Marhabo Saparova is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University. Her work explores the intersections of migration, gender, and urban transformations, with a focus on post-1990 mobilities and sociopolitical changes. Rooted in her homeland regions of Central Asia and the MENA, her research traces the lived experiences of movement, displacement, and belonging across borders. From 2021 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Sabancı University’s Women and Gender Studies Center of Excellence, where she contributed to the EU Horizon 2020 ReROOT project by examining the everyday infrastructures that support migrants’ arrival and integration in Turkey. In the current project "Ancestral Citizenship in Europe" she investigates how claims to ancestral citizenship (re)shape ideas of home, identity, and belonging in contemporary Europe.
