Current research:
- H2020 Welcoming spaces project on how to contribute to the revitalisation of shrinking areas in Europe while also offering space for the successful integration of non-EU migrants in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (‘leaving no one behind’). Working together with Annelies Zoomers, Maggi Leung, Marlies Meijer and Karin Geuijen.
- Labour migration in the European Union, with specific focus on Polish migrants in the Netherlands.
PhD project: I have contributed to theorising the concept of (un)familiarity, consisting of knowledge, experiences and feelings of proximity. With this concept in mind, I have focused on cross-border leisure and shopping practices within three different European borderlands, specifically the Dutch-German, German-Polish and Polish-Ukrainian border region.
My research interests lie in migration, dynamics of circular mobilities, border networks and practices, migrant entrepreneurialism, otherness and identity construction, (mental) borders and everyday life experiences, encounters with differences.
Projects
Project
VISION project
01.01.2022
to 01.01.2027
General project description
In this project, we look at mobile workers working and living in Europe's innerperipheries and the extent their mobilities affect conviviality and meaningful translocal connections.
Role
PhD Supervisor & Researcher
Funding
External funding
Completed Projects
Project
Welcoming Spaces: investing in revitalizing shrinking areas by hosting non-EU migrants
01.03.2020
to 29.02.2024
General project description
The international consortium Welcoming Spaces investigates new ways to merge two policy challenges: how to contribute to the revitalisation of shrinking areas in Europe, while also offering space for the successful integration of non-EU migrants. For this purpose the researchers have selected fifty examples of ‘Welcoming Spaces’ across Europe. A Welcoming Space is a local initiative to attract migrants and revitalize the region.
The aim of ‘Welcoming Spaces’ is to create a platform that makes these examples visible and allows practitioners and researchers to learn from successful and unsuccessful approaches in a wide variety of geographical, political and social contexts. The selected examples will be analysed from different perspectives, varying from representations of the public discourse and media, geographic and institutional contexts and the local-migrant capacity to act.
Welcoming Spaces is coordinated by Prof. Annelies Zoomers (principal investigator) and Dr Karin Geuijen
Role
Researcher
Funding
EU grant H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2019; RIA; 870952