Yva Alexandrova (she/her)

Yva Alexandrova is a second year PhD candidate at the Centre for Doctoral Training on New Horizons in Borders and Bordering, University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the datafication of migration and the use of the digital status as a form of biopolitical control over racialised migrants in the UK. Prior to this, she held policy liaison and research roles at Internation Organization for Migration (IOM – UN Migration) in the Middle East. Yva has worked on promoting policy dialogues on migration with a range of stakeholders in government and civil society, as well as promoting the use of migrants’ experiences in policy and research. She has written extensively on migration issues in a policy setting, most recently on the Impact of COVID-19 on Labour Mobility Frameworks in the Gulf countries (ADD, 2021); Migrants’ perspectives on integration in the UK (Asylum Aid, 2018) and Socio-Economic Effects of Public Investments for Roma Inclusion in Kavarna (CSD, 2015). Yva has an MSc degree in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), United Kingdom and a BA from the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Bulgaria.