I am a PhD researcher in Sociology in the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki studying migrant care and domestic work in Finland. During the spring semester of 2022 I am a Fulbright visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research.

My PhD research develops an analysis of migrant care and domestic work as integrated within contemporary modes of production and reproduction. I situate migrant care and domestic work in the realm of political economy by examining the ways in which both state regulation and the logic of capital configure the role of this work. My work theorises social reproduction as outsourced and paid work and examines its close structural links with production. In my work I also emphasise the shifting social organisation of reproductive labour as well as the changing formation of class.

The analysis draws on in-depth semi-structured thematic interviews conducted with migrant care and domestic workers and au pairs living and working in Finland, with private employers of migrant care and domestic workers and au pairs and companies that employ migrant workers in Finland.