Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore. My research focuses on migrant labor in Taiwan, continuing a project that I started as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan (March 2022–December 2023) and at the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University (January–June 2024).

My research interests cover labor migration, global approaches to migration studies, violence and care, ethnography and affects, as well as workers’ subjectivities. I engage with feminist and postcolonial debates and with critiques of political economy.

I earned a PhD from University of Osnabrück, Germany in 2020 with a study on the Indonesian labor migration program titled “Negotiating respect(ability). A transnational ethnography of Indonesian labor brokerage” (suma cum laude).

Throughout my academic activities, I have done extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Germany.

Previously, I was a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin (2013–2017), holding a scholarship from the German Volkswagen Foundation. Subsequently, I worked as a research associate at the Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück (2019–2021) and at the Chair of Critical Development Studies, University of Passau (2021–2022).

I taught undergraduate and graduate students on issues of migration and mobility in Europe and Asia as well as in qualitative research methods.

My work is shaped by my interest in learning from those people who I interact with, students as well as migrant workers and other marginalized subjects – from their wisdoms, modes of survival, and agency.