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Professor Loretta Baldassar

Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow

Staff Member Details
Email: l.baldassar@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML18.224  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6246-4773

Professor Loretta Baldassar is Vice Chancellor Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU. She is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.

Current position

In her current role, Professor Baldassar leads a new research group in the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU, the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab. Her team is leading research in social care across the life-course, contributing social science perspectives and methodologies to the creative and caring professions. This approach is targeted at the development of a social care research agenda for the aged care sector to facilitate collaborative communities of care that extend people’s support networks at every age, with a particular focus on:

  1. Social and Cultural Care
  2. Diverse and Migrant Communities
  3. Music and Arts Engagement, and
  4. Digital Ageing and Inclusion.

Loretta is also leading the TRACS Migration Research Network at ECU to support an active program of national and international collaborations. This ECU TRACS Migration Research Network will co-host the Annual Migration Update Conference (launched in 2015), as well as be the Australian university Partner on two  international research projects: (i) UK Sustainable Care Project (2017-21), which has just won further ESRC funding to establish a Centre for Care (2022-27); and (ii) The Decentering Migration Knowledge (DEMIKNOW) project, which brings together four research entities in Canada, India, China and Australia, to create new knowledge about migration scholars from the Global South and North.

Background

Professor Loretta Baldassar began her academic career as a Lecturer in Sociology at Edith Cowan University in 1993. She moved to the Department of Anthropology at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1994, where she developed a migration studies program. In 1999, Loretta co-founded the Western Australian Migration Research Network (MRN), and in 2001 she was awarded a double promotion to Associate Professor, building an international profile in transnational family studies.

From 2009 - 2011 Loretta was Professor and Director of the Monash University Centre in Italy, where she led social inclusion projects with local migrant communities. Loretta returned to UWA in 2012 as Professor and Discipline Chair of Anthropology and Sociology.

In 2011, Loretta co-led the establishment of the Migration Mobilities and Belonging (MMoB) research Network and in 2015, launched an Annual Migration Update conference, bringing together scholars, government, industry, and community representatives.

In 2017, Loretta launched an annual Research Forum on Ageing, with a focus on ageing, migration and diversity issues. In 2019 she established the Social Care and Ageing (SAGE) Living Lab building social science research capacity in the aged care sector through collaborations, evaluation and consultancies in partnership with industry and government.

Research areas and interests

Professor Baldassar has several intersecting areas of research progress and development. What connects these research areas is a focus on social care, family and community relations, culture and linguistic diversity, and the role of new technologies in supporting wellbeing.

  • Transnational Families: Professor Baldassar’s work in transnational family studies is widely cited as foundational to this field of study, including, Families Caring across Borders (2007), which introduced the concept of ‘transnational caregiving’, and Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care (2014), which introduced the concept of care circulation. She continues to supervise several PhD projects in this area.
  • Ageing Across the Life Course: The ARC Discovery Project Ageing and New Media (2016-2020), led by Professor Loretta Baldassar and Associate Professor Raelene Wilding (La Trobe), examines how support networks for older people are affected by their mobility and the dispersal of their family, friends and care services. The project highlights the current and potential role that new media plays in fostering local, distant and virtual support networks of older Australians. From this research, Baldassar and Wilding have introduced the notions of digital kinningdigital homing to better understand the role of new technologies in supporting ageing, safeguarding social and cultural identity and facilitating social care. Two international postdoctoral Fellows: Dr Rosa Brandhorst (German Research Foundation) and Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski (Polish Research Foundation) were affiliated with this project, along with two ongoing PhD projects: Cheng Yen Loo (Chinese Speaking older migrants from Malaysia and Singapore) and Hien Nguyen (Vietnamese older parent migrants and visitors). The Ageing and New Media project provided the foundation for the establishment of the Social Care and Ageing (SAGE) Living Lab and informs the development of the new ECU Research Lab.
  • Internationalisation at Home: Professor Baldassar has been developing student-led research and teaching opportunities in the area of Internationalisation at Home, building on her experience as the Director of the Monash University Study Abroad Centre in Italy. University international student programs are commonly understood to foster intercultural learning, transforming students into global citizens with cross-cultural competencies. Similar benefits are anticipated from Internationalisation at Home (IaH), where the presence of international students on campus enriches the lives of domestic students. However, it is often assumed that these outcomes will occur as a consequence of ‘just being there’. In practice, domestic and international students often inhabit quite separate worlds, with few opportunities for engagement. Facilitating student engagement and improving students’ experiences on campus is of growing concern across the sector, with best practice literature indicating that structured engagement activities deliver internationalisation outcomes more effectively.
  • Italian migration and Disapora Studies: Professor Baldassar is also a leading scholar in Italian migration studies and has had two ARC Linkage projects in this field. Italian Lives (2004-9), which examined the settlement, integration and transnational ties of a century of Italian migration to Australia across the generations and produced a web resource; and Australian Diasporas (2008-11), which examined the economic, social and political factors that facilitate diaspora formation that have flow-on benefits for Australia.
  • Youth Mobilities: This is a current Australian Research Council funded Discover Project led by Professor Anita Harris (Deakin), Professor Loretta Baldassar (ECU) and Associate Professor Shanthi Robertson (Western Sydney). The project explores the experiences of transnational mobility amongst young people moving into and out of Australia in order to understand its real-life effects on their economic opportunities, social and family ties, citizenship and transitions to adulthood. It involves a mixed-methods longitudinal study of 2000 young people aged 18-30. Several PhD projects are affiliated with the Youth Mobilities Project, including Giulia Marchetti (Italian youth mobilities).
  • Music and Arts Engagement: Professor Baldassar is a collaborator on the Good Arts Good Mental Health project led by Dr Christina Davies (UWA). This project, in collaboration with multi-sector partners, aims to create an evidence based, arts-mental health campaign, dose-response message, programs, and provide multi-sector professional development to positively impact community arts engagement and mental wellbeing

