He participates in the research project “Wired Up, Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”. His dissertation addresses how Dutch-Moroccan migrant youth use digital media to create a space and mediate their journeys at the crossroads of cultures of origin, global youth cultures, and cultures of immigration. Also he is a researcher for the European “Mig@Net” project exploring education and knowledge in transnational digital networks, migration and gender. He takes part in “Intergender”, a Research school in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and has participated in “Network Of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe” (NOISE) and Oxford Internet Institute summer schools. Earlier he was an editor for the Dutch literary journal “Vooys”. He is a member of the AHRC research network “Postcolonial Europe” (Leeds, Munich and Utrecht) and the “Postcolonial Studies Initiative” (PCI, Utrecht). His research interests include feminist technoscience, new media theory, postcolonial theory, intersectional thinking and (virtual) ethnography.
Among his publications are "Mediated Crossroads: Youthful Digital Diasporas" in M/C Journal (May 2011), “Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software” in Feminist Review (fall 2011) and “Migrant youth invading online spaces: intersectional performativity of self in socio-technological networks” in Where have all the cyberfeminists gone? ed. Radhika Gajalla (forthcoming, Peter Lang).
