| 2017 – 2021 | Decent Work? Transnational Home Care Arrangements. D-A CH-Project financed by the German Research Council (DFG) as lead agency, researchers: Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Aranka Wandtke, Iga Obrocka. |
| 2013 – 2015 | Feminism vs. Multiculturalism? On the discursive construction of powerful dilemma s, funded by The Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Re-search and the Arts, research assistant: Kristina Nottbohm |
| 2011- 2012 | Men in the Global Care Chain. A case study on Polish handymen, financed by Ministry of Science, Hessen (Principal investigator) |
| 2010 – 2012 | Reconstructing Biographies in Exile: Chechen Refugee Women in Aus-tria, Germany and Poland. Supervision of Post-Doc Researcher Dr. Al-ice Szczepanikova, A.v. Humboldt Foundation. |
| 2008 – 2010 | Bi-national German-French Grad-school (Theme: Socialisation, Family and Gender in the Context of Migration) in Cooperation with University of Strasburg/F |
| 2007 – 2010 | Landscapes of Care Drain. Care Provision and Care Chains from the Ukraine to Poland and from Poland to Germany, financed by the Ger-man Research Foundation, part of the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORE project: Migration and Networks of Care in Europe. A Comparative Research Project (Principal investigator) |
| 2001- 2005 | Gender, Ethnicity and Identity. The ‚New Maids’ in the Age of Globalisa-tion. Research Project financed by the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 2001 – 2004 | Member of the Scientific Network ‚Servant Project‘, a thematic network financed by the European Union, 5th Framework Programme, Key Ac-tion: Improving the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base‘. (German Princi-pal investigator) |
| 2001 – 2002 | Experience of Space and Place. An Oral-History Project about the living conditions of female domestic workers, township residents in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa; in Co-operation with Prof. Jan Coetzee, Rhodes University, South Africa; supported by the German Scientific Council. |
| 1990 – 1995 | The social heritage of migration: Biographies of Surinamese mothers and daughters, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 1985 – 1990 | Connecting Worlds. Turkish migrant women as mediating social workers in Germany and the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, The Nether-lands. |