Migr-Age
“MIGRants’ strAtegies in carinG for and receiving care from their Elderly parents: Designing paths at the intersection of border, care and labour regimes“
Migr-Age is a 3-year research project funded by the European Commission. It studies how migrants, and especially Colombians, care for and receive care from their ageing parents.
Objectives
Migr-Age aims at understanding how the intersection of care, border and labour regimes shapes the strategies of adult migrants to care for and receive care from their ageing parents. The project focuses on the experience of Colombian families in Italy and Canada, in which elderly parents are (or were until recently) living in Colombia.
The project aims to:
- compare care policies and programmes, including access to health care, that are implemented in Italy, Canada, and Colombia, and analyse the extent to which they are accessible for Colombian migrants’ elderly parents
- Identify the public, private, and third-sector actors that provide or facilitate access to care services, paying specific attention to the conditions set to access such services
- Identify the specific strategies that migrant families enact to care for and receive care from elderly parents, paying specific attention to the way strategies are shaped by care, border and labour regimes
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
Anne-Iris Romens is a Colombian and French researcher in Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Padua), a European Master’s degree in Human Rights (E.MA at the EIUC, Venice), and a Master’s degree in Political Science (Sciences Po Strasbourg, France). Her academic background includes five years of postdoctoral experience at the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Padua in Italy. She also worked for over three years as a Research Assistant at the Council of Europe, and has worked and volunteered for various institutions and NGOs across Italy, Colombia, France, and Brazil. She is also a member of the Global Labour Journal editorial board. Her research focuses on migration, care, ageing, labour, industrial relations, and remote work, all analysed through an intersectional and decolonial perspective.
Supervisors
Methods
🌎 Fieldwork will be conducted in Canada, Colombia and Italy
MIGR-AGE adopts a qualitative multi-sited approach that is based on the combination of 5 methods:
📚 Literature review
🔎 Policy analysis: the project foresees analysing policies and programmes in Canada, Italy and Colombia that regulate and condition migrants’ elderly parents’ access to care services
📢 Interviews with distinct stakeholders:
- Practitioners at the local level, including care service managers, social workers, care workers, NGOs supporting or representing migrants and union officers
- Colombian adult migrants whose parents live in or lived in Colombia until recently
- Ageing parents of Colombian migrants
📹 Participatory video making: 2 short participatory videos will be elaborated with participants in the research
🗣️ Restitution meetings: Preliminary results will be presented in each context and discuss with participants and other relevant stakeholders
When?
From July 2026 to July 2028
Links
Project on EU Cordis Portal – Research Gate – Google Scholar
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