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.
Selected Publications
Fröhlich, V.; Gábriel, D., Pimminger, F. (2025). Caring Communities and Urban Cultures of Care for Older People in Austria, Hungary, and The Netherlands. Urban Planning, 10, Article 10038. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.10038
Koós, B.; Tátrai, P.; Gábriel, D. (2025). Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of International Retirement Migrants Settling in Hungary. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00455-x
Gábriel, D.; Katona, N. (2024). Diversification of the Senior Home Care Market in Hungary: Informality and the Operational Modes of Intermediaries. In B., Aulenbacher; H., Lutz; E., Palenga-Möllenbeck; K., Schwiter (Eds.) Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe. London, UK: SAGE Publications. pp. 64–78.
Gábriel, D. (2023). The Interconnectedness of Biographies, Migration and Gender Norms. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, 9(1), 62–78.
Gábriel, D. (2022). A boldogulás útvesztői: Idősgondozás külföldön, vidéki nők élettörténetében [In the Maze of Making Ends Meet: Migrant Care Work in the Life Course of Rural Women]. Budapest, Balassi Kiadó.
