Ana Maria D Preoteasa

Institutul de Cercetare a Calităţii Vieţii · Employment

T The present study, based on qualitative data, investigates the significant career change through the life-course lens. Biographical interviews were conducted with people who changed their profession and the findings were characteristically reflective and subjective, foregrounding the participants’ interpretations of their layers of reality. Diffe...

The global sex industry has undergone a tremendous transformation, and many different forms of commercial sex have emerged with the growth of digital media. The advent of ‘platform work’ in diverse fields, including sex work, has affected digital workers’ experiences dramatically. Combining insights from literature on labour platforms’ proliferatio...

This chapter looks at migrant women’s paths through life-course lenses and offers an in-depth perspective on women’s lives. They all had a common desire to achieve higher-education degrees, and migration was the only strategy. Family as well as embeddedness in social networks become important triggers for migration, career, and return decisions, an...

This paper addresses the tensions arising from the intersection of norms and practices of support in situations in which intergenerational support is the main household strategy for coping with precariousness in Romania. This paper describes competing meanings of solidarity and reveals gendered experiences of ambiguity with respect to the sustainab...

This paper documents the gendered aspects of changes affecting the life course of Romanians post-socialism, and the meanings men and women—with ages spanning across various age cohorts—employ to make sense of their experiences. Based on qualitative data collected during research on precarious prosperity among Romanian households conducted in 2013,...

This paper investigates the predictors of natives’ perception of the immigrant threat in Romania, an interesting site given immigrants’ marginal presence in the total population and the sizeable proportion of co-ethnic immigrants. Yet the interplay between nationalism and religion shapes an ideological frame that favours unwelcoming attitudes towar...

The article carried out an analysis of employment situation in Romania. The study refers to the different aspects that could conduct to labor market vulnerability. There are considered the main drivers towards precarious work: low revenues, types of labor contracts, labor contract durations or working conditions. The analysis uses both statistical...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative comparative study that looked at the meaning of ‘precarious work’ in households situated in the position of ‘precarious prosperity’ in Switzerland and Romania in 2013. The aim of this research is to explore the experiences of individuals with precarious work and to embed them into their household and...

Driven by the social and political transformations and the general I Meconomic situation, the overall employment situation in Romania M S become very complex. It has shifted from generalized standard employment in socialism to wider informal or non-standardized forms of work. Over the last 25 years, Romania has undergone a very long and difficult t...

This paper looks at both poverty and a specific layer of population in Romania we call precarious prosperity with the goal of understanding the household-level factors that contribute to the likelihood of being in this respective category. Drawing upon the emerging literature on precarious prosperity, this approach is an attempt to look beyond meas...

Roma studies conducted over the last 20 years, in different European countries, depict a general pattern regarding Roma women's employment. Traditionally, Roma women depended on male breadwinners; they worked as housewives and had very low education levels. For this reason, they played a crucial role in preserving Roma traditional culture, raising...

The Country Report for Romania, made and published within the EUINCLUSIVE Project – data transfer and exchange of good experiences regarding the inclusion of Roma population between Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain, aims to point the current situation of the Roma minority monitoring and its social inclusion in the country with the most numerous R...

Social economy

Fundația Soros România a coordonat realizarea unei cercetări sociologice la nivel național, cercetare menită să identifice factorii care influențează (pozitiv şi negativ) nivelul de ocupare la populația de romi din România. Analiza a cuprins următorii factori: nivelul de educație şi formare profesională; discriminarea; cultura muncii; statutul ocup...

Crime as a Cultural Problem. The Relevance of Perceptions of Corruption to Crime Prevention. A Comparative Cultural Study in the EU-Accession States Bulgaria and Romania, the EU-Candidate States Turkey and Croatia and the EU-States Germany, Greece and United Kingdom

This report examines quality of life from the unique perspective of the two acceding countries, Bulgaria and Romania. The historical, political, socioeconomic and cultural contexts of these two countries have meant that their experiences are often quite different to those of the EU Member States. In an attempt to identify the similarities and diffe...

Obiectivele studiului Studiul de faţă şi-a propus să identifice principalele tipuri de activităţi cu implicare în muncă, pe care le desfăşoară unii dintre copiii rromi cu vârste între 6 şi 14 ani. Caracteristicile muncii, cauzele care-i determină pe copii să-şi câştige existenţa de timpuriu şi consecinţele muncii în planul dezvoltării copiilor sunt...

INTRODUCERE Procesul de tranziţie a însemnat modificarea obiectivă importantă a condiţiilor de viaţă ale oamenilor. O privire de ansamblu asupra calităţii vieţii în România relevă puncte în care evaluările indivizilor asupra unor aspecte ale vieţii sunt pozitive, reprezentând elemente de sprijin in viaţa lor, în timp ce alte componente se menţin în...