About
I am a sociologist specialising in the intersections of migration, labour, and bordering practices. My research explores how non-citizens navigate precarious employment and institutional barriers shaped by both labour and migration regimes. Currently, I hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oslomet, where I study how digital transformations impact migrant labour. I conduct empirical fieldwork in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Norway. At the same time, with colleagues from the European Trade Union Institute, we develop an analysis that investigates patterns of robotisation and migrant workers’ employment in Europe and the impact of disruptive events such as the Covid-19 pandemic. I aim to develop this focus further by examining how technological change reshapes the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion for migrant workers in European labour markets in specific sectors.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Gheorghiev, Olga
(2025).
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2492348
Gheorghiev, Olga
; Collini, Mattia
(2024).
Attitudes in times of crisis: An analysis of individual determinants towards immigration in the Czech Republic.
Nations and Nationalism.
https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.13064
Gheorghiev, Olga
; Čada, Karel; Wolfová, Alžběta
(2024).
Racialised underclass: pathways to work for Roma students in the Czech Republic.
International Studies in Sociology of Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2024.2319108
Gheorghiev, Olga
(2023).
Economic migrants in the Czech segmented labour market: Covid-19 as a magnifying glass.
International journal of sociology and social policy.
https://doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-06-2022-0162
Čada, Karel;
Gheorghiev, Olga
(2023).
Social dominance orientation, intergroup contact and belief in traditional school culture as predictors for parents’ attitudes to school segregation in the Czech Republic.
Frontiers in Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124781v
Nemcova Tejkalova, Alice;
Gheorghiev, Olga
; Supa, Marketa; Nainova, Victoria
(2022).
Children and the Radio: Who Should Listen to Whom?.
Journalism Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.2011377
