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Miss Franchesca Rose Morais commenced her appointment as Research Assistant with the Asian Migration Cluster on 1 July 2020.

She completed her BSocSci (Hons) in Geography with a minor in Urban Studies at NUS in 2020. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Geography at NUS where she is exploring the migration trajectories of transnational families and how COVID-19 might affect future considerations and experiences of transnational familyhood. Her research interests include a wide range of topics related to ethnic and migration studies, where she is primarily interested in transnational relationships, family dynamics, mobility regimes and negotiations of citizenship across a range of migration categories from highly skilled to low wage labour migrants. At ARI, she provides assistance for various migration research projects including Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA), and Transnationalism and Diaspora.