Mihaela Nedelcu
Biographic Data
| ID | 298959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mihaela Nedelcu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mihaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Nedelcu |
| SIGNATURE | NEDELCU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2382-745X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 439 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Doing Agency through Personal Networks: The Case of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Romania
Advocating the heuristic value of a relational approach, this article investigates how, in the context of forced migration, agency arises from the multiple interactions and interdependencies within refugees’ social networks. Based on qualitative data, it examines the relational mechanisms underlying the coping strategies employed by Ukrainian refugees in Romania. By analysing the reconfigurations of personal networks and flows of social support d…
A retirement mobilities approach to transnational ageing
Transnational ageing processes are usually studied by focusing on the various cross-border practices and mobilities of different categories of ageing migrants. This paper introduces a retirement mobilities approach as an analytical framework that draws on both transnational studies and the new mobilities paradigm to widen the theoretical and empirical debates. It argues that both migrant and non-migrant populations, as well as human and non-human…
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults
This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identified and potentially transnationally dispersed kin and non-kin members. Drawing on original survey d…
What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement
Categorising certain forms of human movement as 'migration' and others as 'mobility' has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration-mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility:…
European instruments for the deportation of foreigners and their uses by France and Switzerland: The application of the Dublin III Regulation and Eurodac
The European Union put in place instruments for the deportation of foreigners that gained much importance. This article describes the multiplicity and diversity of these instruments. To analyse them more clearly, it distinguishes three types: legal, organisational and technological. The article equally points to the increasing relevance of technological tools, especially the use of biometrics. It also looks at how a founding member of the EU, Fra…
Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: The Empowerment-Control Nexus
This special issue makes an in depth analysis of the various and complex interactions between precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants' emancipatory practices enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints created by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migran…
Intersections between Ageing and Migration: Current Trends and Challenges
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Grandparents on the move: A multilevel framework analysis to understand diversity in zero-generation care arrangements in Switzerland
Among the various forms of transnational grandparenting is the engagement of the so-called zero generation - the transnationally mobile parents of adult migrants - in caring for their grandchildren abroad. It constitutes a distinct kind of intergenerational solidarity within transnational families. By taking migrant families in Switzerland as a case in point, in this article we attempt to broaden the existing research by adopting a comparative, q…
Transnational grandparenting: An Introduction
This first special issue dedicated to grandparenting patterns and their significance within transnational families sheds new light on transnational grandparenting as a phenomenon reflecting the convergence of three major transformations in today's societies - global ageing, diversification of migration and mobility flows, and lifestyle individualization. It contains five articles based on empirical studies conducted in several European countries …
Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings
This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking
Ageing as a migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications
This paper starts with a short review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants, particularly in relation to this population’s diversity, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. It then introduces the collection of papers of this special issue by proposing an approach to studying older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. Older migrants mobilise their reso…
Les migrations des Roms roumains en Europe
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Doing family' through ICT-mediatedordinary co-presence: Transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
In this article, we account for the emergence of new ‘being together’ practices that transnational families develop through ICT-mediated communication. Drawing on the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland, we show how political and technological factors, family norms and obligations, as well as individual preferences and aspirations interact and generate novel ordinary co-presence routines that rely on multiple media affordances to recreate a …
