Anne-Iris Romens
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
Master of Political Sciences (Institut d’Etudes Politiques – Sciences Po Strasbourg, France)
European Master of Human Rights and Democratization (European Inter-University Institute Venice, Italy)
PhD in Social Sciences (University of Padua, Italy)
Current Research Projects
2026-2029: European MSCA fellow with the project ‘MIGRants’ strAtegies in carinG for and receiving care from their Elderly parents: Designing paths at the intersection of border, care and labour regimes (MIGR-AGE)’ funded by the European Union and implemented with the University of Padua in Italy, Carleton University and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Book
Romens A.I. (2022), Deconstructing Essentialism. Migrant Women in Stratified Labour Markets. Palgrave Macmillan.
Other Selected Publications
Romens A.I. (2025), “Border regimes shaping social reproduction: the childcare practices of migrant working mothers”. In Alberti G., Riedner L., Lonergan G. (eds.) Migration and Social Reproduction: Critical junctions between labour, border and reproductive struggles, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 172-190.
Russo, C., Pacetti, V., Romens, A.I., & Dordoni, A. (2025). The impact of telework on older adults’ work-life balance in post-pandemic times. Evidence from teleworkers over 55 in Milan. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 38(8), 204-219, doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-03-2025-0209
Recchi S, Romens A.I., Scalise G (2025), “Post-pandemic remote work and the Italian care model: constraint or opportunity?”. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 45 No. 13-14, 19–33, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-10-2024-0497
Romens A.I., Vincent S., Santos Menezes P. (2024), “Telework as a childcare policy: Mitigating or increasing gender and class inequalities in France and Italy?”, Community, Work & Family, 28(5), 625-640, doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2024.2332220
Romens A.I., Vianello F.A. (2024), “Essentialism and intersectionality in the selection and recruitment of staff: the devaluation of migrant women’s skills in France and Italy”, Identities, 31 (5), pp. 684-703, doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2023.2275906
Romens A.I. (2021), “Disentangling interlocking regimes in the biographies of migrant mothers with tertiary education”, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 8 (4), pp. 402-426, doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2021.1987949
Romens A.I. (2021), “‘Don’t let people walk all over you’: Migrant women with tertiary education coping with essentialism in Italy and France”, About Gender, 10 (20), 231-263, doi.org/10.15167/2279-5057/AG2021.10.20.1317