Kristel Acedera is a Research Associate in the Asian Migration Cluster. She holds an MSocSci degree in Geography from the National University of Singapore. Her current research interests explore how the intimacies of transnational familyhood unravel in and through the digital spaces and temporalities of communication technologies. She has published her work on this in peer-reviewed publications like Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies, International Journal of Communication, Current Sociology, and New Media and Society.