Degrees

Anna Safuta is PhD student at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) in Belgium. Previously researcher at the European Social Observatory (OSE) in Brussels, she graduated in political science and earned a Masters in European studies from the Free University of Brussels (ULB). Her main research domains are elderly care, care regimes, gendered approaches of social policy, and feminism, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe and in Belgium.

PhD project description

Supervisor: Prof. Florence DEGAVRE, FOPES & CIRTES, SSH/IACS

Home Provision of Elderly Care by Migrants: A case study in Brussels and Warsaw

This PhD will examine the socio-economic principles of formal and informal home provision of elderly care by recently arrived migrants. It is an extremely topical research subject. Recent societal evolutions such as population ageing and increased female labour market participation have exacerbated the demand for elderly care in Europe, which is often ‘internally outsourced’ to migrant women from the East and the South. While care regimes and elderly care have already received a lot of attention in Western contexts, the situation in Central and Eastern European countries remains under-analysed. Through choosing such diverse case studies, the project also aims at answering the relative scarcity of East/West welfare state comparative approaches.

The research will also explore the hypothesis that recent societal changes in the way the labour, responsibility and costs of elderly care are divided between individuals (with a particular attention to gender, kinship and migrant status), families, markets, public authorities and the non-profit sector, as well as related changes in the socio-economic principles of provision, are driving policy change. The methodological stance will be to reverse the top-down approach prevailing in social policy analysis.

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2011 Article de périodique (Journal article) Safuta, Anna (2011). The Polish and EU Gender Regimes - Swimming in Opposite Directions?. In : GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society (2011), p. ecial Issue p 71-87. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108262. Contribution à ouvrage collectif (Book Chapter) Safuta, Anna (2011). Of permeable borders: Belgium as both source and host country. In :Wismar, Matthias; Maier, Claudia B.; Glinos, Irene A.; Dussault, Gilles & Figueras, Josep, Health professional mobility and health systems. Evidence from 17 European countries, Copenhagen : World Health Organization, p. 127-154. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108264. Safuta, Anna (2011). Poland: When Dual Earnership is Not Enough. In :Fraser, Neil; Gutiérrez, Rodolfo & Peña-Casas, Ramón, Working Poverty in Europe: A Comparative Approach, Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, p. 155-172. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108263. 2009 Article de périodique (Journal article) Safuta, Anna (2009). Les ONG féministes en Pologne. In : Chronique féministe (January-June 2009), p. 44-51. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108265.

Biography

Degrees

Anna Safuta is PhD student at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) in Belgium. Previously researcher at the European Social Observatory (OSE) in Brussels, she graduated in political science and earned a Masters in European studies from the Free University of Brussels (ULB). Her main research domains are elderly care, care regimes, gendered approaches of social policy, and feminism, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe and in Belgium.

Research

PhD project description

Supervisor: Prof. Florence DEGAVRE, FOPES & CIRTES, SSH/IACS

Home Provision of Elderly Care by Migrants: A case study in Brussels and Warsaw

This PhD will examine the socio-economic principles of formal and informal home provision of elderly care by recently arrived migrants. It is an extremely topical research subject. Recent societal evolutions such as population ageing and increased female labour market participation have exacerbated the demand for elderly care in Europe, which is often ‘internally outsourced’ to migrant women from the East and the South. While care regimes and elderly care have already received a lot of attention in Western contexts, the situation in Central and Eastern European countries remains under-analysed. Through choosing such diverse case studies, the project also aims at answering the relative scarcity of East/West welfare state comparative approaches.

The research will also explore the hypothesis that recent societal changes in the way the labour, responsibility and costs of elderly care are divided between individuals (with a particular attention to gender, kinship and migrant status), families, markets, public authorities and the non-profit sector, as well as related changes in the socio-economic principles of provision, are driving policy change. The methodological stance will be to reverse the top-down approach prevailing in social policy analysis.

Publications

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2011 Article de périodique (Journal article) Safuta, Anna (2011). The Polish and EU Gender Regimes - Swimming in Opposite Directions?. In : GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society (2011), p. ecial Issue p 71-87. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108262. Contribution à ouvrage collectif (Book Chapter) Safuta, Anna (2011). Of permeable borders: Belgium as both source and host country. In :Wismar, Matthias; Maier, Claudia B.; Glinos, Irene A.; Dussault, Gilles & Figueras, Josep, Health professional mobility and health systems. Evidence from 17 European countries, Copenhagen : World Health Organization, p. 127-154. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108264. Safuta, Anna (2011). Poland: When Dual Earnership is Not Enough. In :Fraser, Neil; Gutiérrez, Rodolfo & Peña-Casas, Ramón, Working Poverty in Europe: A Comparative Approach, Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, p. 155-172. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108263. 2009 Article de périodique (Journal article) Safuta, Anna (2009). Les ONG féministes en Pologne. In : Chronique féministe (January-June 2009), p. 44-51. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108265.