Migrants' New Transnational Habitus: Rethinking Migration Through a Cosmopolitan Lens in the Digital Age
This article puts forward a cosmopolitan reading of international migration, focusing on the role played by ICTs in generating new ways of living together and acting transnationally in the digital era. After underlining some of the complex dimensions of the transnational debate and the limits of methodological nationalism, I will argue that revisiting the national-transnational nexus by adopting an 'inclusive cosmopolitan' stance would lead to a …
Transnationalism si integrare in era numerica. Spre un turnant cosmopolitic in studiul migratiilor internationale
En proposant de revisiter le nexus national-transnational dans une perspective cosmopolitique, cet article montre que les théories migratoires ne peuvent pas être dissociées des grands débats épistémologiques et des théories sociales générales. Tout d'abord, à partir d'un bref état des lieux des études transnationales, nous soulignerons quelques limites du nationalisme méthodologique ; pour suggérer ensuite qu'on peut les dépasser en adoptant une…
Cybercitoyenneté” et mobilisation en ligne des migrants: Nouvelles formes de participation transnationale et d’action collective à l’ère du numérique
Introduction: Histoire, constantes et transformations récentes des dynamiques migratoires en Roumanie
La chute du communisme en décembre 1989 et les changements politiques qui s’en suivent ont eu comme conséquence, entre autres, l’ouverture des frontières de la Roumanie. Les citoyens roumains ont retrouvé une liberté fondamentale – celle de pouvoir circuler. Il faut se rappeler que jusqu’alors, pendant le régime communiste, le simple fait de voyager à l’étranger constituait le privilège d’une très faible minorité de personnes, principalement issu…
Les migrants roumains online: Identités, habitus transnationaux et nouveaux modèles du lien social à l’ère du numérique
En proposant une lecture cosmopolitique des migrations internationales, cet article s’intéresse au rôle des TIC dans l’émergence de nouvelles façons de « vivre ensemble » et d’agir à distance à l’ère du numérique. L’étude de l’usage d’Internet au sein des familles et des réseaux transnationaux des professionnels roumains à Toronto permet d’analyser – sous l’angle des habitus transnationaux – les transformations du lien social, des processus de so…
Fonctions multiples, contraintes multiples: Les défis du nouveau paradigme de gestion des zones alluviales suisses
Les zones alluviales constituent un objet environnemental complexe, très révélateur des enjeux sécuritaires, culturels, économiques et écologiques à l'œuvre dans la gestion actuelle des cours d'eau. Cet article, construit sur les résultats d'une recherche interdisciplinaire récente, interroge, à travers trois études de cas, sur la transformation des modes de gestion des cours d'eau en Suisse. Articulant dorénavant les principes de sécurité et de …
Stratégies de migration et d'accès au marché du travail des professionnelles roumaines à Toronto: Rapports de genre et nouvelles dynamiques migratoires
La mobilité accrue des spécialistes et la féminisation grandissante des flux migratoires sont deux traits incontournables des transformations manifestes de nos jours dans le champ des migrations internationales. Cependant, seulement peu d’attention a été accordée aux femmes migrantes dans les études des « skilled migrations ».À partir des résultats d’une recherche en cours focalisée sur les stratégies de reproduction des capitaux des professionne…
Les technologies d'information et de communication: Support de l'émergence d'une diaspora roumaine
Le tournant du XXème siècle, profondément marqué par les effets de la révolution digitale, correspond à une forte re-modélisation des processus migratoires dans leurs structures et leurs dynamiques. Les technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) engendrent des circulations accrues de professionnels à l'intérieur des marchés globaux (les flux migratoires de spécialistes en technologie de l'information étant centraux aux mobilités des pro…
L'utilisation d'un espace virtuel par une communauté de professionnels immigrés: Vers une nouvelle forme d'organisation diasporique
L’expansion des nouvelles technologies d’information et de communication (NTIC) à large échelle entraîne, au niveau des migrations internationales, des nouvelles stratégies de mobilité sociale et géographique ainsi que des mutations profondes dans les comportements sociaux liés au déploiement des ressources en situation migratoire. À partir du cas d’un espace virtuel qui se constitue en noeud de réseaux migratoires, ethniques et professionnels à …
E-stratégies migratoires et communautaires: Le cas des Roumains à Toronto
Un site Internet bien fait peut devenir la meilleure des plates-formes d échangé de "savoir-circuler" entre migrants. L'analyse des ressorts et des implications concrètes du portail The Bans , créé par des informaticiens roumains de Toronto pour leurs compatriotes, montre qu'une forme de "mondialisation par le bas" est en train de se mettre en place. Tout à la fois forum de discussion, bourse aux emplois, chambre de commerce et guide complet à l'…
Migrants' New Transnational Habitus: Rethinking Migration Through a Cosmopolitan Lens in the Digital Age
