Daiva Repečkaitė

Currently research student at Tel Aviv University (Israel)

MA with distinction in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University (Hungary)

BA with distinction in Political Science from Vilnius University, best VU Pol.Sci. thesis 2007 award (Lithuania)

Research interests:

  • Gender, ethnic and national stereotypes in the media and advertising;
  • Cross-border migration from the gender perspective;

Research outputs:

  • Conference papers:

  1. The ethnicity of Soviet nostalgia: ethnicized violence, exclusion and riots in Vilnius at the CEU Sociology graduate conference ‘The Politics of Inequality and Difference: Critical Approaches in Anthropology and Sociology’ (Budapest, June 12-13, 2009)
  2. Three Cents per Minute for a Woman: Passive Femininity in Lithuanian Commercials at the international interdisciplinary conference “Culture and media: local and global aspects” (Vilnius, May 22-23, 2009)
  3. ‘Natural’ national family: the Lithuanian case at the LadyFest international conference ‘Lithuania and Belarus: policies of normalisation’ (Vilnius, May 8, 2009).

  • Publications:

  1. Balčaitė, Indrė and Daiva Repečkaitė. “Linguistic obstacles to universal ideologies in Japan.” Baltos lankos (LT), 2004, 18/19: 157-184.
  2. Repečkaitė, Daiva . “Japan’s immigration policy: closed front door and performative migration.” Politologija (LT), 2009, 4(56): 103-126.
  3. Repečkaitė, Daiva (forthcoming). “The ethnicity of Homo Sovieticus.” Focaal (NL), 2009.
  4. Repečkaitė, Daiva. “Being JapPino: outstanding status and networking practices among Filipinos in Tokyo.” Socialiniai mokslai (LT), 2009, 4(66): 98-105.

  • Projects:

  1. Israeli Government scholarship for study of new immigrants from ex-USSR (Tel Aviv, ongoing).
  2. Japan Foundation scholarship for research project „Japanese attitudes towards migration and migrants: space, gender and perceptions of threat” (Tokyo, March-April 2009);
  3. Case study of Anykščiai (North-Eastern Lithuania) within the framework of the project ‘Jewish heritage in towns’ by the Center for Studies of the Culture History of East European Jews (Vilnius-Anykščiai, July-August 2006).
  4. ‘Civil society of the town X’: research assistant for the survey, in-depth interviews and data processing within the framework of students’ academic internship programme by the Lithuanian Science Council at the Culture, Philosophy and Arts Institute (Vilnius-undisclosed town, July-August 2005).
  5. ‘Welfare and democracy: social-economic differences and democracy satisfaction in Lithuania’: research assistant for the qualitative study on behalf of the ESTEP and the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (Vilnius).

Other education

  • “Media, democratization and international development: foundations for a more robust research agenda”: summer school organised by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University (Budapest, June 28-July 15, 2009). Fieldwork with a focus on minority media.
  • Erasmus exchange programme at Gothenburg University (Sweden, August 2005-January 2006). Area of focus: gender and politics in Sweden and Lithuania.

Work experience in research:

Research methods:

  • In-depth interviews,
  • Discourse analysis,
  • Statistical methods (SPSS, basic Stata),
  • Qualitative comparative analysis.

Languages spoken:

  • Lithuanian – native
  • English – fluent (12 years of studying, IELTS score in 2006 – 8 (out of 9));
  • German – intermediate communication skills, good reading skills (7 years of studying);
  • Russian – good communication, reading skills, intermediate writing skills (self-taught);
  • Japanese – intermediate spoken communication skills, basic reading and writing skills (2 years of studying);
  • Swedish – good written communication skills, intermediate oral communication skills (3 months of studying);
  • Yiddish – good understanding, intermediate communication and writing skills (1 month of studying);
  • Hebrew – intermediate (2 months intensive studying);
  • Hungarian, French – basics.