Research Team

Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

Principal Investigator

FNRS Tenured Research Associate, Senior Lecturer

Dr. Laure Sizaire

Postdoctoral Researcher (MSCA)

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Research keywords: gendered globalization of marriage market, transnational intimacies and conjugalities, international matchmaking, migratory projects and experiences

Dr. Miyako Hayakawa

Postdoctoral Researcher (AspirE)

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Research keywords:  anthropology of family and kinship, Japanese migration, international divorce, and privileged international mobility

Dr. Mimy Keomanichanh

Postdoctoral Researcher (AspirE)

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Research keywords: mixed couples, emotions, gender and nation, marriage migration (between Laos and Western Europe)

Dr. Lucas Monteil

Independent Researcher

“Situated Mixedness”

Aaron Raphael Ponce

PhD Researcher

“Nation(ality), Sex(uality) and Class: Cross-Border Relationship Trajectories of Gay Belgian-Chinese Couples”

Mari Kawase

PhD Researcher

“Sexualité et mixité conjugale : les couples belgo-japonais en Belgique et au Japon” 

Cai Chen

PhD Researcher

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

“Intimacy across Boundaries: An Ethnography of Ethnoracial Dynamics among Sino-Congolese Couples in Postcolonial Congo (DRC)”

Fleurine Hermand

PhD Researcher

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

“The experiences of love among Iranians in Brussels” 

Dr. Herbary Cheung

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Gender Studies

Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences 
Monash University

Research keywords: Gender, sexuality and development,  Transnational migration and refugee, Contextual mobility, Family, marriage and health, Intersectionality, Southeast Asia-Hong Kong connections

Yoko Iwashita

PhD Researcher

University of Lille, France

“Intercultural dynamics of Franco-Japanese families in France (Lille) and Japan (Tokyo) from the 1990s”

Gabriel Alberto Ceballos Rodríguez

PhD Researcher

Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

“Binational families’ identity development and integration: The Estonian case”