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Martina Boese is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University's Department of Social Inquiry, where she has been employed since 2015. She currently serves as Graduate Research Coordinator (2024-2025) and previously held leadership roles including Department Research Lead (2022), Sociology Program Convenor (2020-2021), and Deputy Graduate Research Coordinator (2023-present). Her academic journey includes positions as Lecturer in Sociology (2015-2019), Research Fellow at RMIT University (2013-2015), and Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2009-2013).
Boese's research centers on migration, employment, and social inequality within policy and governance frameworks. She examines intersections of culture and economy, particularly how inequalities and precarity emerge through regulations, social practices, and cultural perspectives. Her work spans regional migration and settlement, migrants' social/spatial mobilities, precarious employment, temporary migrant/refugee experiences, Australian migration policies, refugee discourse, and racialisation in workplaces. She actively collaborates with government and community sector stakeholders to advance fairer societies.
Her publication portfolio includes 43 research outputs highlighted by articles in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sociology, alongside the monograph Becoming Australian (MUP 2013) and edited volume Critical Reflections on Migration, 'Race' and Multiculturalism (Routledge 2017). Her recent work (2020-2024) demonstrates consistent focus on regional migration dynamics, precarious labor, and critical policy analysis across Australian contexts.
As an educator, Boese developed and taught subjects including Gender Mobilities and Development, Ethnicity and Identity, and Mobility Work and Society. She serves as convenor of the TASA Thematic Group on Rural Issues and previously co-chaired the TASA Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group (2013-2016). Her professional activities include organizing workshops on community-engaged research and symposia on regional migration challenges.
