Lalaine Siruno is a Researcher/PhD Fellow at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT.
Lalaine's PhD project is a qualitative empirical project involving Filipino migrants (particularly those working in the domestic sector) in the Netherlands. It explores how migration status interacting with other macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors bears upon the functionings or human development outcomes of both individual migrants and their households. The project focuses on functionings that manifest through the mechanisms of remittances and of recognition. It also discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resilience strategies adopted by migrant domestic workers. Since 2022, Lalaine is also working as a researcher in the Horizon Europe MIrreM Project (Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies). She has held research and/or teaching positions in various higher education institutions including the the University of the Philippines - Diliman, University of Oslo, and TU Delft. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Research interests: Migration and (human) development Irregular (undocumented) migration Irregular migration stocks and flows Migration and remittances Migration and COVID-19 Labour migration and ethical recruitment Transnationalism