Teaching and Supervision

Professor Baldassar has supervised 5 International Postdoctoral Fellows (funded by Marie Curie Fellowship; Polish Research Foundation; German Research Foundation; Australian Research Council; Forrest Foundation); 40 HDR students (7 current, 33 completions). In 2007 she was awarded a UWA Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award and was nominated for this award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2020.

Professional associations

  • Vice President, International Sociological Association Migration Research Committee (RC31)
  • Regional editor, Journal Global Networks
  • Member, The Australian Anthropological Society
  • Member, The Australian Sociological Association
  • Member, Anthropological Society of WA

Awards and recognition

Baldassar is one of Australia’s leading Social Scientists and Internationally recognised leaders in migration and diversity studies. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 she was named Australian Research Field Leader in Migration Studies (Social Sciences) and in 2021 she was also named Research Field Leader in Ethnic and Cultural Studies (Humanities, Arts and Literature) (The Australian, 8 12 2021). Topping the list in both these fields is an exceptional achievement and constitutes public and academic recognition of the world class nature and relevancy of her research. Baldassar was one of only 10 UWA scholars to be named in this Award list and the only woman.

  • 2023 - Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Sheffield
  • 2022 - Research Field Leader in Human Migration (Social Sciences), and in Ethnic and Cultural Studies (Humanities, Arts and Literature) (The Australian, 9 November 2022).
  • 2021 - Research Field Leader in Human Migration (Social Sciences), and in Ethnic and Cultural Studies (Humanities, Arts and Literature) (The Australian, 8 December 2021).
  • 2020 - Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
  • 2020 - Research Field Leader in Human Migration (The Australian, 23 September 2020).
  • 2019 - Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany
  • 2016 - OLT Teaching Award: Program enhancing student learning – Intercultural learning at home
  • 2016 - Australian European University Institute Fellowship, Fiesole, Italy
  • 2015 - Arts Teaching & Service Awards: Project enhancing learning – Internationalisation at home
  • 2015 - 2017 Visiting Professorial Fellow, Trento University, Italy
  • 2014 - Veneti Nel Mondo Service Award (for community engagement), Veneto Government, Italy
  • 2007 - Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award, UWA
  • 2006 - Shortlisted for NSW Regional and Community History Award for Baldassar & Pesman, From Paesani to Global Italians, UWA Press.
  • 2005 - National Italian Australian Women’s Association, Community Service Award
  • 2002 - NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Baldassar, L. Visits Home, Melbourne Uni Press

Research impact

Baldassar has over 30 years of qualitative and mixed methods research expertise and has been CI on 56 projects, of which 20 as Lead CI. Her total research grant income is over AUS$4 million, which is high for qualitative research.She has extensive experience leading research and consultancies across all categories of funding including on large international projects with UK; Canada; Italy; South Africa; China; India: Competitive grants include four Australian Research Council Discover Projects; Australian Academy Social Sciences; Industry and Government grants include Medical Research Future Fund; Commonwealth Department of Human Services; WA Department of Health; WA Department of Communities; Healthways WA; Heart Foundation; Office of Multicultural Interests WA; Lotterywest. Philanthropic Sources : Loretta was principal coordinator of the Cassamarca Australia Project (2000), one of the largest philanthropic gifts to the Social Sciences & Humanities in Australia of approx. $28.5 million (comprising 13 academic positions in Italian studies across Australian universities).

