I am an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam in the Department of Political Science specialized in the politics of domestic and care work. I am particularly interested in political decision-making relating to childcare, elderly care and domestic work, the representation of precarious workers in such decision making, and the role of migrant workers as care providers. I earned my PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2011) with a dissertation on the politics and practices of migrant care work in different European welfare regimes and worked at the University of Bremen, Germany, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam before starting my current position at the University of Amsterdam. At the University of Amsterdam, I teach in the political Science Bachelor and Master programmes and function as Program Director of the Social Science Research Master. I am dedicated to promoting care workers’ rights and policy change. Within CareOrg I am responsible for the policy analysis part together with Petra Ezzedine and Mihaela Hărăguș. I will also work together with Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Petra Ezzeddine and Kristine Krause on shared infrastructures that are used for new destination countries (Netherlands) for migrant care workers from Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

I am an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam within the department of anthropology. My work is situated at the intersection of political and medical anthropology with particular attention to history. Coming from migration studies, I am interested in how transnational economic inequalities play out in the provision and organization of care and how care is implicated in questions of citizenship, political subjectivity and belonging. Within CareOrg I will work together with Franca van Hooren, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Petra Ezzeddine on shared infrastructures that are used for new destination countries (Netherlands) for migrant care workers from Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. I furthermore function as advisor for questions of how to do research in contexts of dementia care, based on my work within the Long Term, Care and Dementia Research Group of the Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. My involvement in CareOrg furthermore corresponds well with my ERC funded project Relocating Care within Europe: Moving the elderly to places where care is more affordable. The project studies the recent trend to relocate German speaking seniors to care homes in Central and Eastern European countries where the quality of care is high yet costs are lower.

Link to the project: https://www.relocatingcare.org/

I am currently a social science research master’s student at the University of Amsterdam and work as research intern in the Amsterdam team. I completed my undergraduate degree in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Here I got interested in the social sciences in general, and social research in particular. This inspired me to do a postgraduate degree in Social Anthropology, still in Edinburgh. During this time I focused mainly on medical anthropology and anthropology of the body. Various (corporate) jobs, and one pandemic, later, my growing interest into the complex experiences surrounding (health) care motivated my application for the social science research masters at the UVA. My role in this project as a research intern is to map out and investigate agencies and the migration of carers from CEE to the Netherlands.