Anastasiia Mykolenko
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Protection/Child Abuse
- Citizenship/Statelessness/Nationality
- Corruption/Impunity
- Document Authentication
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- Forced Conscription
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Linguistic Analysis
- Nationality Assessment
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Return
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Witchcraft Accusations/Ritual Violence
About Anastasiia Mykolenko
Anastasiia Mykolenko is a Ukrainian anthropologist and legal professional specializing in forced displacement, refugee reception, and protection in Eastern Europe. Based in Montréal, she is completing a PhD in Anthropology at the Université de Montréal and holds advanced degrees in European and international law. Her research and consulting work focus on how people navigate war, borders, and bureaucratic systems, with extensive fieldwork along the Polish–Ukrainian border and engagement in Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. She has worked as a Senior Analyst and Fieldwork Coordinator on multi-country projects related to displacement and gender-based violence, and as a Protection Assistant with an international NGO at the Polish–Ukrainian border.
Anastasiia combines country-of-origin knowledge with strong analytical and writing skills, producing clear, evidence-based reports for NGOs, donors, and institutional partners. She has hands-on experience with refugee and asylum issues, including community-based legal support in Montréal, and in-depth expertise on vulnerable and marginalized groups such as Roma/Romani communities, women at risk, LGBTQI+ persons, and human rights defenders. She works in English, French, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish (and reads Spanish), and is particularly interested in cases that require nuanced understanding of local context, discrimination, and the everyday realities of people on the move.