Publications

Professor Baldassar has an outstanding publication record comprising 3 authored and 4 edited books, 11 Special Journal Issues, 57 refereed journal articles (including 4 currently in press), 40 book chapters (including 5 currently in press), 10 consultancy reports/Parliamentary Submissions and 5 Parliamentary Submissions. Of her top 100 publications, she is first author on 65 and sole author on 38. Baldassar has an excellent citation rate; H-index 42, well above average for her discipline. Total Google Scholar citations 8,068 steadily increasing; i10 index 79.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 1995.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Stevens, C., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2024). Friendship, Connection and Loss: Everyday Digital Kinning and Digital Homing among Chinese Transnational Grandparents in Perth, Australia. Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices from the Everyday (113-131). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895524.11.

Journal Articles

  • Reid, N., Young, A., Baldassar, L., Christoffersen, A., Comans, T., Conroy, S., Etherton-Beer, C., Ferris, J., Singh, MF., Fox, S., Gordon, EH., Ghosh, M., Guha, C., Hilmer, S., Kouladjian O'Donnell, L., Logan, B., Ludlow, K., Miller, M., Morgan, M., Mudge, A., Muscedere, J., Reidlinger, D., Rockwood, K., Saunders, R., Ward, D., Yates, P., Hubbard, R. (2024). The Australian Frailty Network: Development of a consumer- focussed national response to frailty. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2024(Article in press), 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13365.
  • Akifeva, R., Baldassar, L., Fozdar, F. (2024). Enacting Migrant Community: Struggles and Unbelonging in the Field of Russian-Speaking Cultural Production. Sociology, 2024(2024), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231219105.

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Stevens, C., Krzyzowski, L., Jones, B. (2023). Diverse Aging and Health Policy for Digital Aging Futures. Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy (). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_88-1.
  • Nguyen, H., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2023). Successful Ageing: The Novel Perspectives and Experiences of Vietnamese Migrants in Australia. Housing and Ageing Policies in Chinese and Global Contexts: Trends, Development, and Policy Issues (53-77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5382-0_4.

Journal Articles

  • Baldassar, L. (2023). Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn. Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 23(1), 160-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12393.
  • Gamage, S., Wilding, R., Baldassar, L. (2023). Digital Media, Ageing And Faith: Older Sri Lankan Migrants In Australia And Their Digital Articulations Of Transnational Religion. Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 23(3), 646-658. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12414.
  • Baldassar, L., Nguyen, M., Jones, B., Stevens, C., Krzyzowski, L., Lozeva, S., Marino, S., Du Plooy, C., Eldridge, J., Almeida, OP., Ghosh, M. (2023). The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on care-givers of people with cognitive impairment and their support needs: a mixed-methods systematic review. Ageing and Society, 2023(Article in press), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X23000752.
  • Thi Nguyen, H., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2023). Care visits: obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4), 996-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2115628.
  • Akifeva, R., Fozdar, F., Baldassar, L. (2023). Experiences Of Culture And Cultural Negotiations Among Russian-Speaking Migrants: National Habitus And Cultural Continuity Dilemmas In Child-Rearing. Ethnicities, 2023(article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968221149167.
  • Kilkey, M., Baldassar, L. (2023). Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023(2023), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2279732.
  • Dewey, B., Baldassar, L., Fozdar, F. (2023). Managing the permanent temporariness of prolonged migration: The role of local and transnational care circulation among Argentine temporary migrants in Australia. Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2023(2023), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12464.

Reports

  • Stevens, C., Baldassar, L., O'Brien, E., Cokis, E., Krzyzowski, L., Du Plooy, C., Jones, B., Noonan, G., Ottolini, F. (2023). Everyone's Business: Research into responses to the abuse of older people (elder abuse) in Western Australia. Perth. SAGE Lab. https://doi.org/978-0-6457361-2-0.
  • Stevens, C., Du Plooy, C., Baldassar, L. (2023). Best practice guidelines for interviewing older people at risk. Perth. Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/3589.

