Dr Ivanna Kyliushyk is a political scientist and sociologist specialising in Ukrainian migration studies, with a particular focus on women’s migration and return migration. Her research interests include the social and labour market integration of migrants, mobility capital, transnational practices, and migrants’ political inclusion. Methodologically, she focuses on qualitative research methods.

She is a member of the Polish Sociological Association, the European Sociological Association, and the IMISCOE research network. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Researcher) at the Centre of Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH) at Kozminski University, where she is involved in both international and national research projects, including “Link4Skills” (Horizon Europe) and BigMig (NCN OPUS 19). She is also engaged in projects concerning the situation of Ukrainian women in the care sector (CareOrg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), as well as highly skilled and return migration (in cooperation with the Warsaw City Hall). Previously, she collaborated, among others, on the MIMY project (Horizon 2020–2023).

Dr Kyliushyk has many years of experience in the non-governmental sector as the coordinator of the Meeting Centre at the Ukrainian House Foundation. She has published in leading academic journals, including Mobilities, Migration Studies, Migration Letters, Frontiers in Sociology, and Forum: Qualitative Social Research, and is also a co-author of monographs and book chapters published by Routledge.