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Mirna Nadia, PhD

IFAR Fellow

Mirna Nadia, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta. She earned a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in International Health from Uppsala University. Her master’s research studies unmarried adolescents’ access to contraceptives and the demographic factors that contributed to their likelihood to use contraceptives. Drawing on Demographic and Health Survey data, her research shows that disadvantaged unmarried population groups are less likely to access contraceptives and reproductive health services despite the stated commitment of governments and healthcare providers to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Mirna’s doctoral project focuses on the politics underlying policy and legal framework that is based on assumptions about heteronormative family arrangements. Her research primarily relies on archival research to examine how these assumptions are used to govern citizens and how the resulting regulations may further disadvantage already marginalized groups whose burdens of care are often misrecognized. Mirna’s research interests lie at the intersection between critical citizenship studies and gender and sexuality studies, with a focus on the family as a locus where both the moral and political dimensions of being ‘good’ citizens are evident.