About Staff

At present, it is estimated that between 185 to 192 million people reside outside of their home countries. My primary research interest lies in what gives support to people who cross borders and enter into transnational marriages and how they express themselves as individuals or through family and community. My second interest is the role of religion and the power it exercises not only within the intimate sphere of immigrant’s relations with their partners, but also their interactions within the public sphere. My current research focuses on how not only language, but the body is employed as a powerful focal point in creating and negotiating mutual narratives as an expression of transnational relations and immigrant’s religious identities. I am also interested in how immigrants introduce alternative notions of relatedness and care into their host society and the broader implications that this may have on how the host society views immigrants and the potential that they carry to effect change at a micro-level.