CIRCLE - Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities

CIRCLE welcomes Raquel Martinez-Bujan

11 May 2011

Raquel Martinez-Bujan, a Visiting Research Fellow from the University of A Coruna, Spain, is visiting CIRCLE for three months from 6 May 2011.

Raquel is a Senior Lecturer and is developing her research interests in the ESOMI - Research Team on Sociology of Migrations, coordinated by Professor Antonio Izquierdo.

Her PhD research, published by the CSIC, is entitled "Welfare and Care: a business of love" and is a qualitative analysis on immigrant women within domestic service that care for elderly people in Spain.

Her work focuses on care-providing strategies for the elderly in the Autonomous Regions of Spain and studies the relationship between local care policies and national care policies, analysing how national welfare states are structured in different welfare states.

Her main research question: Is it possible to distinguish different types of local care policy regimes within welfare states?