I'm a migration researcher, filmmaker, and writer working at Sophia University in Tokyo. My work explores how people move across borders and build new lives—questions of migration, gender, memory, culture, class, identity and the digital worlds that shape contemporary mobility. 

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Before I became a researcher, I was a migrant trying to make sense of my own journey. Born and raised in New Delhi, I began my career working for Japanese companies in India—a path that eventually brought me to Japan in 2007. Living here reshaped the stories I follow and the questions I ask, revealing how movement, belonging and everyday life intersect in ways I hadn't anticipated.

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From 2021 to 2024, I lived in Berlin as an affiliated researcher at the Free University of Berlin, working on a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. That period expanded my understanding of European migration contexts and added new layers to my ongoing work on identity, community and transnational life.

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Alongside academic writing, I use film as a way of listening and observing. My documentaries follow people—migrants building homes, negotiating work, caring for families, finding meaning in unfamiliar places. These films are a bridge between research and lived experience, a way of preserving voices and reaching audiences beyond the academic world.

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Across classrooms, articles, books, and films, my aim is simple: to humanize migration stories and explore how identities, relationships, and futures shift when people move. Migration is never just about crossing borders. It's about making homes, cultivating belonging, imagining new possibilities. Those are the stories I'm here to tell.