Yizhen Wang

Yizhen Wang is a PhD candidate in sociology and anthropology at Université Paris Cité (CESSMA). Her research focuses on digital labour, global value chains, and gendered work in the context of outsourced customer service. She is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo on Egyptian female call centre workers. Her work explores the intersections of digital capitalism, labour, and everyday forms of resistance.

The project

Title: Beneath the Night’s Veil: Gendered Labour and Everyday Resistance among Egyptian Female Call Centre Workers