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Petra Ezzeddine PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on gender and migration, transnational care, social reproduction, the political economy and marketisation of care, ageing, and the organisation of domestic and senior care in Central and Eastern Europe.

She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Charles University in 2011 and an MA in Ethnology and Aesthetics from Comenius University in Bratislava in 1999. She has held visiting and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Padua, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has also worked as a Research Coordinator at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Prague.

Her current research examines transnational senior care, care migration, labour and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on live-in care and the changing organisation and marketisation of care. She has been involved as principal investigator, co-investigator, and senior researcher in several national and international research projects, including CareOrg, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and PERHOUSE, funded by the European Union's Horizon programme.

In 2020, Ezzeddine co-established the EuroCare research network, an international research network bringing together scholars working on care, migration, labour, and social reproduction across Europe. She is also a member of the State and Care research network at the University of Vienna. She has served on academic committees, editorial boards, and professional associations, and has contributed to policy-oriented research and expert consultations on migration, gender, family, and care.

Her publications address care migration, gender, transnational care practices, domestic work, ageing, and social reproduction, combining ethnographic research with critical approaches to migration, labour, and care policies.

Ongoing Research Project:

• CareOrg (founded by VW Stiftung): Researching the transnational organization of senior care,labour and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe. Project Website: https://careorg.eu/

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Publications (selected)

• Ezzedine, P. (2026). Bounded Transport, Mobility Justice, and Claims for Recognition Among Live‐in Care Workers. Social Inclusion, 14, Article 12191.

  https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12191

• Krause, K., Prieler, V., Horváth, H., Jelínek, M., Sapieha, M., Sekeráková Búriková, Z., Ezzeddine, P., & Schurian‐Dąbrowska, L. (2026). Care Outsourcing From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. Social Inclusion, 14, Article 12319. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12319

• Ezzeddine, P., & Matiaško, M. (2026). Live-in care on trial: The failed promise of solidarity in European care governance. Economy and Society, 55(2), 347–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2631338

• Ezzeddine, P. Solidarity and gratitude: Negotiating domestic work in ‘solidarity households’ housing Ukrainian refugees. Berlin J Soziol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11609-025-00576-1

• Ezzeddine, P., & Uhde, Z. (2025). Borderscapes of care in Europe: The case of Czech live-in care workers in Germany (pp. 399–418). In R. N. Roman & B. Michelletto-Zucca (Eds.), Women, migration and the exchange of knowledge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Migration). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Ezzeddine, P. (2023). ‘Care Bonds’ in Times of COVID-19. In B. Aulenbacher, H. Lutz, E. Pallenga Mollenbeck, & A. Schwitter (Eds.), Home care for sale (pp. 45–62). London: Sage.

• Ezzeddine, P., & Havelková, H. (2021). The gender of guilt: Diversity and ambivalence of transnational care trajectories within postsocialist migration experience. In F. Pine & H. Haukanes (Eds.), Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders (Gender, reproduction, regulation) (pp. 70-85). Manchester: Manchester University Press.