Zana is a junior researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. With a background in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Sociology, she works on topics around migration, family life and well-being. In her Master’s thesis, she explored how illegalised migrants practise citizenship beyond the limits their ‘informal status’ imposes on them.

She is currently involved in the research project Sarphati Ethnography, which studies the first 1000 days of life among first-time parents in Amsterdam through a practice approach. Within this longitudinal panel study, Zana explores well-being by unpacking how everyday life unfolds and changes over time.

Within the TimingStress project, she examines how stress does, or does not, play a role in parental well-being by looking at how parents temporalise everyday life. She also explores how parents trust and distrust during this period of their lives.