Stefani Vasil

Stefani Vasil is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Stef completed her PhD in Global Studies at RMIT University in 2021. Her research examines the intersections between migration processes and gendered violence. Through interviews with migrant women and stakeholders, her PhD thesis explored the ways that insecure migration status intersected with other social inequalities to shape women’s lived experiences of family violence and their responses. This work examined precarity in relation to migrant women's lives in Australia and how it functions as a structural condition that can heighten women's vulnerability to violence and undermine their significant efforts to ensure their safety and survival. Stef is interested in contributing to scholarship that adopts an intersectional and transnational approach and that advocates for migrant women’s meaningful inclusion in efforts to address violence at a range of levels.

Stef joined the Centre in 2021 and contributes to their research on migration and family violence. She has a forthcoming book co-authored with Professor Marie Segrave entitled, The borders of violence: temporary migration and domestic and family violence (Routledge). Her work has also been published in the British Journal of Criminology, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence Against Women and the Women’s Studies International Forum. She is a member of the National Advocacy Group on Women on Temporary Visas Experiencing Family Violence.