Mag.a Mag.a Dr.in Maria Sagmeister
Post-Doc (currently on parental leave)
E-Mail: maria.sagmeister@univie.ac.at
Telephone: +43-1-4277-35809
Maria Sagmeister is a legal scholar and art historian. Her research interests include legal gender studies, labour law, social security, and legal philosophy. Maria completed her PhD at the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna in 2020, with a thesis on the law’s contribution to a more equal distribution of unpaid care work. “Geschlechtergerechte Arbeitsteilung” has been published by Verlag Österreich, an English summary is available here: https://doi.org/10.25365/vlr-2019-3-1-93
She joined GAIN in 2021 and currently works on her habilitation on legal regulations of domestic care work. The in_visibility of labour in this field correlates with the fact that it is mostly done in private households, in the context of migration and under precarious legal conditions.
In 2021 Maria Sagmeister was a Post-Doc Track Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
As an art historian, she is interested in artistic strategies of emancipatory visualization. She completed her art history diploma with a thesis on photographic portraits, highlighting three artists who portray queer communities. Maria Sagmeister is a fellow of Ars Iuris and on the editorial board of the critical legal journal "juridikum".
Selected open access publications publications
- Social security coordination and circular migration within the EU: A Case Study on the pension and unemployment entitlements of Eastern European mobile care workers in Austria, in: European Journal of Social Security, 27(3) 2025, 233-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627251369480
- Die Anstellung von Personenbetreuer*innen nach dem Hausbetreuungsgesetz https://ig24.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Care4Care_Anstellung-nach-HBeG_online.pdf
- The Legal Regulation of Domestic Care Work in Austria. A Law and Society Approach to Covid 19 Relief Measures for Migrant Domestic Care Workers, in: Revue des politiques sociales et familiales No. 150 1/2024, https://doi.org/10.3917/rpsf.150.0117.
- Promising Practices for the Employment of Live-In Care Workers in Europe, Studie im Rahmen des Care4Care Projekts von IG24/LEFÖ, Wien 2023.
- Economic Dependence and Parental Protection: A Comparative Analysis of Austrian and Slovenian Labour and Social Security Rights of Economically Dependent Self-Employed Parents, https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525211060362 (mit Sara Bagari)