Stemming from the backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology and sociology, her research interests concentrate of the symbolic politics and cultural dimensions of European integration and discourses of integration. She has recently turned to studying the role of leisure in migrants’ lives and their ideas of good life. She is the author of the two monographs on discourses and cultural practices of identity construction, mobility and socio-cultural change as well as the author and co-author of the articles in such journals as ‘Leisure Sciences’, ‘Ethnologie francaise’, ‘Lud’ and ‘Anthropological Journal of European Cultures’.