Urban b/ordering, migration, racialisation and critical urban governance

I am a social anthropologist and Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the University of Barcelona, with expertise in urban studies, migration and border studies, racialisation, Islamophobia, racial capitalism, housing and urban planning, public-space governance, policing, and digital/algorithmic governance.

A central focus of my work is urban b/ordering: how planning, housing policy, policing, welfare infrastructures, territorial classification and increasingly data-driven forms of governance differentiate populations and produce unequal access to urban space, resources and rights.

I work primarily through ethnographic, qualitative and comparative methods, with extensive research experience in Spain/Catalonia and Denmark. I can contribute doctoral supervision and training in ethnography, institutional and policy analysis, comparative urban research, critical migration and border studies, racialisation and Islamophobia, racial capitalism, and qualitative approaches to AI and algorithmic governance.

Through the University of Barcelona, I can contribute an academic environment for doctoral research and access to Barcelona/Catalonia as a strong empirical setting for research on migration, housing, urban transformation, public-space governance and digitalisation.

I am also a member of the Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà (OACU), which may provide additional possibilities for urban research, civil-society engagement, knowledge exchange, training and locally embedded collaboration.