Sharon Anyango is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. She holds an MA in Globalization and Development Studies and an MBA in Project Management. Prior, she was a Teaching Fellow at FASoS and a staff representative in the University Council.
Her research, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), focusses on evolving gender expectations of East African refugees in the Netherlands. She specifically looks at Somali and Eritrean refugees who have been in the Netherlands for at least five years, and how they negotiate and construct gender expectations. Her research draws on intersectionality, gender performativity, gender construction and negotiation, and the lifecycle approach as key concepts to understand the complex factors influencing gender negotiation and construction within refugee communities. The project innovatively applies methods from the humanities discipline to contribute to social sciences dominated discussions about gender expectations amongst immigrants and refugee integration. Read More
