My scholarship revolves around the cultural histories and socio-political legacies of modern migrations, and is located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist critique, and critical race theory. My work examines how migrations generate forms of postcolonial belonging and unbelonging in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in Asia, Africa, and the United States. In its sustained commitment to how gender and sexuality shape the public sphere negotiation of citizenship, nationalism, intimacy, and human rights I work on, my scholarship also contributes to transnational Gender and Sexuality Studies.