Dr Laura Antona

Laura is a critical and feminist human geographer whose work both draws upon and contributes to feminist political economy, urban geography, and critical migration studies, while methodological innovation. Her research focuses primarily on labour, migration, gender, and violence in both Southeast Asia and Europe.

Laura holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and both an MSc and BSc from University College London.

Based on a decade of research in Southeast Asia and prolonged ethnographic fieldwork, Laura’s currently working on a book project which focuses on the experiences of women who have experienced forced migrant removal in Southeast Asia. Laura also has an ongoing collaborative project (with Sneha Krishnan at the University of Oxford) on abolition domesticities. This work builds on research she conducted while completing an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment. Finally, Laura has also begun archival and ethnographic research on the legacy of forced migration within and from Cyprus.

Laura has published work in venues such as: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; and Social and Cultural Geography.

Expertise

Feminist political economy; Labour migration; Violence; Care; Domesticity and domestic work; Gender; Southeast Asia