Svoboda Stoeva

Svoboda Stoeva is an independent researcher based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, where in 2018 she defended her doctoral thesis “‘Asylum Seeker’ Status: Boundaries, Categories, Discourses”. Her research explores forms of human suffering as socially and institutionally produced experiences, focusing on how physical and symbolic boundaries, administrative categories, and public discourses shape the lives of people in vulnerable positions.