

Research areas
- Migration in the broader Eurasian region
- Migration in Nordic countries
- State and society relations in Central Asia
- International relations in Eurasia
Current research
In the Sociology of Law Department, Sherzod Eraliev is currently running the research project “Informality, Migrant Precarity and Exploitation in Nordic Context: Uzbek Migrant Workers in Sweden and Finland” (IMPEX), funded by Forte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. This ethnographic study of immigrants explores (1) how, why and when migrants manoeuvre around the law and resort to the help of informal institutions; (2) how precarious working and living conditions reflect on the working life of migrants and impact their perceptions of the host society; and finally (3) what consequences these experiences and strategies have for the possibility to improve the working life of migrants in Sweden and Finland.
Sherzod is also conducting research on civil society institutions and digital media activism in non-democratic regimes, migration and authoritarianism in the Eurasian region.
Publications
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Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan
Sherzod Eraliev, Rustam Urinboyev
(2024) Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the Global Age: Narrating Geopolitics and Culture
Book chapterInformality and Uzbek Migrant Networks in Russia and Turkey
Sherzod Eraliev, Rustam Urinboyev
(2023) The Central Asian World
Book chapterEveryday Transnational Lives of Uzbek Migrants in Russia: A Socio-Legal Perspective
Rustam Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism
Book chapterReligious Extremism
Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Conflict and Security Law : A Research Handbook , p.1161-1179
Book chapterThe Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey
Rustam Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) Palgrave International Political Economy Series
BookInformal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan
Rustam Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) Central Asian Survey, 41 p.477-497
Journal articleUnderstanding Labor, Law and Informality in Non-Western Migration Regimes
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.1-32
Book chapterMigrant Labor Markets in Russia and Turkey
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.113-143
Book chapterThe Shadow Economy and the Street World as a Migration Arena
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.145-180
Book chapterInformality and Migrant Agency in Non-Western Migration Regimes
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.181-188
Book chapterRussian and Turkish Migration Regimes in a Comparative Perspective
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.33-50
Book chapterParallel Worlds of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Turkey
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.51-77
Book chapterDocumentation and Legalization Arenas in Moscow and Istanbul
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev
(2022) International Political Economy Series , p.79-111
Book chapterCentral Asian female migrants’ transnational social spaces : Straddling illegality and tradition
Sherzod Eraliev, Anna-Liisa Heusala
(2021) Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe , p.114-132
Book chapterPrecarious Times for Central Asian Migrants in Russia
Sherzod Eraliev, Rustam Urinboyev
(2020) Current History, 119 p.258-263
Journal articleGrowing Religiosity Among Central Asian Migrants in Russia: Why Does Migration 'Theologize'?
Sherzod Eraliev
(2018) International and Advanced Japanese Studies, 10-11 p.137-150
Journal article
Background
Sherzod Eraliev has a PhD in Migration Studies from the Special Programme for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has been an Academy of Finland researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, a research fellow at the Central Asia Program of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, and has worked with international organisations in the development, migration and humanitarian spheres.