Publications

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Refereed Papers

Golovina, Ksenia. 2026. “Kinning through the ‘House in Kirinosawa’: How Migrants Craft Togetherness, Relatedness, and Belonging Across Time.” Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138126144181

Golovina, Ksenia, Viktoriya Kim, and Varvara Mukhina. 2026. “Integration of Russian-speaking Male Migrants in Japan: Exploring the Interplay of Immigration Regime, Marriage, and Gender.” Contemporary Japan, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2026.2627712

Kim, Viktoriya, Ksenia Golovina, and Varvara Mukhina. 2026. “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, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2026.2629027

Golovina, Ksenia. 2025. “The Immigrant Portal: Memory and War.” Anthropology and Humanism 50 (2): e70046. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70046

Golovina, Ksenia. 2025. “Migrant Art as Embodied and Relational Homemaking: Integrating Oneself in Japan through Sensory Materiality.” Journal of Material Culture 30 (3): 285–308. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835251361737

Golovina, Ksenia. 2025. “‘The Doll Wants to Breathe’: Russian-Speaking Migrant Women’s Practice of Wearing Japanese Kimonos.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 26 (4): 300–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2025.2514627

Docot, Dada, and Ksenia Golovina. 2025. “Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 26 (4): 272–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2025.2509145

Golovina, Ksenia, and Mariia Ermilova. 2024. “Making Waves and Grids through Drawings: A Visual Methodology for Migrant Homes, Housing, and Moving-Home Trajectories.” Collaborative Anthropologies 15 (1–2): 75–101.  https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2022.a936634

Golovina, Ksenia. 2023. “Soil Within Us: An Autopedology of Migrant Family History and Mourning through the Medium of Soil.” Ethnographic Edge 6 (2): 63–81. https://doi.org/10.24135/ee.v6i2.265

Golovina, Ksenia. 2023. “‘The House with the Red Roof:’ A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a ‘Society with Houses.’” Housing, Theory and Society 40 (4): 530–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2226146

Golovina, Ksenia. 2023. “Introduction: Situating Russian-speaking Migrants in Japan.” Hakusan Review of Anthropology 26: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.34428/00014073

Golovina, Ksenia. 2023. "Cross-border Migrants and Material Objects: Towards Normalizing the State of Disconnectedness." Hakusan Review of Anthropology 26: 45–72. https://doi.org/10.34428/00014075

Golovina, Ksenia. 2022. “Moving House in Migrant Narratives: The Morphology of Housing Pathways from an Anthropological Perspective.” Housing Studies 39 (2): 547–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2057932

Golovina, Ksenia. 2021. “Nine Circles of Goodness―Consumer Goods in the Lives of Russian-speaking Migrants in Japan―. Journal of Cultural Anthropology 21: 77–102. https://doi.org/10.32262/wsca.21.0_77

Golovina, Ksenia. 2020. “Walking, Cleaning, and 'Kinning': Material Practice of Grave-Caring among Russian-Speaking Migrants in Japan.” Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 21 (1): 315–56. https://doi.org/10.14890/jrca.21.1_315

Golovina, Ksenia, and Kiyomi Doi. 2020. “Modes of Human Engagement with Materiality: Potentialities of Access to Things.” Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 21 (1): 271–290. https://doi.org/10.14890/jrca.21.1_271

Golovina, Ksenia. 2019. “Skin-to-skin with the House: Senses and Affect in the Relationship of Migrant Russian Women in Japan with Their Homes.” Asian Anthropology 18 (3): 170–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2019.1628422

Golovina, Ksenia. 2018. “Daruma Meets Domovoi and Then Some Yoga: Russians in Japan and the Religious-Spiritual Materiality of Migrant Living.” Japanese Religions 43 (1–2): 145–167. https://doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.43.1-2.145

Golovina, Ksenia. 2018. “Russian Migrants in Japan and Their Japanese Homes.” Issues of Japanology 7: 588–601.

Golovina, Ksenia. 2018. “Procuring, Crafting, and Sensing: Affect and Material Practices of Russian Women in Japan.” Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Istoriya 63 (2): 488–505. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.211

Golovina, Ksenia. 2018. “Gender Contract in Online Commercials in Japan: A Critical Investigation of the Contemporary Discourse on the Work-Life Balance.” Russian Sociological Review 17 (1): 160–191. https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192X-2018-1-160-191.