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2022). Transnationalism and care circulation: Mobility, caregiving, and the technologies that shape them. Handbook on Transnationalism (388-403). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904017.00034.
  • Wilding, R., Baldassar, L. (2022). Transnationalism, affect and emotion. Handbook on Transnationalism (93-109). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904017.00012.

Journal Articles

  • Nguyen, H., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2022). Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation to Transnational Lives. Social Inclusion, 10(4), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i4.5735.
  • Marchetti, G., Baldassar, L., Harris, A., Robertson, S. (2022). Sideways moves to adult life: the transnational mobility and transitions of young Italians to Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2145275.
  • Caspersz, D., Casado, R., Kaplanian, C., Fozdar, F., Baldassar, L. (2022). Group Social Capital And The Employment Prospects Of Refugee Women Who Experience Domestic Violence. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 32(4), 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2023.2170760.
  • Wilding, R., Gamage, S., Worrell, S., Baldassar, L. (2022). Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 20(2), 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2046895.
  • Marchetti, G., Baldassar, L., Harris, A., Robertson, S. (2022). Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions. Ethnicities, 22(1), 108-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968211037083.
  • Baldassar, L., Stevens, C., Wilding, R. (2022). Digital Anticipation: Facilitating the Pre-Emptive Futures of Chinese Grandparent Migrants in Australia. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(14), 1863-1879. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221075261.
  • Marchetti, G., Harris, A., Baldassar, L., Robertson, S. (2022). Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: new meanings around adulthood. Journal of Youth Studies, 2022(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2131382.

Reports

  • Baldassar, L., Nguyen, H., Stevens, C. (2022). Working Paper. Literature review on transnational grandparent migration: A view from Australia. Toronto, Canada. Toronto Metropolitan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/2630.

Book Chapters

  • Merla, L., Kilkey, M., Wilding, R., Baldassar, L. (2021). Key developments and future prospects in the study of transnational families. Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family (439-451). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975544.00040.
  • Nguyen, H., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R., Krzyzowski, L. (2021). Researching older Vietnam-born migrants at a distance: the role of digital kinning. Qualitative and Digital Research in Times of Crisis: Methods, Reflexivity, and Ethics (172-187). Policy Press.

Journal Articles

  • Marchetti-Mercer, M., Swartz, L., Baldassar, L. (2021). “Is Granny Going Back into the Computer?”: Visits and the Familial Politics of Seeing and Being Seen in South African Transnational Families. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42(4), 423-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2021.1939280.
  • Brandhorst, R., Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2021). The need for a ‘migration turn’ in aged care policy: a comparative study of Australian and German migration policies and their impact on migrant aged care. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(1), 249-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1629893.

Reports

  • Baldassar, L., Krzyzowski, L., Stevens, C., Lozeva, S. (2021). Raising awareness about ageing in rural and remote communities: An evaluation of an anti-ageism campaign in Pingelly. Perth. University of Western Australia. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10286.64324.
  • Baldassar, L., Krzyzowski, L., Dewey, B., Jones, B. (2021). Social Connection and Digital Skills An evaluation of digital literacy training for diverse older people. Perth, Western Australia. UWA Social Care and Ageing (SAGE) Living Lab.

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Brandhorst, R. (2020). Sibling support in transnational families: The impact of migration and mobility on sibling relationships of support over time and distance. Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relationships Across the Life Course (239–256). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55985-4_14.

Journal Articles

  • Wong, E., Liao, J., Etherton-Beer, C., Baldassar, L., Cheung, G., Dale, C., Flo, E., Husebø, B., Lay-Yee, R., Millard, A., Peri, K., Thokala, P., Wong, C., Chau, P., Chan, C., Chung, R., Yeoh, E. (2020). Scoping review: Intergenerational resource transfer and possible enabling factors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217868.
  • Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. (2020). Migration, Aging, and Digital Kinning: The Role of Distant Care Support Networks in Experiences of Aging Well. The Gerontologist, 60(2), 313-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz156.
  • Du Toit, S., Baldassar, L., Raber, C., Millard, A., Etherton-Beer, C., Buchanan, H., Du Toit, D., Collier, L., Cheung, G., Peri, K., Webb, E., Lovarini, M. (2020). Embracing Cultural Diversity – Leadership Perspectives on Championing Meaningful Engagement for Residents Living with Advanced Dementia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 35(1), 49-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-019-09387-3.
  • Wilding, R., Baldassar, L., Gamage, S., Worrell, S., Mohamud, S. (2020). Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(5), 639-655. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920920278.
  • Harris, A., Baldassar, L., Robertson, S. (2020). Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses. Population, Space and Place, 26(8), article number e2357. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2357.
  • Merla, L., Kilkey, M., Baldassar, L. (2020). Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration. JFR Journal of Family Research, 32(3), 514-536. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-351.

