Dina Bolokan

Dina Bolokan is a postdoctoral researcher in the project Men Avoiding or Deserting the Military, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her current research examines how Russian draft evaders and deserters navigate expectations of masculinity, experiences of social exclusion, and forced displacement. At the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, she builds on this empirical work by investigating how epistemic and ontic injustices manifest in asylum adjudication processes in Germany and the United Kingdom.

Previously, Bolokan conducted research and taught at the Economic Geography and Globalization research group at the Institute of Geography, University of Münster, and at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel. She completed her award-winning PhD in sociology at the University of Basel with a dissertation titled Everyday Coloniality: The Political Economy of Labor Migration within the Agricultural Sector in Europe. Her thesis offers a critical analysis of how an ethnicized, racialized, and gendered underclass in agriculture is produced, regulated, and controlled within neocolonial regimes of im/mobilization—and explores the consequences of this precarious existence for workers and their communities.