This article puts forward a cosmopolitan reading of international migration, focusing on the role played by ICTs in generating new ways of living together and acting transnationally in the digital era. After underlining some of the complex dimensions of the transnational debate and the limits of methodological nationalism, I will argue that revisiting the national-transnational nexus by adopting an 'inclusive cosmopolitan' stance would lead to a …
Ageing as a migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications
This paper starts with a short review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants, particularly in relation to this population’s diversity, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. It then introduces the collection of papers of this special issue by proposing an approach to studying older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. Older migrants mobilise their reso…
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Doing family' through ICT-mediatedordinary co-presence: Transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
In this article, we account for the emergence of new ‘being together’ practices that transnational families develop through ICT-mediated communication. Drawing on the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland, we show how political and technological factors, family norms and obligations, as well as individual preferences and aspirations interact and generate novel ordinary co-presence routines that rely on multiple media affordances to recreate a …
Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: The Empowerment-Control Nexus
This special issue makes an in depth analysis of the various and complex interactions between precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants' emancipatory practices enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints created by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migran…
Transnational grandparenting: An Introduction
This first special issue dedicated to grandparenting patterns and their significance within transnational families sheds new light on transnational grandparenting as a phenomenon reflecting the convergence of three major transformations in today's societies - global ageing, diversification of migration and mobility flows, and lifestyle individualization. It contains five articles based on empirical studies conducted in several European countries …
Grandparents on the move: A multilevel framework analysis to understand diversity in zero-generation care arrangements in Switzerland
Among the various forms of transnational grandparenting is the engagement of the so-called zero generation - the transnationally mobile parents of adult migrants - in caring for their grandchildren abroad. It constitutes a distinct kind of intergenerational solidarity within transnational families. By taking migrant families in Switzerland as a case in point, in this article we attempt to broaden the existing research by adopting a comparative, q…
What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement
Categorising certain forms of human movement as 'migration' and others as 'mobility' has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration-mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility:…
Stratégies de migration et d'accès au marché du travail des professionnelles roumaines à Toronto: Rapports de genre et nouvelles dynamiques migratoires
La mobilité accrue des spécialistes et la féminisation grandissante des flux migratoires sont deux traits incontournables des transformations manifestes de nos jours dans le champ des migrations internationales. Cependant, seulement peu d’attention a été accordée aux femmes migrantes dans les études des « skilled migrations ».À partir des résultats d’une recherche en cours focalisée sur les stratégies de reproduction des capitaux des professionne…
European instruments for the deportation of foreigners and their uses by France and Switzerland: The application of the Dublin III Regulation and Eurodac
The European Union put in place instruments for the deportation of foreigners that gained much importance. This article describes the multiplicity and diversity of these instruments. To analyse them more clearly, it distinguishes three types: legal, organisational and technological. The article equally points to the increasing relevance of technological tools, especially the use of biometrics. It also looks at how a founding member of the EU, Fra…
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults
This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identified and potentially transnationally dispersed kin and non-kin members. Drawing on original survey d…
Les migrants roumains online: Identités, habitus transnationaux et nouveaux modèles du lien social à l’ère du numérique
En proposant une lecture cosmopolitique des migrations internationales, cet article s’intéresse au rôle des TIC dans l’émergence de nouvelles façons de « vivre ensemble » et d’agir à distance à l’ère du numérique. L’étude de l’usage d’Internet au sein des familles et des réseaux transnationaux des professionnels roumains à Toronto permet d’analyser – sous l’angle des habitus transnationaux – les transformations du lien social, des processus de so…
E-stratégies migratoires et communautaires: Le cas des Roumains à Toronto
