Nilan Yu is a lecturer in social work at the University of South Australia. He has been involved in teaching and researching social work and social development for over two decades. Before joining academia, he was engaged in community development work in urban communities populated by informal settlers/squatters in the Philippines. His current research interests are in the areas of disability, migration and its intersections with disability, ageing, critical practice and policy. He is co-editor of the book Subversive action: Extralegal practices for social justice (with Deena Mandell, 2015) and Faces of homelessness in the Asia Pacific (with Carole Zufferey, 2017).