Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, principal investigator of AspirE project, is associate researcher (chercheuse qualifiée) of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and senior lecturer (maîtresse d'enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) in Université libre de Bruxelles. For the last eighteen years, she has been working on migration-related issues and phenomena in Europe-Asia social spaces, notably involving the Philippines, Thailand, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Her recent works include the volume Tangled Mobilities. Places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration (co-edited with G. Liu-Farrer, Berghahn, 2022) and the Special Issue “Magnified precarity, re-enhanced agency: The COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Filipino migrant workers in different contexts” (co-edited with I. Nagasaka, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2025).
