Shreya Bhat is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University. She explores the engagement of West African migrant workers in formal and informal economies in Italy, and their utilisation of money transfer services to remit money to family members across borders. Broadly, her research interests include gender and migration, transnational households, remittances, irregular migration from West and North Africa, and migration governance along the Central Mediterranean Route. Outside of academia, she has over six years of experience working on issues concerning migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, including with grassroots organisations in India, the International Organisation for Migration's (IOM) in Libya, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) in Somalia, the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) in the Asia and the Pacific, and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).