Ayesha Hussain

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