Sabina Lawreniuk

Sabina has an international and interdisciplinary background: having read for an undergraduate degree in Politics at Durham, she joined the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia in 2008 to pursue a Masters in Development Studies.  At the RUPP, she also spend two years as a research assistant contributing to IDRC-funded project on Migration, Rural Poverty and Natural Resource Management, themes that inform her PhD work. 

Here at King’s, Sabina is a member of the Environment, Politics and Development Research Group and contributes to teaching in both the Geography and Political Economy Departments.

Migration as Distinction? Rural-Urban Migration, Consumption and Class in Contemporary Cambodia

Member of the Environment, Politics and Development research group.

Sabina’s research examines the shifting bases of production and consumption in the global South. Drawing on multivariate statistical analysis in conjunction with detailed ethnographic research, her PhD work explores the interrelated roles of changing patterns of labour migration and everyday consumption practices in the reproduction and transformation of class structures in contemporary Cambodia.