Digital platforms/body-territory

My current research project entitled “Platform body-territory politics: gendered geographies of Santiago de Chile’s digitalising borderlands” is funded by funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility fellowship (2025-27).

The project seeks to explore how everyday processes of digitalisation and datafication shape migrant women’s embodied experiences in Santiago de Chile, with a focus on the unequal politics of labour and homemaking.

Drawing on ethnographic work with Latin American migrant women in Santiago, it asks how datafication reshapes and becomes embedded in the intimacies of everyday life in South-South migration contexts, from the everyday experiences of domestic workers with on-demand work apps, to digital platforms’ extensions into the home unfolding within AI and smart urban transformations.