My research, teaching, and public engagement is located at the intersections of sociology of childhood and materialist feminist thought, with a focus on unequal childhoods, social reproduction, and migration in neoliberal border regimes. My work explores stratification and bordering of the conditions in which life is made, and made meaningful, and in turn how children and their families in precarious migranthood sustain, weather, evade, care, and engage in solidaristic action. I seek to critically intervene in debates about the politics of children and childhood, and am particularly concerned with cultivating alternatives to child exceptionalism through attention to the disconnect between the symbolic figure of the deserving child and the experiences of marginalised children themselves.

My current research explores these themes through:

• Children Caring on the Move (ESRC-funded, co-lead) 
• Social reproduction in the shadows: migrant mothers and children with “no recourse to public funds” (BA/Leverhulme funded, PI)
• Solidarities: Negotiating migrant deservingness. (Nordforsk funded, Co-I)

Methodologically, I am interested in the ethics and politics of ethnography and participatory research with children and other marginalised social groups.

I am a co-convenor of the Reimagining Childhood Studies project and a member of the editorial board of the journal Childhood.