Anna Simola holds a PhD in sociology. She is an FNRS postdoctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE) at the UCLouvain (Belgium). She is also an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care (RG 3 Migration, Care and Ageing) at the University of Helsinki. In her work she develops critical approaches to research on EU migration with a particular interest on questions of autonomy and dependency. Her research covers a range of topics including employment precarity and lived subjectivity under neoliberal governance, interplay of welfare and border regimes from a transnational perspective; aging and vulnerability; as well as personal and familial affinities (Mason, 2018). Her current research investigates the role of affiinities in shaping mobilility and transnational family life of freely moving EU citizens.
Anna obtained her PhD at the University of Helsinki in 2021. Her PhD reseach titled "Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? Young EU Migrants, Neoliberal Governance and Inequality within the Free Movement Regime" investigated young European Union (EU) citizens’ experiences of free mobility in precarious labour conditions.
Until the late 2010 she worked at the University of Tampere as a project researcher on issues related to migration, labour migration and economic press at the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2679 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0948-4315 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Simola |
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain)
University, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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University of Helsinki
University, Helsinki, Finland
Research
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Authors | Paula Vasara, Anna Simola, Antero Olakivi |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Aging Studies |
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic
| Authors | Anna Simola, Vanessa May, Antero Olakivi, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
A Quest for Passion: Understanding Precarious Migration of Young Highly Qualified EU Citizens as Lived Neoliberal Subjectivity
| Authors | Anna Simola |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Young EU migrant citizens’ access to financial independence in conditions of precarious work: A tripartite approach to welfare conditionality
| Authors | Anna Simola, Sirpa Wrede |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of European Social Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
EU Citizenship as Precarious Status for Precarious Workers: Implications of National Policies Restricting EU Citizens’ Rights for Young University-Educated EU Migrants in Brussels
| Authors | Anna Simola |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Lost in Administration: (Re)Producing Precarious Citizenship for Young University-Educated Intra-EU Migrants in Brussels
| Authors | Anna Simola |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Work, Employment and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Crisis of Free Movement in the European Union
| Authors | Nathan Lillie, Anna Simola |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | MONDI MIGRANTI | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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