Sabrina Marchetti is Associate Professor in Sociology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is mainly specialised on issues of gender, racism, labour and migration, with a specific focus on the question of migrant domestic and care work.

In the past, she has worked at the European University Institute as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Jean Monnet Fellow. She has been post-doctoral fellow at the Gender Excellence Programme of Linkoeping University in Sweden. She holds a Phd from the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University.

She has been the Principal Investigator of a Starting Grant project funded by the European Research Council entitled DomEQUAL: Paid domestic work and global inequalities (2016-21) about the labour rights of paid domestic and care workers in India, Philippines, Taiwan, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Spain. She is currently the coordinator of the Italian team for the H2020 research project VULNER: Vulnerabilities under the global protection regime (2020-23) coordinated by the Max Planck Institute in Halle.

Her previous books in English are Black Girls. Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies (Brill, 2014) and Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care (Ashgate 2015, with Anna Triandafyllidou), Global domestic workers: intersectional inequalities and struggles for rights (Bristol UP 2021, with Giulia Garofalo Geymonat and Daniela Cherubini).

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