Authors

Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff holds a master’s degree in global political economy from the University of Kassel. She is now a research fellow in the Department of Migration and Society at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Previously she worked as the chair of Politics of Labor Migration and the International Center for Development and Decent Work at the University of Kassel. She is one of the coordinators of the Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights and the editor of its newsletter. Her research interests are migration, social movements, labor rights, and minorities. Currently she is pursuing a doctorate in social studies at the University of Osnabrück on advocacy for Roma in Germany and the Czech Republic.

Majda Hrženjak holds a PhD in sociology and is a researcher at the Peace Institute–Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research topics include gender studies, including critical studies of men and masculinities, and social politics, in particular the concept of care in relation to gender, migration, citizenship, and democracy. With others she conducted the first national study of informal paid care work from the perspective of gender, globalization, and intersectionality. Currently she is conducting a project titled “Care Work between Individualization, Socialization, and Globalization.” Her publications include the sole-authored Invisible Work (Peace Institute, 2007) and edited volume Politics of Care (Peace Institute, 2011), as well as book chapters “In the Grips of Work/Family Imbalance: Local and Migrant Domestic Workers in Slovenia” (with Mojca Pajnik, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and “Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time” (Brill, 2015).

Živa Humer received her PhD in sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in 2009. She is a research fellow at the Peace Institute–Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her main research interests cover gender and gender equality politics, social and family policy, family life and work-life balance, and topics related to antidiscrimination policies, violence, and homophobia. The author of numerous articles in the field of care, gender, and family life, she has also coauthored two books in Slovenian: New Fatherhood in Slovenia (Faculty of Social Sciences, 2008) and The Faces of Homophobia (Peace Institute, 2012), and coedited the e-book in Slovenian Fathers: Short Stories about Parenting (Peace Institute, 2016).

Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). She teaches courses on economic anthropology and material culture. She is particularly interested in paid care and domestic work, material culture, and consumption. Together with Daniel Miller she published the book Au Pair (Polity, 2010) on the experiences of Slovak au pairs and their host families in London. While she continues to write about au pairs, her current research project “Paid Childcare and Domestic Work in the Czech Republic and Slovakia” deals with recently developed commodified childcare and domestic work. Her second book, Doing Cleaning and Childcare: Paid Domestic Work in Slovakia, will be published by Muni Press in 2017.

Olga Tkach holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in sociology (since 2008) and is a researcher at the Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2012–2013 she coordinated the research area “Migrations, Ethnicity, Nationalism” at CISR. Over the last eight years, Tkach has worked as a guest researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies in Oslo and the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, and has held temporary positions at the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) and Swansea University, Wales (UK). She has published over 50 works, including two coedited volumes and two special thematic issues in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests involve migration and mobility, domestic work and home, private and family life, Soviet society and postsocialist transformations.

Elena Zdravomyslova is a professor and codirector of the Gender Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. She has written over 50 articles, edited five collections of scholarly chapters, and published one sole-authored book. Her current research interest is aging studies. She has taught courses on qualitative methods in social research, gender relations in Russia, gender sociology, sociology of social movements, and theories of social inequality and stratification.