Yan Matusevich

Yan Matusevich is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His doctoral research is on the experiences of Russian exiles who have relocated to Central Asia since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He has previously worked on transnational migrant communities linking Central Asia to Russia, Turkey, and South Korea. He holds an M.Sc. in migration studies from the University of Oxford and completed his undergraduate studies in political science at Bard College. He previously held the position of associate policy officer at the International Centre of Migration Policy (ICMPD) in Vienna and is currently a freelance journalist based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.