Notes on Contributors
Gabriela Alkmin
is a PhD candidate in Law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. She holds an ll.m. in Philosophy of Law and a Bachelor of Laws, both from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. She is a co-coordinator of Diverso ufmg – Legal Center of Sexual and Gender Diversity. Her research interests include: Gender Contentious Politics; Sexual and Reproductive Rights; Juridification and Democracy; Strategic Litigation and Supreme Courts.
Mariana Eugenio Almeida
is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Demography, Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar), Federal University of Minas Gerais (ufmg), Brazil. She is also a Social Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Brazil. Her main research interests include labor market, gender and race inequalities, care work and social policy.
Ana Carolina Andrada
holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo in 2022. She is an associated researcher at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and the Care, Rights and Inequalities Network (Rede CuiDDe – Cuidados, Direitos e Desigualdades). Among her research interests are the different types of matching processes, including those taking place in the labor market.
Eileen Boris
is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Advisory Board, ucsb Community Labor Project. President/President elect, Labor and Working Class History Association (lawcha), member of Health and Safety Committee of Hand-in-Hand, part of the California Domestic Worker Coalition, contributing editorial board member of Women‘s History Review, Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and International Review of Social History.
Ana Claudia Moreira Cardoso
holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and University of Paris 8 and post-doctorate from the Center de Recherche Sociologique et Politique de Paris – cresppa. She is a consultant at the National School of Public Health / Fiocruz and the Ministry of Women.
obtained a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies on Development from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, Enterprises and Sustainable Development (feeds) at University of La Salle (Colombia). Associate researcher registered at the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in topics related to women, labor and empowerment.
Daniella Castro-Barbudo
is a sociologist from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (puj), Bogotá, Colombia. Master’s program in Demography and Population Studies at the Universidad de La República (UdeLaR), Montevideo, Uruguay. Professor and researcher focused on health, women and quality of life studies, socio-demographic data analysis, social inequalities and feminist/ differential perspectives.
Aurélie Damamme
is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and a member of the cresppa-gtm laboratory. Her research focuses on domestic care work, the articulation between care theories and critical disability studies, and housing and disability issues from an intersectional perspective.
Guita Grin Debert
is a Full PhD Professor, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (unicamp) (State University of Campinas). Researcher at the Pagu Center for Gender Studies at unicamp, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (fapesp) (São Paulo Research Foundation). Research interests: aging, gender, care.
Jorge Felix
is Professor, Economy and Finance in Gerontology, School of Arts, Science and Humanities (each), Universidade de São Paulo (usp) (University of São Paulo). Researcher at the Pagu Center for Gender Studies at unicamp with sholarship by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (fapesp) (São Paulo Research Foundation). Research interests: aging population, public policies, silver economy, care economy.
is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, USA. PhD, 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her recent publications include: Global Labor Migration: New Directions (University of Illinois Press, 2023) (with Eileen Boris, Julie Greene and Joo-Cheong Tham); Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration and Care, a special issue of Critical Sociology (with Jennifer Jihye Chun); Gender, Work and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy (Polity Press, 2013) and The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism (Brill, 2015).
Nadya Araujo Guimarães
is Senior Professor at the University of São Paulo Department of Sociology, Researcher at cebrap (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning), and a regular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She received her Master’s degree at the University of Brasilia (1974), her PhD at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983) and did post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies for Developing Areas (1993–1994). She has been researching the Brazilian labor market focusing on economic change, unemployment and workers trajectories; labor market intermediaries; gender/race inequalities; care and care workers.
Amparo Hernández-Bello
holds a PhD in public health. Professor at the Institute of Public Health of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Activist for the right to health. Co-coordinator of the Care and Gender Working Group of Clacso. Member of the External Advisory Council of the National Care System. Research and teaching career on topics such as equity and social justice in health, social determinants of health and health, gender and care.
Helena Hirata
is Research Director Emerita at cnrs (National Center for Scientific Research), France and Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is also a member of the editorial board of Cahiers du Genre, member of the Direction of the international and interdisciplinary network mage (Gender and Labour Market), and a member of the French team of the project Who cares? Rebuilding care in a post-pandemic world, from the Trans-Atlantic Platform.
is Full Professor of Sociology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and Researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique and the Centre d’études de l’emploi et du travail. She has worked extensively on labor market intermediaries, both in Brazil and France, from a historical and sociological perspective that combines economic sociology and the sociology of work.
Pascale Molinier
is Professor of Social Psychology at Sorbonne Paris Nord University. Her research focuses on the relationship between work and the ethics of care, feminist epistemology, gender and sexuality. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including: Le travail du care, 2022 La Dispute, Le care monde, 2018, ens Lyon, Les enjeux psychiques du travail, 2006, Payot.
Carolina Moreno
is a Lawyer and holds a PhD in Law from Los Andes University and Magister in Public Law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Currently, she is an Associate Professor and Head of Research at Los Andes University Law Faculty (Bogotá, Colombia). She is the Director of the Centre for Migration Studies and co-founder of the Legal Clinic for Migrants.
Renata Moreno
obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo in 2019. Associated researcher to the Care, Rights and Inequalities Network (Rede CuiDDe – Cuidados, Direitos e Desigualdades). Among her research interests are care, digital economy and feminist economics.
Pedro Augusto Gravatá Nicoli
holds a PhD in Law from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (ufmg). Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (ufmg). Visiting professor at the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies department at Duke University, in the United States (2019–2020). Co-coordinator of Diverso ufmg – Legal Center of Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Maria Júlia Tavares Pereira
holds a Master in Social Sciences from Federal University of Juiz de Fora (ufjf) and is a Sociology PhD student at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). She develops research in the field of platformization of labor from a gendered standpoint, focusing on the experiences of women in platform
Javier A. Pineda D.
obtained his PhD from Durham University, UK. He is a full-time Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center of Development Studies –cider, Universidad de los Andes. He currently is the Colombian ip for the project Who cares? Rebuilding care in a post-pandemic world, from the Trans-Atlantic Platform. Recent publications include: La sociedad del cuidado y políticas de la vida (Clacso, 2024) (with Karina Batthyány and Valentina Perrotta).
Luana Simões Pinheiro
holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She has been working as a planning and research specialist at the Institute for Applied Economic Research since 2004, where she conducted research on gender, race and inequality. She worked at the National Secretariat for Women’s Policies, at the Presidency of Brazil between 2007 and 2011, and is currently heading the Department for Care Economy, at the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger.
Jeanny Posso
holds a PhD in social anthropology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and is a Full-time professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Universidad del Valle. Researcher at the Social and Economics Sciences Research and Documentation Center, cidse. She currently is Coordinator of the Comprehensive Care Area for Violence and Discrimination based on Gender at de Universidad del Valle.
Marcelo Maciel Ramos
obtained a PhD in Law from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (ufmg). Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (ufmg). Visiting professor at the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies department at Duke University, in the United States (2019–2020). Co-coordinator of Diverso ufmg – Legal Center of Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Michelle Redondo
is a post-doctoral student at the Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris – Cresppa; member of the French team of the international project “Rebuilding Care in a post-pandemic world”. PhD in Political Science from the Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France and in Social Sciences from the
Maria Camila Vega-Salazar
is a Lawyer from Universidad Externado de Colombia and graduate student in Gender and Interdisciplinary Development Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies – cider, Universidad de los Andes.
Simone Wajnman
is a Professor and researcher at cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais (ufmg). PhD in Demography from cedeplar/ufmg and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her main research interests include family demography, economic demography, formal analysis of demographic dynamics and, more recently, care demography.