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Anna Maria Simola
Chargée de recherche FNRS
Anna Simola holds a PhD in sociology. She is an FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE) at IACS, at the UCLouvain. She is also an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care (RG3 Migration, Care and Ageing) at the University of Helsinki.
Her research develops critical orientations and novel approaches to the study of free mobility in Europe. Her broad areas of interest cover the intersections of migration, personal and family life, work and social policy, and the related issues of freedom, vulnerability, precarity, aging, dependency, and inequality. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Sociology, Journal of European Social Policy, Work, Employment and Society and Global Networks.
Anna’s current postdoctoral research project (2022-2025), funded by Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), examines the lives of European transnational families in a context where people and societies are facing growing uncertainties related to major transnational crises such as pandemics, the climate crisis and wars escalating in and around Europe. The project aims to develop a novel conceptual and empirical tools for the study of mobility and transnational family life by bringing together cutting-edge theories in the sociology of personal life and research on human mobility and transnational families. The promotor of this project is professor Laura Merla.
Anna received her PhD from the University of Helsinki in 2021. Her dissertation, entitled Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? Young EU Migrants, Neoliberal Governance and Inequality within the Free Movement Regime" , explored young European Union (EU) citizens experiences of free mobility in precarious labour conditions. Between November 2018 and October 2020, she worked on her doctoral research as a visiting researcher at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). From October 2022 to September 2023, she prepared her postdoctoral project as a visiting researcher at CIRFASE at the UCLouvain with a funding from the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Fund. Since 2018, she has also been involved in the research work and various publications of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Aging and Care (RG 3: MICA - Migration, Care and Ageing), as well as the project ‘Citizenisation in the Local Welfare State’ funded by the Reseach Council of Finland.
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Année Label Institution 2008 Master en sciences sociales 2021 Doctor of social sciences University of Helsinki 2021 Doctor of social sciences Université de Helsinki
- LTRAV2720 - Comparative social protection systems
- Les cours
Nom ID Comparative social protection systems LTRAV2720
European transnational families in times of crises
This postdoctoral research project (2022-2025), funded by Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), aims at developing a novel theorethical-empirical orientation for the study of mobility and transnational family life that brings together cutting-edge theoretisation in sociology of personal life and research on human mobility and transnational families. Set in the context where people are confronted with growing uncertainties related to major transnational crises such as the recent pandemic, the climate crisis and wars escalating in Europe and its vicinity, the study investigates EU migrants’ multidimensional connections with the people and places that matter to them. The promotor of this project is professor Laura Merla.
Simola, Anna Maria ; May, Vanessa ; Olakivi, Antero ; Wrede, Sirpa. On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Global Networks, Vol. 23, no.1, p. 45-58 (2023). doi:10.1111/glob.12382.
Vasara Paula ; Simola, Anna Maria ; Olakivi, Antero. The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 64, no. 2023, p. 1-9 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101106.
Simola, Anna Maria. Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? lectio praecursoria. In: Nuorisotutkimus, Vol. 40, no.1, p. 61-67 (2022). doi:10.57049/nuorisotutkimus.9115808.
Simola, Anna Maria. Quest for Passion: Understanding Precarious Migration of Young Highly Qualified EU Citizens as Lived Neoliberal Subjectivity. In: Sociology, Vol. 56, no.4, p. 621-637 (2022). doi:10.1177/00380385211051224.
Simola, Anna Maria ; Wrede, Sirpa. Young EU migrant citizens’ access to financial independence in conditions of precarious work: A tripartite approach to welfare conditionality. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 31, no.4, p. 395-408 (2021). doi:10.1177/0958928720950625.
Simola, Anna Maria. Lost in Administration: (Re)Producing Precarious Citizenship for Young University-Educated Intra-EU Migrants in Brussels. In: Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 32, no.3, p. 458-474 (2018). doi:10.1177/0950017018755653.
Nathan Lillie ; Simola, Anna Maria. The Crisis of Free Movement in the European Union. In: Mondi Migranti, Vol. 2016, no.3, p. 7-19 (2016).
Simola, Anna Maria. Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? Young EU Migrants, Neoliberal Governance and Inequality within the Free Movement Regime, Dissertations, University of Helsinki: Helsinki, 2021. 978-951-51-7323-2. 93 p.
Simola, Anna Maria. Short-sighted Policies Drive EU Migrants into Precarious Jobs. In: Ilke Adam, Serena D'Agostino, Nick Schuermans, Florian Tauner (eds.), Migration, Equality and Racism: 44 Opinions, VUB Press: Brussels, 2021, p. 78-82. 9789461171061 (Soumis).
Simola, Anna Maria. EU citizenship as precarious status for precarious workers: Implications of national policies restricting EU citizens’ rights for young university-educated EU migrants in Brussels. In: Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud, Elspeth Guild (eds.), EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights Taking Supranational Citizenship Seriously, Brill: Nijhoff, 2020, p. 190–214. 9789004411784.