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My academic background lies in transnational sociology, refugee and forced migration studies and gender and sexuality studies, which together brought me to the field of queer migration studies. To understand the places, spaces and communities in which people live, as well as the roles and dynamics of diverse actors I rely largely on fieldwork as a research method. Students whose research interests relate to these areas are welcome to join my seminar. Together, we engage with the complex and richly layered experiences, perceptions, practices and histories of individuals and communities that cannot be fully contained within state‑centred frameworks and logics. We adopt approaches that question dominant notions and subjects from the margins. In doing so, I hope we can also critically reflect on our own positionalities as researchers and on the often-unequal relationships between researchers and those who become the “subjects” of research.