Research profile

My research revolves around questions related to transnational labor migration, human trafficking, and the sale of sex, and primarily contributes to migration studies, gender studies, labor studies, and urban studies. Using qualitative methods such as ethnography, interviews, and discourse analysis, I explore how migrants, on the one hand, navigate hierarchies of citizenship, sexuality, racialization, and gender – hierarchies that significantly shape national labor markets. On the other hand, I also examine how the nation-state and other actors – such as companies or NGOs – shape migrants' mobility and working conditions.

I am currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project From Soil to Wine Glass: Labor Mobility Regimes and the Possibilities for a Just Green Transition, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-project2, 2025–2030). By taking the supply chain of so-called “natural wine” from Sicily to Copenhagen as a starting point, the project investigates how labor relations, migration, and labor processes in the growing natural wine industry impact the potential for a socially just green transition.

I am also the PI of the exploratory research network Keep the City Ticking: Architectures of Fulfilment and the Infrastructures of Migration and Labour, also funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (2024–2027). This network brings together a range of Danish and international scholars. Through a series of seminars and special issues in international journals, the network explores how transnational migration and platform-mediated gig work are transforming consumption patterns in several major cities across the Global North.

Over the past ten years, I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo (Norway), Brown University (USA), Leipzig University (Germany), and most recently, Uppsala University (Sweden).

I primarily teach in the Master's program in International Relations, where I also serve as the coordinator for the elective “Global Gender Studies”.