Postdoc Project since 2022:
This project looks at issues around work, transnational mobilities and future transformations in healthcare from a critical sustainability perspective. Starting from the health sector in Switzerland, which is marked by the global trend of the commodification of healthcare and is very dependent on labour from abroad, the project follows transnational mobilities of people, knowledges and practices, especially to Eastern Europe. The recruitment of health workers, for example from Romania, allow to shift the costs of medical education and training and the transfer of knowledge to other countries. At the same time, mobility allows individuals to follow their personal aspirations and imaginaries of work, and the exchange and circulation of knowledge can bring about innovation and transformation. Focusing on the intersection of education, work and mobilities, this project engages with questions of justice and explores how a spatially informed, critical perspective can inform current debates about the future of work and of (im)mobilities in healthcare and develop capacities for transformation, emancipation and justice in the search for more ‘sustainable work’.
The project is part of "Healthcare unbound: A transnational perspective on the future of the world of work in health care"