Giulia Cabras is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a PhD in Language Sciences (2016) from the Paris National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). Her research explores various aspects of multilingualism in Northwest China, particularly focusing on language contact and language ideologies. In addition to her research monograph, “Alternance codique entre le ouïghour et le chinois: Une étude de cas sur la communauté linguistique ouïghoure de Ürümchi” (Lincom, 2018), she has published peer-reviewed articles in The International Journal of Multilingualism, The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Central Asian Affairs, Chinese Perspectives, and The International Journal of Chinese Linguistics.