ESR11: Svenja Fischbach
I obtained my master鈥檚 degree in Social Work at the Protestant University for Social Work and Deaconry Hamburg (Germany) in 2014 and my bachelor鈥檚 degree in Social Work at the University of Applied Science Esslingen (Germany) in 2011. During my academic studies, I spent six months in Plymouth (UK) and another six months in Ja茅n (Spain).
My academic fields are poverty research, social policy, social justice, subject-oriented research approaches with service user involvement, and participatory social work practices. I worked as a social worker in several fields and most recently as a subject specialist for an umbrella organisation in the field of youth work and youth services.
My PhD research project entitled "The Social Consequences of Care Migration to Western Europe for Local Communities and its Women in Serbia" stands at the intersection of gender studies, migration research and care work studies. In particular, it examines how the phenomenon of care migration affects the living and working situation of non-migrating women in Serbia. For this purpose, ethnographic field research with interviews is conducted. The research is a transnational social analysis of inequality that focuses on the everyday life of female 'stayers' by applying an intersectional lens to transnational care migration.
Contact: svenja.fischbach@gmx.de
