Sonila Danaj

Research Team Leader

Employment and Labour Mobility

EDUCATION

PhD (expected) in Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

LANGUAGES

Albanian, English, Italian, Spanish

CONTACT

Phone: +43 1 319 45 05-26
E-mail: danaj@euro.centre.org

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Labour mobility, atypical employment, working conditions, migrant labour, trade unions and migrant workers, industrial relations institutions, social dialogue in Eastern Europe

PROJECTS

Analytical and methodological support in qualitative analysis, mapping and mixed methods

Enhancing the collection and analysis of national data on intra-EU posting

Contracting chains and recruitment patterns of posted third-country nationals within the European Union

Peer reviews and mutual learning activities in the fields of employment, social affairs and inclusion

Sustainable and socially just transnational sectoral labour markets

Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Danaj, S., & Meszmann, T. T. (2024). Weathering intermediated temporary labour mobility: social partners in Central and Eastern Europe after EU enlargement. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 30(1), 67-85.
Danaj, S., Toplak, K. & Vah Jevšnik, M. (2024). Access to information on the posting of workers – Construction companies’ practices and challenges. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
Danaj, S., Vah Jevšnik, M., Kiełbasa, M., & Szaraniec, M. (2023). There and gone again? Migration to and posting of third-country nationals from Slovenia and Poland. European Labour Law Journal, 20319525231165851.
Danaj, S., Kayran, E. N., & Geyer, L. (2023). The motility of posted workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: policies, trends and worker experiences in Austria. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Vol. 43 No. 3/4, pp. 323-338.
Danaj, S. (2022). Safety vulnerabilities of transnational workers and union responses in the British construction sector. Travailleur. e. s détaché. e. s en Europe., 55.
Çaro, E., & Danaj, S. (2022). Albanian migrants’ career pathways and their responses to the challenges of the economic crisis in Italy. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19.
Danaj, S., Wagner, I. (2021). Beware of the “poverty migrant”: media discourses on EU labour migration and the welfare state in Germany and the UK. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-27.
Danaj, S., Hollan, K. & Scoppetta, A. (2020). Labour mobility and OSH vulnerability of posted workers: the cases of Austria and the Slovak Republic. In: Diaz Bretones, F. & Santos, A. (Eds.), Health, safety and wellbeing of migrant workers. Basel: Springer.
Danaj, S., Geyer, L., Cukut Krilić, S., Toplak, K. & Vah Jevšnik, M. (2020). From Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria via Slovenia: Migration and Posting of Third Country Nationals in the EU. A Regional Case Study, European Centre Report. Vienna: European Centre.
Lillie, N., Berntsen, L., Wagner, I. & Danaj, S. (2020). A comparative analysis of union responses to posted work in four European countries. In: Arnholtz, J. & Lillie, N. (Eds.), Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement. London: Routledge.
Danaj, S. & Zólyomi, E. (2019). Institutional Capacities for Implementing the Posting of Workers Directive in the Western Balkans: A Needs Assessment. Vienna: European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research.
Danaj, S. & Zólyomi, E. (2018). Occupational Health and Safety of Posted Workers in the EU: A Comparative Report. POOSH – Occupational Safety and Health of Posted Workers: Depicting the existing and future challenges in assuring decent working conditions and wellbeing of workers in hazardous sectors. Vienna: European Centre.
Danaj, S., Caro, E., Mankki, L., Sippola, M. & Lillie, N. (2018). Unions and migrant workers: The perspective of Estonians in Finland and Albanians in Italy and Greece. In: Doellgast, V., Lillie, N. & Pulignano, V. (Eds.), Reconstructing solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe. Oxford University Press.

Danaj CV