I was always interested in human migration and mobility.Initially I explored it in literary works. My wrote my MA dissertation on African American women's writers under the supervision of Prof William Boelhower and Prof Giulia Fabi at University of Trieste. Then I moved closer to home and wrote about East-West Europe migration under the supervision of Prof Dasa Duhacek and Prof Jasmina Lukic at Central European University. At that time countries of Eastern Europe were joining the European Union and I felt that literature was insufficient to address the injustice that migrants experience as a result of restrictive immigration policies. I was familiar with these as back then I worked at Women's Shelter in Bologna (Italy) to support women victims of trafficking. My next project was my PhD on human trafficking for sexual exploitation that I completed at University of Utrecht, under supervision of Prof Rosi Braidotti. Having gained my PhD, I was interested if my knowlege was of any use in the 'real' world. So, I joined Centre for Policy Studies (CEPS), a policy think-thank in Brussels. I got to learn how policy makers such as European Commission and European Paliament operate. What I missed, however, was time to think more deeply about issues rather than having to act on them immediately.So, with my ESRC and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, I moved to COMPAS at University of Oxford. There, under the supervision of Prof Bridget Anderson, I broadened my research into the areas of labour and citizenship. From COMPAS I moved to the Open University to continue my research on citizenship as part of Prof Engin Isin team on 'acts of citizenship'. My next move was to University of Leicester and then Bristol to try to understand better the role of businesses and digital technology in shaping migratory processes and experiences. Gender remains at the core of my work. What's next?