Olena Fedyuk Current Project Olena Fedyuk Curriculum Vitae Current Project My research focuses on the Ukrainian labor migration to Italy, which started in the second half of the 1990s and as to now riches estimated 600-700 thousand of Ukrainians working in Italy. Due to the highly feminized nature of this migration (up to 90 % of migrants are women), it has been framed in highly sexualized nationalist discourses in both Italy and Ukraine. Thus, I hope my research to contribute empirically and theoretically to the transnational migration studies as located at the intersection of gender and nationalist discourses. Conceptualizing transnational social field as a network of networks that simultaneously but unevenly links migrants with their work and origin places across the borders, this research looks at the power hierarchies within this field and explores against which factors and discourses migrants empowerment and dependencies are shaped. Focusing on the labor migration from Western regions of Ukraine to Rome and Naples the research explores which trajectories migrants choose to make the best out of their often semi-legal status in Italy, how they position themselves against shaming national discourses in Ukraine and Italy, what kinds of claims they make and what kinds of image they seek to maintain both in sending and receiving societies. The research will explore the poles of gravity existing within the migrants transnational social field (family, private life, money, duty, national identification, sexuality), measure states' presence in the lives of migrants, bring together micro level of individual decisions about migration trajectories and macro level of state-created structural opportunities.