I am a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland.  As a feminist political geographer, my research focuses on war, displacement, and the lived experience of refuge with a regional focus on Western Europe and the Middle East. I have conducted extensive qualitative research in Denmark and Jordan.

My current research project Precarious Protection: Syrian and Somali Struggles for Refuge in Denmark, focuses on the shift towards temporary refugee protection in Denmark, a country signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This research is funded by the Irish Research Council.

My dissertation, Unsettling Refuge: Syrian Refugess' Account of Life in Denmark, examined the ways in which migration management is transnationally constituted and negotiated by migrants. It analyzed the state migration policies, refugee laws, and international agreements through which the migration policies of Europe and the Middle East have become increasingly interconnected. I explored the transnational nature of this emerging ‘refugee regime’, drawing on the perspectives of staff from humanitarian organizations as well as those of forced migrants who encounter and negotiate this regime. This research was funded by a combination of awards including a research grant from the Danish Institute in Damascus, a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant, and a Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

My M.A. thesis examined asylum seekers' everyday life within the Danish asylum system. This work won the Political Geography Specialty Group award for best MA student paper in 2014 and has recently been published as a chapter in the 2016 edited collection Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention from Routledge.