Dr A.G.M. Böcker (Anita)

Dr. Anita Böcker is associate professor of Sociology of Law and affiliated to the Centre for Migration Law of the Law Faculty of Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). She studied social geography and cultural anthropology at Groningen University. She received her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in 1994. Her PhD thesis dealt with the impact of the Dutch state system of social security on informal social security arrangements within Turkish migrant families and networks (Turkse migranten en sociale zekerheid: van onderlinge zorg naar overheidszorg? Amsterdam University Press 1994). She has been involved in various international and interdisciplinary research projects. Her most recent research projects dealt with migration and return migration of elderly people to Turkey; the emergence and significance of transnational long-term care arrangements ; and the impact of the corona pandemic on labour migrants working in crucial sectors. She is currently conducting research on recruitment of skilled workers from outside the EU as one of the possible solutions to abour shortages in the healthcare and technical sectors.