Visiting researcher PhD student Antía Eijo Mejuto in Frankfurt

Such initiatives emerge with the aim of encountering the precarisation of working conditions in a context where the demand of home-based care work is increasing, but also changing its nature, with the need of more intensive services and the consequent growth of live-in care work. The analytical framework that guides the analysis is provided by feminist theorists' approaches linking struggles for social reproduction and the 'paradigm of the commons' (Martínez-Buján et al., 2021; Federici, 2018; Vega et al., 2018). Antía Eijo Mejuto works as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña. She graduated in Social Work at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2018) and studied the Master in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2020). In 2022, she was granted with a pre-doctoral scholarship from the Galician Government (Xunta de Galicia), which allows her to develop her doctoral thesis about domestic and care workers' cooperatives. In recent years, she has also worked as a social worker and social intervention technician in the field of migration and rural development. In line with this, her research interests have focused mainly on gender, migration and care. She is currently a member of the ESOMI research team. Her Phd project is being developed at the University of A Coruña, under the supervision of Raquel Martínez-Buján. The research is part of the Project Caremodelcom, which at the same time is part of a coordinated project funded by the National R+D Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation entitled "The long-term care model in transition (Caremodel)" that aims to analyse the current model of care for the elderly and dependent people, while offering new formulas from which to configure mechanisms that encourage interdependence and mutual care.