I am a PhD researcher at USBO, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, as part of the NWO-funded project Improvising Security: Subsistence in Contemporary Urban Europe. My research will explore how women in Rotterdam create everyday practices of security in the face of organized state abandonment, a process in which the state systematically withdraws care and support, particularly in contexts where racialized, gendered, and classed exclusions have historically been produced and maintained. I am interested in how informal care networks and collective strategies emerge in response to these structural conditions of insecurity. Using decolonial, urban, and feminist perspectives, I will approach these practices as situated forms of care and survival in the city, explored through ethnographic fieldwork.
My interest in urban insecurity, inequality, and lived experiences builds on my earlier work as a junior researcher at Erasmus 木瓜福利影视 Rotterdam. There, I worked on a project that focused on educational equity and inclusion for historically underrepresented and marginalized groups in collaboration with several primary and secondary schools in Rotterdam. I also conducted a separate qualitative study on the everyday experiences of Muslim women with anti-Muslim racism in the Netherlands, particularly in relation to veiling, visibility, and exclusion in public and professional spaces, and how this form of racism affects mobility.
I'm especially interested in and passionate about research that centers lived experiences and pays attention to how people relate to, move through, and shape (urban) life under unequal conditions.