Sabrina Marchetti

Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Spring 2025

Research focus while a CERC Scholar 

During her time at CERC Migration, Sabrina will be working primarily on the framework for the project “I-CLAIM”, which addresses the living and labour conditions of irregularized migrant households in Europe. In particular, she will work on the analysis of ethnographic material about irregularized migrant women employed in the care and domestic sector in Naples, Italy, with a specific focus on the post-2022 Ukrainian diaspora. She will also work on a handbook on intersectionality for an Italian audience, with Daniela Cherubini.

Career achievements

Sabrina is Associate Professor in Sociology at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She has worked at the European University Institute as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Jean Monnet Fellow and has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Gender Excellence Programme of Linköping University in Sweden. Research projects she has lead include: the Starting-Grant project funded by the European Research Council entitled “DomEQUAL: Paid domestic work and global inequalities” (2016-21), which examines the labour rights of paid domestic and care workers in India, Philippines, Taiwan, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Spain; and the H2020 research project “VULNER: Vulnerabilities under the global protection regime” (2020-23), coordinated by the Luc Leboeuf (Max Planck Institute). Currently, Sabrina is leading the Italian team for the Horizon Europe project “I-CLAIM: Improving the living and working conditions of irregularized migrant households in Europe” (2023-2026) coordinated by Ilse Van Liempt (Utrecht University) and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham). 

Relevant publications

With Garofalo Geymonat, G. & Palumbo, L. (2023). Migrant women workers in Europe: forms of irregularity and conditions of vulnerability, In van Liempt, I., Schapendonk, J. & Campos-Delgado, A. (Eds), Research Handbook on Irregular Migration (pp. 215-226), Edward Elgar Publishing.

With Mesiäislehto, M. (2023) Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response. In Duffy, M., Armenia, A. & Price-Glynn, K. (Eds). From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID-19, and Pathways to Change (pp. 134-142), Rutgers University Press.

(2022) Migration and domestic work, Springer.

With Garofalo Geymonat, G. & Di Bartolomeo, A. (2022) Dilemmas around temporariness and transnational recruitment agencies: the case of migrant caregivers in Taiwan and Germany, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48: 3894-3909.

With Di Bartolomeo, A. (2021) Homes as workplaces at the intersection of migration, care and gender regimes. In Lenner, K., Carmel, E. & Paul, R. (Eds), Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (pp. 304-314), Edward Elgar Publishing.

With Garofalo Geymonat, G. & Cherubini, D. (2021) Global domestic workers: intersectional inequalities and struggles for rights, Bristol, Bristol University Press.

With Garofalo Geymonat, G. & Cherubini, D. (2021) The feminist and domestic workers’ movements: disconnected practices, discursive convergences, European Journal of Politics and Gender, 20: 1-15.

With Barañano Cid, M. (Eds., 2016) Género, migraciones y transformaciones de la reproducción social y de los cuidados en la Europa del Sur, special issue of Investigaciones Feministas, Universidad Complutense.

With Triandafyllidou A. (Eds, 2015) Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care, Ashgate.

(2014) Black Girls. Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies, Brill.