Research Interests

Dóra Gábriel holds a PhD degree in sociology at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology, where she studies the process of marketization and professionalization of care within the project Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung. She is the principal investigator of the Hungarian team. Her fields of interest are transnational care, marketization of care, international retirement migration, and the community shift in care. She is a member of the EuroCare research network and the Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies. She organizes scientific webinars and roundtables at the Department of Qualitative Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association. She is in the Ethics Advisory Board of the ReloCare project. Her publication activity includes over 20 book chapters and journal articles published in English and Hungarian. Her first book [Migrant care work in the life course of rural women] was published in 2022.