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 de conference) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) in Université libre de Bruxelles. For the last fifteen 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 (coedited with G. Liu-Farrer, Berghahn, 2022) and the Special Issue “Challenging stereotypes in Europe-Thailand transnational migration” (co-edited with S. Sunanta, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2022).