Dr. Nanneke Winters

Biography

Nanneke Winters is an Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies. Her ethnographic work explores the role and experience of mobility in people's lives across Central America and beyond, particularly focusing on cross-border labor, care work, and migrant trajectories. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a specialization in Cultural Anthropology from Radboud University Nijmegen, a Master’s in Latin American Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Antwerp. Her research examines gendered violence, migrant livelihoods, and the dynamics of displacement and emplacement. She has conducted extensive multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, collaborating with institutions such as the Nitlapan Development Institute in Managua. Winters has also worked on projects addressing the experiences of African Caribbean migrants in Central America, contributing to critical discussions on migration and development. At ISS, she is involved in teaching courses related to migration and is open to supervising PhD students on related research topics.

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