I am the Director Property Services & UNI Care at UNI Global Union - Europa since 2018.  I am coordinating the trade union side in the Sectoral Social Dialogues in Cleaning and Private Securtiy amongst other things. I also act as a trade union expert for European Works Councios in these sectors. In the care sector, I was one of the initiatiors of the Sectoral Social Dialogue in Personal and Household Services in 2022 and have negotiated the first ever global agreement on labour rights in the healthcare sector. Prior to that, I have worked as a trade union organizer in the UK and Germany, as well as a labour researcher with a focus on Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, Trade Unions and Migrant Labour. I have written extensively for academic and other outlets on work, labour and economics.

Selected publications:

• Bergfeld, M. (2021). Community through Corporatisation? The Case of Spanish Nurses in the German Care Industry in: Martín-Díaz, E. & Roca, B. (Eds.). Migrant Organising: Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage (59–80). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004464964_004

I am an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw (Poland). My research focuses on the role of social networks in migration, irregular migration, and migrant domestic work. I am currently a researcher in the project Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Institutions, Interests and Policies (PRIME). I am the co-editor of the book "Ukrainian Migration to the European Union: Lessons from Migration Studies"(2016)and the author of the book "A Risky Business? Ukrainian Migrant Women in Warsaw’s Domestic Work Sector"(2011). I worked as a Migration and Freedom of Movement Advisor at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (2009-2011). I am a Board Member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies".

Selected publications:

• Kindler, M. & M. Szulecka (2022). Messy Arrangements? A Social Networks Perspective on Migrant Labor Brokerage: The Case of Ukrainian Migration to Poland. Polish Sociological Review, 220(4), 457-484. https://doi.org/10.26412/psr220.03
• Kindler, M. (2017). Book Review: Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe: Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 25 (1), 66-68, DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2017.1282887
• Górny, A. & M. Kindler (2016) The Temporary Nature of Ukrainian Migration: Definitions, Determinants and Consequences in: Fedyuk, O. & Kindler M. (Eds). Ukrainian migration to the European Union. Lessons from Migration Studies. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer Open. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41776-9_6
• Kindler, M. & A. Rosińska (2015). Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, XVIII-XXI c. In E. van Nederveen Meerkerk, S. Neusinger & D. Hoerder (Eds.). Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers, Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280144_008

I am a social researcher and doctor of social sciences in the discipline of political science. I completed my Master's degree at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University in Ukraine and at University of Warsaw in Poland. I am member of the Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH) at Kozminski University and of the Polish Sociological Association (Migration Sociology and Qualitative Sociology sections). My research interests mainly include Ukrainian migration, women's migration, the relationship at the interface of state and international migration, migrants' social and political inclusion and qualitative research methods.

I am currently a researcher in the projects "BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities" (OPUS-19, NCN), Link4Skills (Horizon 2023), and the Warsaw Talent Cluster project (in cooperation with the Warsaw City Hall).

I was also a researcher in the projects: "MIMY: Empowerment through liquid integration of migrant youth in vulnerable conditions" (Horizon 2020) and "The Impact of COVID 19 on Ukrainian Women Migrants in Poland" (funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation) and others. Between 2017 and 2023, I was the coordinator of integration projects at the Ukrainian House Foundation.

Selected publications:

• Fedyuk, O., Kyliushyk, I. & Lashchuk, I. (2023). New (im)possibilites for agriculture and domestic services in Poland and Italy? Navigating legal solutions and social organisations' support for Ukrainian women displaced by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. CMR Working Papers 134 (192).
• Cope B., Keryk, M. & Kyliushyk, I. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on Ukrainian women migrants in Poland. Foundation "Our Choice" in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw.

I am a social anthropologist working as a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. My main research focuses on various aspects of both paid and unpaid care. My previous research focused on paid domestic workers: I am author or co-author of books on Slovak au pairs living and working in London (“Au Pair”, Polity, 2010) and on paid domestic workers in Slovakia (“Pani k deťom a na upratovanie”, Muni press, 2017). I am currently PI of a project on care, surveillance and digital technologies.

Selected publications:

• Sekeráková Búriková, Z. & Valkovičová, V. (2024). Introduction to the Thematic Issue. Beyond the Ideal: Surveillance, Control, and the Complexities of Care. Sociológia, 56(4), 285–301.
• Sekeráková Búriková, Z. (2023). Decolonising demand for paid domestic work and childcare: Beyond dyadic relationships and Western models. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 30(4), 440–454.
• Sekeráková Búriková, Z. (2021). Invisible in homes, visible in cities: visibility and dis/empowerment in paid domestic work in London. Gender, Place and Culture, 28 (12), 1695–1714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1835832
• Sekeráková Búriková, Z. (2019). Au Pairs, Nannies and Baby-Sitters: Paid Care as a Temporary Life Course Experience in Slovakia and in the UK. Feminist Review, 122 (2), 80–94.

I specialize in critical social theory, feminist theory, and the study of global interactions. My current research revolves around interdisciplinary analyses of the political economy of transnational migration, border processes and structural injustice, transnational social reproduction, and the commodification of care, with a regional expertise focused on Central Europe and East Africa. I am a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and an external research affiliate at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. I am a member of the Management Committee of the COST network Data Matters: Socio-technical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG). I have been a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley, USA (2008-2009), a visiting researcher at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (2018-2019; 2022-2023), and held other fellowships in Brazil, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, and France.

Selected publications:

• Uhde, Z. (2024). Transnational Migration and the Extractivist Logic of Global Capitalism: The EU–Eastern Africa Geopolitical Space. In R. D. Wise, B. Likić-Brborić, R. Munck & C.-U. Schierup (Eds.). Handbook on Migration and Development (245–262). Edward Elgar.
• Uhde, Z. (2024). Distorted Emancipation and the Transnational Political Economy of Social Reproduction. In B. Aulenbacher, H. Lutz, E. Palenga-Möllenbeck & K. Schwiter (Eds.). Home care for sale: The transnational brokering of senior care in Europe (112–126). Sage.
• Uhde, Z. (2021). Structural misrecognition of migrants as a critical cosmopolitan moment. In G. Schweiger (Ed.). Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory (309–331). Springer.
• Uhde, Z. & Ezzeddine, P. (2020). The political economy of translocal social reproduction: cross-border care mobility in the Czech Republic. In A. Melegh & N. Katona (Eds.). Towards a Scarcity of Care. Tensions and Contradictions in Transnational Elderly Care in Central and Eastern Europe (26–44). Budapest: FES. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/budapest/16945.pdf
• Uhde, Z. (2016). From women’s struggles to distorted emancipation: The interplay of care practices and global capitalism. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 18 (3), 390–408. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2015.1121603.