Alia Amir is a social interaction researcher with a specialization in language policy and classroom interaction. In her academic publications, she has written about conversation analysis, code-switching, English language policy, language policing, and language policing and its effects on language classrooms. She lives in Stockholm with a spirit of Robinson Crusuoe discovering its natural beauty spread on several islands. She writes about her travels and about her experiences as a Kashmiri migrant who has lived in a couple of countries.