Maria Consuelo Flores Rojas

Sociology

Racism-critical perspective, queer, post- and decolonial theories and subjectivation

  • Since December 2020 Research Associate at the Chair of Migration and Society.
  • 2017-2020 Scholarship holder of the doctoral program "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen".
  • 2013-2016 Master's degree in International Migration and Intercultural Relations at Osnabrück University.
  • 2006-2012 Bachelor's degree in Sciences and Arts of Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Maria Consuelo Flores Rojas, M.A.

Foto, Flores Rojas

Osnabrück University
IMIS
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück

Office: 03/122

 +49 541 969-6040

 maria.consuelo.flores.rojas@uni-osnabrueck.de

Dissertation project:

Expectations in Confrontation

In Germany, towards the end of 2015, several governmentally funded projects started focusing on recruiting people with refugee status into the elderly care sector. A sector which for a long time has been in a crisis due to a lack of employees.

This PhD research project focuses on the expectations of Refugee workers in this sector, using the following research question: How do caregivers of the elderly with refugee status perceive, build and confront expectations about their work? Understanding their expectations regarding themselves and their work, helps understand the labor market, as one that is regulated not only by economic interests, but as a space that is socially regulated by perceptions and social imaginaries; what Maruani (2000) calls employment: Who has access or not to work in this labor market? Who is expected to fill the free positions within it? Who has been offered the job and who has not?

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken