Damini Purkayastha 

Damini Purkayastha is a PhD researcher at Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and a Visiting Scholar at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Grad Centre, CUNY. Her doctoral research, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 HumMingBird project, focuses on the lived experience of skilled migration policies in Europe. Voices of migrants shape her analysis of labour market restrictions in Europe, as she examines how intersections with gender, race, and class exacerbate existing inequalities. Damini has an MA in English Literature (LSR, Delhi University, India), an Advanced Master in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium) and draws on her decade-long experience as a journalist in New Delhi and the Netherlands.