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Long‐term care in EU policy 1999‐2022: women's responsibility, migrants' work?; Elena Zacharenko; Journal of common market studies; 2024-01, Volume 62 (1); pp. 38-54

As the population of the European Union (EU) is ageing and its working-age population shrinking, concerns are rising about how the growing demand for long-term care (LTC) will be met. Since unpaid care, provided mainly by women, is increasingly scarce, some EU states are becoming dependent on migrant labour for the functioning of their elder care systems. (...)

The role of the European Union's securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers; Sarkin, Jeremy Julian ; Morais, Tatiana; The international journal of human rights, 2025-02, Vol.29 (2), p.282-305

This article compares the European Union's (EU) reception and resettlement of European and non-European refugees and asylum seekers from an intersectional viewpoint. It does so using data collected during fieldwork in Greece focusing on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). The goal is to examine, through an empirical and theoretical study, the gendered, racialised, national and religious nature of the EU's approach to its external policies, border security approaches and its constitutive nature based on contingent, relational and non-additive vulnerabilities and inequalities that have been inherited from the EU's colonial past (...).

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