Petra Ezzeddine is a social anthropologist and an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on gender in migration, transnational care practices, globalization of senior care, ageing in migration and appplied anthropology.

She is a member of the editorial board for Gender a Výzkum/ Gender and Research. Petra Ezzeddine is starting to work with her team on international research (including UvA team) project CareOg:  „Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe”(founded by Volskwagen Stiftung). CareOrg will investigate the intersections between Igntra-EU mobility, care drain and care gain within and from CEE countries, foregrounding the meso level of organizing senior care work to offer lessons on how to develop sustainable and decent care work in and across Europe.

Selected Publications

• Ezzeddine, P. 2023. Care Bonds in Pandemic Times, In eds. Aulenbacher, Lutz, Pallenga-Mollenback and  Schwitter: Home Care for Sale, London: Sage (in a print).
• Ezzeddine, P. and Krause K. 2022. Profitable Bodies in Central and Eastern Europe, Global Dialogue 2 (3),https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/profitable-bodies-and-care-mobilities-in-central-and-easterneurope.
• Ezzeddine P., Havelková H. 2021.The Gender of Gift: Diversity and Ambivalence of Transnational Care Trajectories within Postsocialist Migration Experience, In Pine F., Haukanes H. Intimacy and Mobility in an Era of Hardering Borders (Gender, Reproduction, Regulation),Manchester: Manchester University Press,  https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526150219/ .
• Aulenbacher B., Ezzeddine P., Gábriel D., Leiblfinger M., Milankovics K., Prieler V.,2020: Facing COVID-19: Live-in Care in Central Europe, in Brigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Dörre, Johanna Grubner, Christine Schickert, in Global Dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological Association,10 (3): 23-24. https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/facing-covid-19-live-in-care-in-central-europe
• Uhde Z., Ezzeddine P. 2020. The Political Economy of Social Reproduction: Cross-Border Care mobility in the Czech Republic, In Melegh A., Katona N.(Eds.): Towards a Scarcity of Care? Tensions and Contradictions in Transnational Elderly Care Systems in Central and Eastern Europe, pp.26-44, FES: Budapest, https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/budapest/16945.pdf .