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ROMENS ANNE-IRIS

Role
Research fellow  
Academic disciplines
Economic Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organizations (SPS/09)

Biography

Anne-Iris Romens (PhD) is a research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan – Bicocca. She holds a PhD in social sciences, a master's degree in political science and a master's degree in human rights. Before doing research in academia, Anne-Iris Romens worked for nearly 4 years with institutions and non-governmental organisations in France, Italy, Colombia, and Brazil. Her research interests regard migration, care and social reproduction, labour process, industrial relations, and remote work, which she analyses from an intersectional and decolonial perspective.

Research

Principal Investigator of the project Bicocca Starting Grant “SO-REMOTE: The SOcial impact of distant REMotisation on workers and lOcal comuniTiEs” (2024)

Publications

  • Recchi, S., Fullin, G., Pacetti, V., Romens, A. (2025). Models of hybrid work: implementing remote work in post-pandemic times. STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI(2025/2), 90-119 [10.3280/SO2025-002004]. Detail

  • Recchi, S., Romens, A., Scalise, G. (2025). Post-pandemic remote work and the Italian care model: constraint or opportunity?. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY, 45(13-14), 19-33 [10.1108/IJSSP-10-2024-0497]. Detail

  • Romens, A. (2025). Border regimes shaping social reproduction: the childcare practices of migrant working mothers. In G. Alberti, L. Riedner, G. Lonergan (a cura di), Migration and Social Reproduction: Critical junctions between labour, border and reproductive struggle (pp. 172-188). Edward Elgar Publishing [10.4337/9781035356904.00016]. Detail

  • Romens, A., Vincent, S., Santos Menezes, P. (2024). Telework as a childcare policy: mitigating or increasing gender and class inequalities?. COMMUNITY, WORK & FAMILY, 1-16 [10.1080/13668803.2024.2332220]. Detail

  • Romens, A. (2024). The hybridisation of employees’ status through remote overwork: the unions’ perspective. RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI SOCIOLOGIA, 65(1), 101-126 [10.1423/108612]. Detail