Reports

  • Baldassar, L., Hill, E., Hamilton , M., Brennan, D., Dymond, T., Withers, M., Stevens, C., Kintominas, A. (2020). Submission to the Select Committee on Temporary Migration on the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions: Submission 58. Canberra. Government of Australia.

Journal Articles

  • Juul, A., Wilding, R., Baldassar, L. (2019). The best day of the week: New technology enhancing quality of life in a care home. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(6), article number 1000. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16061000.
  • Sala, E., Baldassar, L. (2019). Killing pigs and talking to nonna: “wog” versus “cosmopolitan” Italianitá among second-generation Italian-Australians and the role of family. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(10), 1651-1668. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1506141.

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Kilkey, M., Merla, L., Wilding, R. (2018). Transnational families in the era of global mobility. Handbook of Migration and Globalisation (431-443). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785367519.00035.

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L. (2017). Who cares? The unintended consequences of policy for migrant families. The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South (105-123). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58799-2_7.
  • Paciocco, A., Baldassar, L. (2017). Italian-Schooled Chinese Migrant Youth in Prato: The Liability of Outsidership and Social Identity Formation. Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study (97-113). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44111-5_6.
  • Baldassar, L. (2017). Australian migrant families and the transnationalisation of care. Critical Reflections on Migration, 'Race' and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context (177-193). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645124.
  • Baldassar, L. (2017). Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in Australia. Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work (120-138). Rutgers University Press.
  • Guercini, S., Ottati, G., Baldassar, L., Johanson, G. (2017). Liabilities of Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Processes of Globalization. Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study (7-29). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44111-5_2.

Journal Articles

  • Baldassar, L., Pyke, J., Ben-Moshe, D. (2017). The Vietnamese in Australia: diaspora identity, intra-group tensions, transnational ties and ‘victim’ status. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(6), 937-955. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1274565.
  • Sala, E., Baldassar, L. (2017). Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second-Generation Italian-Australians. Ethos, 45(3), 386-408. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12173.
  • Näre, L., Walsh, K., Baldassar, L. (2017). Ageing in transnational contexts: transforming everyday practices and identities in later life. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 24(5), 515-523. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1346986.
  • Sala, E., Baldassar, L. (2017). “I don't do much in the community as an Italian, but in my family I do” a critique of symbolic ethnicity through a longitudinal study of second-generation Italian Australians. Journal of Anthropological Research, 73(4), 557-583. https://doi.org/10.1086/694683.
  • Baldassar, L., Ferrero, L., Portis, L. (2017). ‘More like a daughter than an employee’: the kinning process between migrant care workers, elderly care receivers and their extended families. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 24(5), 524-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1345544.
  • McKenzie, L., Baldassar, L. (2017). Missing friendships: understanding the absent relationships of local and international students at an Australian university. Higher Education, 74(4), 701-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0073-1.

Reports

  • Baldassar, L., Stevens, C., Millard, A. (2017). Successful planning for Age-friendly Communities: Evaluation of the Department of Local Government and Communities Age-friendly Communities Local Government Grants Program. Perth. University of Western Australia.

Book Chapters

  • Baldassar, L., Kilkey, M., Merla, L., Wilding, R. (2016). Transnational families, care and wellbeing. Handbook of Migration and Health (477-497). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Baldassar, L. (2016). Mobilities and Communication Technologies: Transforming Care in Family Life. Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility (19-42). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52099-9_2.

Journal Articles

  • Raffaetà, R., Baldassar, L., Harris, A. (2016). Chinese immigrant youth identities and belonging in Prato, Italy: exploring the intersections between migration and youth studies. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 23(4), 422-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1024128.
  • Baldassar, L., McKenzie, L. (2016). Beyond “Just Being There”: Teaching Internationalization at Home in Two Qualitative Methods Units. Teaching Sociology, 44(2), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X16631126.
  • Baldassar, L. (2016). De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: Co-presence, care circulation and polymedia as vibrant matter. Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 16(2), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12109.

