studies.

Nugumanova, K. (2023). ‘Great, Great Sorrow and Eternal Silence’: An Experiment in Sociological Dream Interpretation after the 24th of February 2022. The February Journal, (01-02), 63-103 (EN, RU).

Abstract

The article is devoted to reflecting on silence and speaking in the dreams of people in Russia after the 24th of February 2022. Our two-stage analysis of dream narratives and dreamers’ comments on them uncovers several key topics related to speaking and silence. Interpreting them with the apparatus of sociology, we conclude that these dreams provide a space for restoring agency that had been lost in real life.

Non-Peer-reviewed-Articles

Nugumanova, K. (2024).Men’s Words, Women’s Work: Exploring the Reverse Gender Gap in Post-2022 Russian Emigration. Russian Opposition in Exile, Part 1: Internal Heterogeneity, 10(316), 13. DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000692533

Reports

Kamalov E., Nugumanova K., Sergeeva I. (2025, March). On the Move: Mobility, Integration, and Dynamics of Russian Emigration in 2022-2024.

Kamalov E., Nugumanova K., Sergeeva Iю (2025). From Russia to Latin America: Integration, Challenges, and Aspirations of Russian Post-2022 Emigrants.

Nugumanova K.(2024, May) Mapping and gathering Russian artists and cultural workers in exile.

Kamalov E., Sergeeva I., Zavadskaya M., Nugumanova K., Kostenko V. (2024, Jan.). Полтора года спустя: прогресс и барьеры в интеграции российских эмигрантов. Аналитический отчет по третьей волне опроса проекта OutRush (One and a Half Years Later: Progress and Barriers in the Integration of Russian Emigrants. Analytical Report Based on the Third Wave of the OutRush Survey) (RU)

Publications in Media

Nugumanova K. How do you sleep during the war?. (EN), Как тебе спится во время войны? (RU), Posle Media, 23 March, 2023.

Nugumanova K. «Приснился Путин». Что сны времен войны рассказывают нам о реальности. (‘I had a dream about Putin’. What war-time dreams tell us about reality) Republic., 8 April 2023 (RU, English version available on request)

Working Papers

Reverse Gender Gap in Transnational Activism: War-Driven Political Engagement Among Russian Post-2022 Emigrants. Co-authored with E. Kamalov and I. Sergeeva.

Abstract

How does exile shape political activism, and how is gender associated with migrants’ engagement with homeland politics? Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, significant numbers of Russians have fled their country, seeking physical safety, moral distance from the regime at war, and new avenues to voice dissent. Although feminist anti-war movements have gained substantial media visibility, scholarly attention to gendered political remittances in the context of political emigration remains limited. Utilizing data from the [the name of the survey is hidden to protect anonymity] panel survey of 2,700 respondents across more than 70 countries—including Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of the Asia-Pacific—we analyze political participation among Russian wartime migrants: individuals who, unlike those remaining in Russia, can openly express dissent and mobilize abroad. We uncover a “reverse gender gap” in transnational political activism: Russian migrant women demonstrate substantially higher levels of political and civic engagement than men, despite facing greater economic insecurity and emotional vulnerability. To investigate the mechanisms behind this gap, we employ regression analysis and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Contrary to conventional explanations, standard predictors such as political interest, institutional trust, and economic or social hardship do not account for these gender differences. Instead, emotional responses to the war—particularly feelings of collective responsibility for its consequences and a drive for reparative action—emerge as key drivers. Our study challenges prevailing assumptions that migrant women are less politically active due to structural or social constraints. We show that emotional and moral factors can critically shape gendered patterns of political engagement across borders.

Destination Preferences in Secondary Migration Among Politically Induced Migrants from Authoritarian States: Evidence from Conjoint Experiment, with Kamalov and Sergeeva

The Gendered Opportunity Structure of Exile: How Host-Country Contexts Shape Migrant Political Participation

Two Percent of Trust: Methodological Innovations for Retaining Fearful Respondents in Panel Surveys, with Kamalov and Sergeeva

New Russian Migration to Latin America: Mobile Middle Classes, Flight from Illiberalism, and the Formation of New Urban Communities, with Svetlana Ruseishvili, Emil Kamalov, and Ivetta Sergeeva

Public Speaking

Participant of International online conference “In the footsteps of emigrants: in search of a new world”. (Po sledam emigrantov: v poiskah novogo mira), Academic Bridges, Kovcheg, Science at Risk, in Russian, 23-25 June 2023). War doesn’t have a woman’s face? Political behaviour and civic engagement of Russian post-war migrants: the gender dimension from the OutRush Longitudinal Study.

Guest speaker for the popular science lectures in one of St Petersburg’s cultural spaces on fiction and documentary film. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2022.

Guest speaker for the public lecture at the summer school GENDER-LIKBEZ 4.0. European University at St Petersburg, 21 April, 2023. The lecture focused on the difference between female and male political and civic activism among Russian migrants.

Выборы: что это было и будет ли это еще? (Elections: What Was That, and Will It Happen Again?). Политика Заново, issue 1, 2021 (Political vlog).

Interviews and Podcasts

«Люди, которые живут в страхе, видят очень реалистичные сны» (“People who live in fear tend to have very realistic dreams”)

Invited guest on the radio ‘SBS Русский’. Double Cancel. Российские работники культуры в изгнании (“Double Cancel: Russian Cultural Workers in Exile”), 12 Feb., 2025.

Invited guest on the podcast “What happened”. Что о россиянах говорят их сны? (“What Do Russians’ Dreams Say About Them?”). Meduza, 2 Jan., 2024.

«Уехавшие россияне более феминистски настроены»: социологи из проекта OutRush — о новой волне российской эмиграции. (“Russians Who Left Are More Feminist-Minded’: Sociologists from the OutRush Project on the New Wave of Russian Emigration”), Sigma, 15 Sept., 2023.

«Кому-то снилось, что дыхание стало платным». Что социологи узнали из 900 снов россиян после 24 февраля. (“‘Someone Dreamed That Breathing Had Become Paid’: What Sociologists Learned from 900 Dreams of Russians After February 24”), Paper , 30 Nov., 2022.

Студентка ЕУ Каролина Нугуманова рассказала об обучении на программе «Социальные институты и практики». (European University Student Karolina Nugumanova Spoke About Studying in the ‘Social Institutions and Practices’ Program) European University at Saint Petersbirg, 18 March, 2021.

References & Acknowledgements

‘Anya, Wake Up! They Started a War!’ Mireille Juchau, (4 Feb. 2025).

A Year and a Half in Exile: Progress and Obstacles in the Integration of Russian Migrants Sergeeva, I., Kamalov, E. (15 Jan. 2024).

Voice after Exit? Exploring Civic Activism among Russian Migrant Communities in Eurasia after February 24, 2022.Zavadskaya, M., Sergeeva, I., & Kamalov, E. (23 Dec. 2023). https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3dnsv

Dreaming Under Russian Terror. Raimondo Lanza, 27 June 2023.

Six Months in Exile: A New Life of Russian Emigrants. Kamalov, Emil, Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, and Veronica Kostenko. SocArXiv, 20 May, 2023.

«Шульман снится чаще, чем Кадыров». Как студентки-социологи изучают сны россиян после 24 февраля (Shulman Appears in Dreams More Often Than Kadyrov’: How Female Sociology Students Study Russians’ Dreams After February 24), Paper, 8 April 2022.