Prof. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin

Head of the Institute for Immigration
Faculty of Social & Community Sciences
Prof. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin
svetach@ruppin.ac.il

Teaching

  • Migration and Inequality
  • Migration and inequality in education and labor market
  • Migration, identity, and war

Research

  • Education and labor market in general, and in STEM fields in particular
  • Digital capital
  • Health

Publications

​​​Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2011). Educational achievements and study patterns of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israeli secondary schools​. Canadian Issues, 97-103.

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., Shavit, Y., & Ayalon, H.(2011). I​mmigration in the 1990s from the Former Soviet Union and the Higher Education System in Israel in the First Half of the 1990s. Economical Herald of Donbas 4 (26), 106-113.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2013).  “The Digital Divide as a Social Gap – Indeed? Inequality of Computer and Internet Access and Use among Immigrants in Israeli Society.  Misgarot Media 10, Winter:1-17 (Hebrew).

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2014). Use of the Internet in Capital Enhancing Ways-Ethnic Differences in Israel and the Role of Language Proficiency​. International Journal of Internet Science, 9(1),9-30.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2015). Does the wind of change blow in late adulthood? Adoption of ICT by senior citizens during the past decade​. Poetics, 52, 44-63.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2016). The less you know, the better you'll sleep–Perceived job insecurity in the Internet age​. Computers in Human Behavior, 62, 754-761.

Chachashvili‐Bolotin, S., Lissitsa, S., Shavit, Y., & Ayalon, H. (2016). The Short Term Effects of Immigrant Students on the Educational Achievements of Native‐Born Students​. International Migration, 54(5), 150-161. 

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., Milner-Bolotin, M., & Lissitsa, S. (2016). Examination of factors predicting secondary students' interest in tertiary STEM education. International Journal of Science Education, 38(3), 366-390. 

Chachashvili‐Bolotin, S., & Lissitsa, S. (2016). Enrollment in Religious Schools and the Educational Achievements of Children of High‐Skill Immigrants​. International Migration Review, 1-26.

Lissitsa, S., Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., & Bokek-Cohen, Y. A. (2017). Can digital skills raise occupational prestige among ethnic minorities?​ Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 30(2), 204-222.

Lissitsa, S., Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., & Bokek-Cohen, Y. A. (2017). Digital skills and extrinsic rewards in late career​. Technology in Society, 51, 46-55.

Amit, K., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2018). Satisfied with Less? Mismatch between Subjective and Objective Position of Immigrants and Native-born Men and Women in the Labor Market. Frontiers in Sociology, 3, 33.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2019). The effect of digital variables on perceived employability in an ethnic minority and the hegemonic group​. Israel Affairs, 1-23.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili‐Bolotin, S. (2019). Enrolment in Mathematics and Physics at The Advanced Level in Secondary School Among Two Generations of Highly Skilled​. Immigrants. International Migration, 57(5), 252-270.​

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2019). Cognitive skills and labour market experience of FSU immigrants in Israel​. Current Politics and Economics of the Middle East, 10(3), 357-379.

Mattei, P., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2019). The Role of Religiosity in Education Policy in France and Israel.​ Mondi Migranti, 3, 181-202.

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., Lissitsa, S., & Milner-Bolotin, M. (2019). STEM Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrant Students with High-Skilled Parental Backgrounds.​ International Journal of Science Education, 17(4), 2465-2483.​​

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2020). It's not what you know but where you come from. Cognitive skills, job autonomy and latent discrimination of ethnic minorities​​. International Review of Education – Journal for Lifelong Learning. 66(2), 341-362.

Grotlüschen, A., Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., Heilmann, L., Dutz, G. (2020). Beyond literacy and language provision. Socio-political participation of migrants and language minorities in five countries from PIAAC R1/R2​. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 1477971419898491.

Lissitsa, Sabina and Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (Forthcoming). E-government services use among single mothers– findings of a repeated cross-sectional study 2014-2019. Israel Affairs. Accepted for publication. 

Amit, K., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2022). Attitudes Of The Israeli Public Towards Migrant Workers And Asylum Seekers During The Corona Period. Hagira (Hebrew), 13, 53-72

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2022). Timing Patterns For Making STEM-Related Educational Choices in Academic Education – Findings Of A Narrative Study. International Journal Of Science Education 44(2), 223-244.

Lissitsa, S., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2022). Socio-Economic Or Marital Status? Factors Driving Digital Inequality Among Single and Married Mothers – Findings of A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study, 2014-2019. Poetics: 101666 Equal Authorship.

Neter, E., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2022). Ethnic Differences in Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors Related to Alzheimer’s Disease in The Israeli Survey of Aging. International Journal Of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(15), 1-15.

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., & Kreiner, H. (2022). Heritage-Bilingualism And Educational Achievement Among Second-Generation Immigrants:  Are All School Subjects Equal? Learning and Individual Differences, 1-13 .

Lissitsa, S., Ben-Zamara, T., & Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2023). Intersectional Approach to The Challenges of Religious Women in STEM Fields. International Journal Of Educational Development. 

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S., Blank, C., & Sever, R. (2023). "Absent Attendees": High School Hidden Dropouts Among Immigrant Students With High-Skilled Parent Backgrounds. Hagira (Hebrew), 14, 56-70.

Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. (2024). The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the strengthening of Ukrainian identity among former Soviet immigrants from Ukraine: Israel as a case study. Post-Soviet Affairs, 40(1), 56-70.

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Dr. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin is the head of the Institute for Immigration and Social Integration and a senior lecturer at the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. Since 2021 she is an Associate Editor of Hagira (Migration in Hebrew) Journal. Her main areas of research include migration and inequality, inequalityin education, economic and social integration of immigrants. She frequentlyalso publishes national and state reports and policy briefs aimed at servingand informing policymakers.