Majella Kilkey is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she co-founded and currently co-directs the Migration Research Group in the Faculty of Social Sciences, and convenes the MSc International Social Change and Policy programme. Her main research areas are migration, transnational families and care, migration and gender, including masculinities, ageing and migration and family and migration policies. Her geographical focus is predominantly European societies. She has published a number of books on those topics, including: Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA (with Diane Perrons, Ania Plomien, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Hernan Ramirez, Palgrave 2013); Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course (edited with Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Palgrave 2016). And, she currently holds a number of externally funded research grants in these areas. Majella is highly engaged in the UK Social Policy academic community, and is currently co-editor of Social Policy & Society (Cambridge University Press), an Executive Member of the UK Social Policy Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Policy (Cambridge University Press). Internationally, Majella is a member of the European Sociological Association and International Sociological Association, and she represents the University of Sheffield on the IMISCOE Board of Directors.
Migration-related publications
Kilkey, M. & Ryan, L. (2020) ‘Unsettling Events: Understanding Migrants’ Responses to Geopolitical Transformative Episodes through a Life-Course Lens’, International Migration Review https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918320905507
Merla, L., Kilkey, M. & Baldassar, L. (2020) ‘Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care’, Journal of Family Research https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-351
Kushnir, I., Kilkey, M. & Strumia, F. (2020) ‘EU integration in the (post)-migrant-crisis context: learning new integration modes?’, European Review https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798719000425
Kilkey, M., Merla, L. & Baldassar, L. (2018) ‘Editorial’, Special Issue – The Social Reproductive Worlds of Migrants, Journal of Family Studies, 24:1, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2018.1422319
Kilkey, M. (2018) ‘Transnational Families: Opportunities and Constraints for Caring Across Borders’, in Kapella, O., Schneider, N. & Roast, H. (eds) Familie – Bildung – Migration, Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Baldassar, L., Kilkey, M., Merla, L. & Wilding, R. (2018) ‘Transnational Families in the Era of Global Mobility’, in Triandafyllidou, A. (ed) Handbook on Migration and Globalisation, Edward Elgar.
Kim, G. & Kilkey, M. (2017) ‘Marriage Migration Policy in South Korea: Social Investment beyond the Nation State’, International Migration, 56:1, 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12350
Kilkey, M. (2017) ‘Conditioning Family-life at the Intersection of Migration and Welfare: The Implications for “Brexit Families’’’, Journal of Social Policy, 46: 4, 797 – 814. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727941700037X
Kilkey, M. & Urzi, D. (2017) ‘Social Reproduction in Sicily’s Agricultural Sector: Migration Status and Context of Reception’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43: 15, 2573-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1286971
Kilkey, M. & Palenga-Möllenbeck, E. (eds) (2016) Family Life in An Age of Migration and Mobility. Global Perspectives through the Life Course, Palgrave Macmillan.
Kilkey, M. & Merla, L. (2014) ‘Situating Transnational Families’ Care-giving Arrangements: the role of institutional contexts’, Global Networks. A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 14: 2, 210-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12034
Kilkey, M., Plomien, A. & Perrons, D. (2014) ‘Migrant men’s fathering practices and projects in national and transnational spaces: recent Polish male migrants to London’, International Migration, 52: 1, 178-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12046
Kilkey, M., Perrons, D. & Plomien, A. with Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. & Ramirez, H. (2013) Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA, Palgrave Macmillan.
Kilkey, M. & Palenga-Möllenbeck, E. (2013) ‘Fathers’ time-bind and the outsourcing of ‘male’ domestic work in Europe: the cases of UK and Germany’, Comparative and International Social Policy, 29: 2, 109-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2013.832702
Kilkey, M. (2010) ‘Men and Domestic Labour: A Missing Link in the Global Care Chain’, Men and Masculinities, 13: 1, 126-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X10382884
Kilkey, M., Lutz, H. & Palenga-Möllenbeck, E. (2010) ‘Introduction’ in Themed Section ‘Domestic and care work at the intersection of welfare, gender and migration regimes: European experiences’ (Guest Editors Kilkey, M., Lutz, H. & Palenga-Möllenbeck, E.), Social Policy and Society, 9: 3, 379-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746410000096
Kilkey, M. & Perrons, D. (2010) ‘Gendered divisions in domestic-work time. The rise of the (migrant) handyman phenomenon’, Time and Society, 19: 2, 239-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X09354439
Perrons, D., Plomien, A. & Kilkey, M. (2010) ‘Migration and uneven development within an enlarged European Union: Fathering, gender divisions and male migrant domestic services’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 17: 2, 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776409357362
Current migration-related projects
Sustainable Care: Connecting People and Systems (Co-I, Economic and Social Research Council-funded, 2017-2021)
Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre (MIGREC) (Co-I, EU H2020-funded, 2019-2022)
Empowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in Vulnerable Conditions (MIMY) (Co-I, EU H2020-funded, 2020-2023)