Carolien Lubberhuizen is a PhD candidate at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University and at the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, under supervision of dr. Ilse van Liempt, dr. Gideon Bolt and prof. dr. Karel Arnaut. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht, where she did research on the changing dynamics of a superdiverse marketplace in Palermo, and on the ways farmers at the Irish border negotiated an uncertain post-Brexit future.
She started her PhD within the Horizon2020 project ReROOT, conducting ethnographic research on arrival infrastructures for and by agricultural migrant workers in the Netherlands (Westland) and Belgium (Haspengouw). The research looks into the ways the underlying regimes of agri-food, labour and migration create the unequal structures of this system. How do migrant workers and other actors navigate, reproduce or resist these precarities and, building on these creativities, what would be alternative and more inclusive and just ways of infrastructuring this system?