Neda Deneva holds a PhD in sociology and social anthropology from the
Central European University in Budapest. Her dissertation is an
ethnography of Bulgarian Muslims’ migration to Spain. It explores how
migrants reconfigure citizenship by everyday acts, claims and struggles
within EU regimes of mobility, labour and welfare. Her main research
interests include transnational migration, labour transformations and
new work regimes, citizenship and relations with the state, care work,
and minority-state relations. In her postdoctoral research project, Neda
has worked on Roma labour and acre migration within the EU and the
implications of the changing meanings and realities of work on access to
citizenship rights, and changing generational and care relations. She
has also conducted research into policy-oriented issues related to third
country nationals’ and refugees’ access to integrational measures, the
labour market, and health care in Bulgaria. Her most recent research
focuses on the transformations of medical practices in the field of
maternal and child health in Eastern Europe, more particularly on the
role of midwives and women in the process of acquiring autonomy and
responsibilization.
Neda is teaching courses in Political
Sociology and Political Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, and
in Maternal and Child Health and in Global Health at the Cluj School
for Public Health at Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. She has
held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Liberal Strategies,
Sofia, and at the International Research Center Work and Human Lifecylce
in Global History, re: work at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Publications:
2017,
‘Flexible Kin-Work, Flexible Migration. Aging Migrants Caught between
Productive and Reproductive Labour in the European Union’. In Transnational Aging and Kin-Work, edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
2014, ‘Conflicting Meanings and Practices of Work. Bulgarian Roma as Citizens and Migrants’. In Situating Migration in Transition. Temporal, Structural, and Conceptual Transformations of Migrations. Sketches from Bulgaria, by Raia Apostolova, Neda Deneva, and Tsvetelina Hristova, 42–70. Sofia: Collective for Social Interventions, 2014.
2012,
‘Transnational Aging Carers. On Transformation of Kinship and
Citizenship in the Context of Migration among Bulgarian Muslims in
Spain’. Social Politics 19, no. 1:105–28.