Golovina, Ksenia. 2018. “Material Culture and Bricolage: Russian-Speaking Migrants in Japan Who Make and Procure Objects.” Forum for Anthropology and Culture 14: 204–227. https://doi.org/10.31250/1815-8927-2018-14-14-204-227

Golovina, Ksenia. 2017. “Migration, Paperwork, and Life Course: Exploring Power Relations in Russo-Japanese Marriages.” Journal of Cultural Anthropology 18: 159–172. https://doi.org/10.32262/wsca.18.159

Golovina, Ksenia, and Varvara Mukhina. 2017. “Japanese Language Learning and Employment Opportunities for Foreign Residents: Russian-Speaking Migrants in Japan.” Eruditi: The CGCS Journal of Language Research and Education 1 (1): 17–35.

Papers in Japanese

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2025．「「生きづらさ」の極みに―結婚移住女性が何を伝えたか」『日本の科学者』60（4）：206–211．

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2024．「『ゴミが憑いてくる』：在留外国人を取り巻く『ゴミ』の構想―文化人類学及び批判的談話研究からのアプローチ―」『東洋大学社会学部紀要』62（1）：39–53.

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ・吉田千春・徳永あかね．2022．「国内の多言語環境家庭における親子の言語使用―オンラインアンケート調査の結果に着目して―」『東洋大学社会学部紀要』59（2）：5–21．

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ・ムヒナ・ヴァルヴァラ．2021．「職業紹介事業者によるナラティブにおける『望ましい外国人人材像』―在留外国人の就職を妨げる要因に着目して―」『東洋大学社会学部紀要』58（2）：87–101．

朝妻恵里子・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2021．「レイコフ&ジョンソンによる『上下』のメタファー論再考―日本語とロシア語に基づいて―」『慶應義塾大学日吉紀要．人文科学』36：1–15．

朝妻恵里子・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2020．「ロシア語における主体の弱化と『場所』中心の表現」『言語・文化・コミュニケーション』52：1–11．

朝妻恵里子・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2019．「『教える／教わる』учить／учитьсяの日露対照からみえるBE言語の他動性」『言語教育におけるコロケーション―ロシア語と日本語―』81–92．

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2019．「日本におけるロシア語話者の様相およびロシア語の継承」『ことばと社会』21：159–167．

ムヒナ・ヴァルヴァラ・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2018．「在日ロシア人女性移住者からみた外国人女性の労働市場への統合―ジェンダー視点からの考察―」『多文化共生研究年報』15：17–29．（査）

朝妻恵里子・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2018．「ロシア語のу＋生格における『包括性』」『ロシア語学と言語研究』VI：16–28．

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ・吉田千春．2017．「就学前児童への外国人親の母語の継承における社会心理的要因―在日外国人母親によるナラティブを中心に―」『言語文化教育研究』15：92–108．（査）

ムヒナ・ヴァルヴァラ・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2017．「ロシア人ディアスポラの現状―在日ロシア人移住者の位置づけに向けて―」『移民政策研究』9：106–123．（査）

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2016．「日本における移住者の『マイホーム』―ロシア語圏コミュニティメンバーの住宅選びとインテリアを事例に―」『生活学論叢』29：15–30.（査）

朝妻恵里子・ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2016．「BECOME言語という類型にみられる日本語とロシア語の共通性」『慶應義塾大学日吉紀要「言語・文化・コミュニケーション」』47：1–14．

ゴロウィナ・クセーニヤ．2015．「コリョサラムの祖先を持った在日旧ソ連女性移住者―2人のナラティブから見たエスニック・アイデンティティの変容―」『次世代人文社会研究』11：195–215．（査）

Reviews

Golovina, Ksenia. 2025. Review of 文章に生きる――チェーホフと、エスノグラフィーを書く (Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov), by Kirin Narayan, translated by Itsuhiro Hazama. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 90 (2): 356–357. https://doi.org/10.14890/jjcanth.90.2_356      .                                                                               

Golovina, Ksenia. 2016. Review of Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 81 (3): 547–550. https://doi.org/10.14890/jjcanth.81.3_547