He works on digital migration studies, and he is the principal investigator of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research-funded study “Young Connected Migrants. Comparing Digital Practices of Young Asylum Seekers and Expatriates in the Netherlands,” and the Dutch National Research Agenda funded participatory action research project “Media literacy through Making Media: A Key to Participation for Young Newcomers.” He is the chair of the European Communication Research and Education (ECREA) Diaspora, Migration and the Media section. Recently he guest-edited a special issue on “Connected migrants: Encapsulation and cosmopolitaniza- tion” for Popular Communication. International Journal of Media and Culture (volume 16.1, 2018). Currently, he is co-editing the Sage Handbook of Media and Migration.