She joined the University of Utrecht in 2010 as a post-doc researcher having previously worked as a Marie Curie research fellow at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Sussex University.She completed her PhD at the Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2007 and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the study of Global Ethics in Birmingham in 2005. Her research is centred around irregular migration, smuggling, trafficking, surveillance, gender and public space.