Ayesha Hussain
PhD Researcher
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Research Associate in Research Area D and E Gender (and Intersectionality)
Room 3.018
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 / (0)228 / 73 62569
ahussain@uni-bonn.de

Academic Profile
Asymmetrical dependencies among Pakistani migrants in Italy's "informal labour sector"
Ayesha Hussain is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology and a Research Associate in research area E “Gender and Intersectionality” and research area D “Labor and Spatiality” at BCDSS. Her research project is entitled "Asymmetrical dependencies among Pakistani migrants in Italy's informal labour sector: The role of Social Capital". She analyses these dependencies within the micro and meso level structures of migration including families, ethnic networks and diasporas focusing on the mobilisation of social capital of networks particularly within the informal labour sector in Italy.
2019–2022
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (South Asian Studies), University of Bonn, Germany
2014–2017
M.B.A. in Corporate Social Responsibility and NGO Management
2002–2005
MPhil in Anthropology, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
1998–2000
MSc in Anthropology, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2019–present
Research Associate in Research Area E Gender (and Intersectionality), University of Bonn, Germany
2002–2003
Research Anthropologist, Population Council, Islamabad, Pakistan
2000
Research Assistant, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan