Maria Shaidrova

Maria Shaidrova is a PhD researcher (NWO funded Research Talent Grant) based in the Tilburg Law School. She has an MSc in Sociology of Migration and Ethnic Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Before starting her PhD project, she worked as a full time researcher at the Tilburg International Victimology Institute studying how sex work regulation policies might create conditions for exploitation and trafficking in human beings. Her current research is focused on the persistence in risk-taking among West Africans migrating to the EU. More precisely, she is focusing on Nigerian and Gambian nationals. Maria is using the method of trajectories, multi-cited and visual ethnography in her projects.