Amporn’s research interests are on media flows and mobility of people across national boundaries, particularly on the movement of Shan migrants from Myanmar into Thailand. Her publications have centered on the construction of migrant identities through media consumption, ethnic media production in Myanmar, and the formation of Shan migrant identity. She also has focused on cross border flows of Thai television series to Asian countries and the audience reception of Thai popular culture. Her recent research involves the (re)construction of masculinity among Shan migrant men who engaged in sex work in Chiang Mai, Thailand.