Research expertise in family and unaccompanied child migration; ethical, social, and political-economic dimensions of care and care labour.
*co-PI on ESRC-funded project: Children caring on the move, an investigation of care that lone child migrants to the UK both receive and provide.
*PI on BA-funded project: Social reproduction in the shadows: migrant mothers and children with no recourse to public funds
*CI on Nordforsk-funded project: SOLIDARITIES: Negotiating Migrant Deservingness
Experience
2017–present
Associate professor, UCL
2013–2017
Lecturer, Institute of Education
2010–2013
Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
Education
2014
University of London, PhD
2008
University of East London, MA
Grants and Contracts
2020
SOLIDARITIES: Negotiating migrant deservingness
Role:
CI
Funding Source:
Nordforsk
2019
Children Caring on the Move
Role:
Lead CI
Funding Source:
ESRC
2018
Social reproduction in the shadows: Migrant mothers and children with no recourse to public funds