Research Projects

  • Pharmacist Review to Optimise Medicines in Residential Aged Care: PROMPT-RC, Department of Health and Aged Care, MRFF - 2022 Quality, Safety and Effectiveness of Medicine Use by Pharmacists, 2023 ‑ 2027.
  • BEFRIENDING WITH GENIE: An intervention to reduce loneliness and increase social support and service access for people living with dementia and their caregivers from CaLD backgrounds, National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF - Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission, 2023 ‑ 2027, $1,480,065.
  • Frailty KIT: An Australian Frailty Network to Create Knowledge, Implement Findings and Support Training, National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF - Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission - 2021 Demenia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant, 2022 ‑ 2027, $185,200.
  • The Pride Intergenerational Housing Pilot Project, Lotterywest, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2026, $45,486.
  • DemiKnow – Decentering Migration Knowledge through an international coalition of research centres in migration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Grant, 2022 ‑ 2025, $29,671.
  • Leadership Development in Not-For-Profit (NPO) Organisations , Richmond Wellbeing, Grant, 2023 ‑ 2024, $10,000.
  • Guide to interviewing older people and identifying/responding to abuse, Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre, Grant, 2023, $20,000.
  • BEFRIENDAS – the impact of befriending on depression, anxiety, social support, and loneliness in older adults living in residential aged care facilities, The National Ageing Research Institute, Grant, 2022 ‑ 2023, $10,871.
  • Home Care Client and Family Caregiver Experience, Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc, Grant, 2023, $69,209.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, DEMENTIA CARE ACROSS BORDERS
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Dynamic intergenerational relationship of Chinese migrant families in Australia and Canada

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The narrative economy of Western Australian truffle markets
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Constructing social identity through language: The case of Chinese migrant youth schooled in Prato (Italy)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Struggling with Alevi identity: an anthropological analysis of the social processes that structure the unequal relationship between the Abdal and Tahtaci communities of Fethiye, southwestern Turkey.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The ltalian-ness is in the family: A critical evaluation of the role of family in constructions of ethnicity and connections to homeland among two cohorts of second generation Italian-Australians
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Social media as third space: Facebook’s role in international student mobility between home and host cultures
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Mixed families: the joint construction of cultural identity within intercultural/interracial migrant families in Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Unlikely settlers in exceptional times: The impact of social class and selective migration policies on the recent migrations of trade skilled workers and their families from China to Perth, Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, ‘The construction and transmission of ethnic identity among Italian-Australians of Calabrian ancestry across three generations’
  • Masters by Research, The formation and contestation of Molokan identities and communities: the Australian experience
  • Doctor of Philosophy, From the porous spaces on the bubble: the life and work of Japanese expatriate employees in Indonesia and their relations with the host society
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A better life[style]: British migration to Western Australia made visible through the lens of consumption
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Trading Places: Greek, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese enterprise in Western Australia

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Masters, The Progressive shpiel: storytelling and the social performance of identity within Perth's progressive Jewish community
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Nortinos’ Fugue: the re-making of social status in the migration context
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A transnational rite of passage: lived experiences of Thai international students in Perth, Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Between national rootedness and cosmopolitan openness: Investigating the politics of belonging as an 'overseas Filipino' in Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Through the eye of a needle: ethnographic engagements with textile creative practice and the meaning of making in contemporary Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, ‘Tradizione e contaminazione’: an ethnography of the contemporary Southern Italian folk revival.
  • Masters by Research, ‘What you do is who you are’: gender identity in the resources industry
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Cultural continuity and discontinuity in a Russian-speaking migrant context: Cultural dilemmas, national habitus and unbelonging
  • Masters, Leading ladies: The re-production of "successful womanhood" in elite, private girls' schooling
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Cultivating indifference: an anthropological analysis of Australia’s policy of mandatory detention, its rhetoric, practices and bureaucratic enactment.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Unpacking "Third culture kids": the transnational lives of young people at an International school in Indonesia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The 1950's Italian Women Migrants to Australia: a Journey Towards a New Self
  • Masters by Research, Postnatal depression vs. suffering: an anthropological approach to South Asian migrant women’s postnatal feelings
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