Un site Internet bien fait peut devenir la meilleure des plates-formes d échangé de "savoir-circuler" entre migrants. L'analyse des ressorts et des implications concrètes du portail The Bans , créé par des informaticiens roumains de Toronto pour leurs compatriotes, montre qu'une forme de "mondialisation par le bas" est en train de se mettre en place. Tout à la fois forum de discussion, bourse aux emplois, chambre de commerce et guide complet à l'…
L'utilisation d'un espace virtuel par une communauté de professionnels immigrés: Vers une nouvelle forme d'organisation diasporique
L’expansion des nouvelles technologies d’information et de communication (NTIC) à large échelle entraîne, au niveau des migrations internationales, des nouvelles stratégies de mobilité sociale et géographique ainsi que des mutations profondes dans les comportements sociaux liés au déploiement des ressources en situation migratoire. À partir du cas d’un espace virtuel qui se constitue en noeud de réseaux migratoires, ethniques et professionnels à …
E-stratégies migratoires et communautaires: Le cas des Roumains à Toronto
Un site Internet bien fait peut devenir la meilleure des plates-formes d échangé de "savoir-circuler" entre migrants. L'analyse des ressorts et des implications concrètes du portail The Bans , créé par des informaticiens roumains de Toronto pour leurs compatriotes, montre qu'une forme de "mondialisation par le bas" est en train de se mettre en place. Tout à la fois forum de discussion, bourse aux emplois, chambre de commerce et guide complet à l'…
Les technologies d'information et de communication: Support de l'émergence d'une diaspora roumaine
Le tournant du XXème siècle, profondément marqué par les effets de la révolution digitale, correspond à une forte re-modélisation des processus migratoires dans leurs structures et leurs dynamiques. Les technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) engendrent des circulations accrues de professionnels à l'intérieur des marchés globaux (les flux migratoires de spécialistes en technologie de l'information étant centraux aux mobilités des pro…
Stratégies de migration et d'accès au marché du travail des professionnelles roumaines à Toronto: Rapports de genre et nouvelles dynamiques migratoires
La mobilité accrue des spécialistes et la féminisation grandissante des flux migratoires sont deux traits incontournables des transformations manifestes de nos jours dans le champ des migrations internationales. Cependant, seulement peu d’attention a été accordée aux femmes migrantes dans les études des « skilled migrations ».À partir des résultats d’une recherche en cours focalisée sur les stratégies de reproduction des capitaux des professionne…
Fonctions multiples, contraintes multiples: Les défis du nouveau paradigme de gestion des zones alluviales suisses
Les zones alluviales constituent un objet environnemental complexe, très révélateur des enjeux sécuritaires, culturels, économiques et écologiques à l'œuvre dans la gestion actuelle des cours d'eau. Cet article, construit sur les résultats d'une recherche interdisciplinaire récente, interroge, à travers trois études de cas, sur la transformation des modes de gestion des cours d'eau en Suisse. Articulant dorénavant les principes de sécurité et de …
Transnationalism si integrare in era numerica. Spre un turnant cosmopolitic in studiul migratiilor internationale
En proposant de revisiter le nexus national-transnational dans une perspective cosmopolitique, cet article montre que les théories migratoires ne peuvent pas être dissociées des grands débats épistémologiques et des théories sociales générales. Tout d'abord, à partir d'un bref état des lieux des études transnationales, nous soulignerons quelques limites du nationalisme méthodologique ; pour suggérer ensuite qu'on peut les dépasser en adoptant une…
Cybercitoyenneté” et mobilisation en ligne des migrants: Nouvelles formes de participation transnationale et d’action collective à l’ère du numérique
Introduction: Histoire, constantes et transformations récentes des dynamiques migratoires en Roumanie
La chute du communisme en décembre 1989 et les changements politiques qui s’en suivent ont eu comme conséquence, entre autres, l’ouverture des frontières de la Roumanie. Les citoyens roumains ont retrouvé une liberté fondamentale – celle de pouvoir circuler. Il faut se rappeler que jusqu’alors, pendant le régime communiste, le simple fait de voyager à l’étranger constituait le privilège d’une très faible minorité de personnes, principalement issu…
Les migrants roumains online: Identités, habitus transnationaux et nouveaux modèles du lien social à l’ère du numérique
En proposant une lecture cosmopolitique des migrations internationales, cet article s’intéresse au rôle des TIC dans l’émergence de nouvelles façons de « vivre ensemble » et d’agir à distance à l’ère du numérique. L’étude de l’usage d’Internet au sein des familles et des réseaux transnationaux des professionnels roumains à Toronto permet d’analyser – sous l’angle des habitus transnationaux – les transformations du lien social, des processus de so…
Migrants' New Transnational Habitus: Rethinking Migration Through a Cosmopolitan Lens in the Digital Age
