Research
I am an Assistant Professor in International Migration at the LSE European Institute. My interdisciplinary research is situated in the fields of migration, feminist and socio-legal studies. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2021. Prior to joining the LSE, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Zolberg Institute of Migration and Mobility at the New School of Social Research, a Global Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University and Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.
In my ethnographic dissertation, I examine a feminist-inspired prostitution and anti-trafficking policy approach and its intersections with immigration controls from the perspective of migrant sex workers and people in the sex trade. My dissertation draws on large-scale ethnographic, interview and media data, including 210 interviews with sex workers and people in the sex trade, policy-makers, police forces and activists in the Nordic region (Sweden, Norway, Finland) where the approach originates. You can find a policy brief summarizing the findings of this research here. My work is informed by more than a decade of experience working in feminist, migrants' and sex workers' rights campaigns and grassroots networks. From 2015-2017, I was the main researcher of the multidisciplinary Deported project funded by the Kone Foundation that brought together artists, journalists, activists and researchers to raise awareness of the effects of border regimes and criminalization of migration. The project won the Visual Journalism of the Year Award in 2017. |
Education
2013–2021: Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
2010 Master of Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Helsinki. 2010 Bachelor of Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Helsinki. Awards & HonorsMy work has been recognized by the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, The Law and Society Association, the Fulbright Foundation, the Visual Journalism of the Year Award, the American-Scandinavian Foundation Award, and the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, among others.
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NewsArticle "The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-deportation narratives" based on photojournalistic stories of people deported from Europe published at the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (open access).
Policy brief based on my dissertation published in June 2022 by the LSE Centre for Women Peace and Security
See the recording of the pre-release event chaired by Dr Oula Kadhum.
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