K.G.P. Strijbosch

Dr. Karlien Strijbosch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She is interested in how social structures and (global) inequalities shape people’s lives in intersecting ways. Her research focuses on practices of inclusion and exclusion, transnational mobilities, gender and sexuality, and relationships of care. She conducted research in multiple locations, including Singapore, Senegal, Germany, and the Netherlands. 

During her Ph.D. research she conducted a year of ethnographic research to investigate how Senegalese men returning from Europe positioned themselves after an aborted migration project. She defended her dissertation titled: 'Challenging masculinities? Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability' in 2025 at Maastricht University. 

She is currently working on the WELL-ASIA project headed by dr. Megha Amrith. The WELL-ASIA investigates the expanding and lucrative wellness industry in Southeast Asia, and the transnational mobilities and inequalities associated with it. Its primary objectives are to understand who and what drives the expansion of the wellness industry across contemporary Southeast Asia; and the social, economic and moral transformations that it generates.