Masaya Llavaneras Blanco is assistant professor at the Centre for Global Social Innovation at Huron University College (Western University, Canada). Her research centres migration and care work in the Caribbean and South America, specifically in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Her work has been published in Social Politics, Global Social Policy, and Political Geography, among others. Her work includes a “Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)” (with Antulio Rosales, Social Politics, 2025); and “The travels of an exotic bird: The transnational trajectories of Venezuela’s constitutional recognition of the value of unpaid work,” Global Social Policy, 2017). She was the research coordinator of Venezuela’s first national Time Use Survey.