Ana Luisa Micaelo has a PhD in Anthropology (2014). She published one ethnographic monograph, several book chapters, articles and papers about the ownership dynamics in land reform settlements on the former sugarcanne plantations of Pernambuco (Brazil). Currently she is a Pos-doctoral Fellow at ISCTE-IUL and integrated researcher at CRIA, where she is doing research on the meanings, livelihoods and policies of foreclosure in Lisbon, developing the project "The house of debt: credit constraints and house ownership in contemporary Portugal". She is co-coordinator of the CRIA's research group "Governance, Policies and Livelihoods", member of the team project “LIVEPOLITICS Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2008-2018” (PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017), and actively engaged in other institutional and networking activities, from the Portuguese Anthropology Association (APA) to European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).