This article puts forward a cosmopolitan reading of international migration, focusing on the role played by ICTs in generating new ways of living together and acting transnationally in the digital era. After underlining some of the complex dimensions of the transnational debate and the limits of methodological nationalism, I will argue that revisiting the national-transnational nexus by adopting an 'inclusive cosmopolitan' stance would lead to a …
Les migrations des Roms roumains en Europe
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Doing family' through ICT-mediatedordinary co-presence: Transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
In this article, we account for the emergence of new ‘being together’ practices that transnational families develop through ICT-mediated communication. Drawing on the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland, we show how political and technological factors, family norms and obligations, as well as individual preferences and aspirations interact and generate novel ordinary co-presence routines that rely on multiple media affordances to recreate a …
Ageing as a migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications
This paper starts with a short review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants, particularly in relation to this population’s diversity, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. It then introduces the collection of papers of this special issue by proposing an approach to studying older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. Older migrants mobilise their reso…
Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings
This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking
Intersections between Ageing and Migration: Current Trends and Challenges
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Grandparents on the move: A multilevel framework analysis to understand diversity in zero-generation care arrangements in Switzerland
Among the various forms of transnational grandparenting is the engagement of the so-called zero generation - the transnationally mobile parents of adult migrants - in caring for their grandchildren abroad. It constitutes a distinct kind of intergenerational solidarity within transnational families. By taking migrant families in Switzerland as a case in point, in this article we attempt to broaden the existing research by adopting a comparative, q…
Transnational grandparenting: An Introduction
This first special issue dedicated to grandparenting patterns and their significance within transnational families sheds new light on transnational grandparenting as a phenomenon reflecting the convergence of three major transformations in today's societies - global ageing, diversification of migration and mobility flows, and lifestyle individualization. It contains five articles based on empirical studies conducted in several European countries …
European instruments for the deportation of foreigners and their uses by France and Switzerland: The application of the Dublin III Regulation and Eurodac
The European Union put in place instruments for the deportation of foreigners that gained much importance. This article describes the multiplicity and diversity of these instruments. To analyse them more clearly, it distinguishes three types: legal, organisational and technological. The article equally points to the increasing relevance of technological tools, especially the use of biometrics. It also looks at how a founding member of the EU, Fra…
Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: The Empowerment-Control Nexus
This special issue makes an in depth analysis of the various and complex interactions between precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants' emancipatory practices enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints created by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migran…
A retirement mobilities approach to transnational ageing
Transnational ageing processes are usually studied by focusing on the various cross-border practices and mobilities of different categories of ageing migrants. This paper introduces a retirement mobilities approach as an analytical framework that draws on both transnational studies and the new mobilities paradigm to widen the theoretical and empirical debates. It argues that both migrant and non-migrant populations, as well as human and non-human…
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults
This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identified and potentially transnationally dispersed kin and non-kin members. Drawing on original survey d…
What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement
Categorising certain forms of human movement as 'migration' and others as 'mobility' has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration-mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility:…
Doing Agency through Personal Networks: The Case of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Romania
Advocating the heuristic value of a relational approach, this article investigates how, in the context of forced migration, agency arises from the multiple interactions and interdependencies within refugees’ social networks. Based on qualitative data, it examines the relational mechanisms underlying the coping strategies employed by Ukrainian refugees in Romania. By analysing the reconfigurations of personal networks and flows of social support d…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works)