Mihaela Hărăguș

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3761-1377

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ro/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=9awWyO8AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

Projects coordinated (Project director):

• 2015-2017 – Solidaritatea intergeneraţională în contextul migraţiei pentru muncă în străinătate. Situaţia vârstnicilor rămaşi acasă [Intergenerational solidarity in the context of work migration abroad. Situation of older people remained at home]. Project CNCSIS UEFISCDU, PN-II-TU-TE-2014-4-1377. 
• 2010-2012 – Cauze și consecințe ale comportamentului reproductiv extramarital în România. O analiză din perspectiva cursului vieții [Causes and consequences of extramarital fertility in Romania. An analysis from the lifecourse perspective]. Project CNCSIS UEFISCSU,  PN II-RU, PD_398/2010. 

UBB team coordinator in international projects:

• 2023-2026 – Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe (CareOrg). Coordinator: University of Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Sociology. 2023-2026. Funding: Volkswagen Foundation. https://careorg.eu/
• 2026-2029 – Un(der)declared work and fragmented rights in the care sector: promoting social protection for workers (Rights4CareWork). Horizon Europe (HORIZON). Coordinator University of Padova.

Researcher in international projects: 

• 2026-2028 – Caring for the Vulnerable – Transnational Social Protection of Bangladeshi Migrants’ Families in the EU – CASTLE 2, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, coordinator Babeș-Bolyai University.
• 2021-2023 – Children Left Behind by Labour Migration: Supporting Moldovan and Ukrainian Transnational families in the EU, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, coordinator Babeș-Bolyai University. https://fspac.ubbcluj.ro/castleaction/en
• FamiliesAndSocieties. Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations, FP7, coordinator Stockholm University. http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/?page_id=131
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality: Evidence and Policies in Cities of Europe – INEQ-CITIES, coordonator Agencia de Salut Publica de Barcelona, Spain; 
• Childbearing trends and policies, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Rostock and Atlanta USA; 
• Generations and Gender Contextual Database, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. 

Researcher in national projects (selected): 

• Historical Population Database of Transylvania; 
• Understanding family change from the life course perspective. Romania in European context; 
• Mixed marriages: between an exercise of tolerance and the modern expression of indifference, 1890-1910; 
• Situation of older people in Romania; 
• Methodology for assessing the impact of family policies on behavior and evolution of family structures in regional and national perspective;
• Romanian Generations and Gender Survey. Research report; 
• Evaluation of home care services of Caritas organization; 
• The impact of political, social, economic, cultural and ideational changes on recent evolutions of family related demographic behavior. Romania in an international comparative perspective.

Publications (selected)

Articles: 

Holom, E.C., & Hărăguş, M. (2025). A Detailed Individual-Level Analysis of Tuberculosis-Related Deaths Among Adults. Historical Life Course Studies 15: 175-185. https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs23064

Holom, E.C., & Hărăguş, M. (2025). The social, economic, and environmental unequal impact of cholera on deaths: an analysis of the 1872–1873 epidemic in Transylvania. The History of the Family. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2025.2493654

Telegdi-Csetri, Á., Ducu, V., & Hărăguș, M. (2025). Voices, imaginaries and agency of Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational children. Families, Relationships and Societies, 14(1), 26-43. https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000047

Ducu, V., Telegdi-Csetri, Á. & Hărăguș, M. (2024). Local and transnational participation of families with stay-behind children in the hybrid transnational social protection nexus, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50:17, 4279-4297. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2357829

Ducu, V., Hărăguș, M., Angi, D., & Telegdi-Csetri, Á. (2023). Asserting children’s rights through the digital practices of transnational families. Family Relations 72(2): 458-477.  https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12828

Dumănescu, L., Hărăguș, M., Lumezeanu, A., Holom, E. C., Hegedus, N., Mârza, D., Covaci, D., & Bolovan, I. (2022). Historical Population Database of Transylvania. Sources, Particularities, Challenges, and Early Findings. Historical Life Course Studies 12: 133–150. https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs12038

Hărăguş, M. (2022). Notes on the Level of Fertility in Romania, as Shown by International Statistical Data. Romanian Journal of Population Studies XVI(2): 129-140. https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2022.2.06

Holom, E. C., Hărăguș, M., Bolovan, I. (2021). Socioeconomic and Marital-Status Inequalities in Longevity: Adult Mortality in Transylvania, 1850–1914, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 51 (4): 533–564. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01627

Hărăguș, M., Földes, I. (2020). The Demographic Profile of Rural Areas in Romania. Calitatea Vieții [Quality of Life] 31(4): 289–317. https://doi.org/10.46841/RCV.2020.04.01

Holom, C, Sorescu, O., Hărăguș, M. (2018). Beyond the Visible Pattern: Historical Particularities, Development, and Age at First Marriage in Transylvania, 1850–1914, History of the Family, 23(2): 329-358 

Castiglioni, M., Hărăguș, M., Faludi, C., & Hărăguș,  Cristina, Haragus Paul Teodor (2016), Is the Family System in Romania Similar to those of Southern European Countries?, Comparative Population Studies 41(1): 56-87 

Hărăguş, M. (2015). From Cohabitation to Marriage When a Child Is on the Way. A Comparison of Three Former Socialist Countries: Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 46(3): 329-350. 

Hoem, J.M., Mureșan, C., Hărăguş, M. (2013). Caractéristiques récentes de la fécondité des couples mariés et non mariés en Roumanie, Population Edition française, 68(4): 667-695. https://doi.org/10.3917/popu.1304.0667.

Hărăguş, M. (2012). Non-standard life courses of people in Transylvania. A comparison between Romanian and Hungarian ethnics, Transylvanian Review, XXI (3): 47-62. 

Hărăguş, M. (2011). Early motherhood in Romania: associated factors and consequences, Revista de cercetare şi intervenţie socială, 32: 63 – 85. 

Mureşan, C.; Hărăguş, P.T.; Hărăguş, M., Schroder, C. (2008). Romania: Childbearing metamorphosis within a changing context, Demographic Research, 19: 855-906. 

Chapters 

Hărăguș, M., Földes, I. (2022). Dinamica demografică în mediul rural, la intersecția dintre zonele marginalizate și zonele urbane funcționale. In Stănescu, I. & Mihalache, F. (Eds) Romania rurală în noul capitalism [Rural Romania in the new capitalism], Editura Pro Universitaria, pp. 57-80.

Hărăguș, M. (2022). Intergenerational Contacts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Personal or Electronic?. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13331. Springer, Cham.

Hărăguș, M., Ducu, V., Földes, I. (2021). Intergenerational Relations in the Context of Migration: Gender Roles in Family Relationships. In: Castrén, AM., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_25

Hărăguș, M., Földes I., & Savu, V. (2018). Older Parents in Romania as a Resource for their Migrant Adult Children, in Ducu, V., Nedelcu, M., Telegdi-Csetri, A. (Eds.) Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings, Springer, pp. 155-173 

Hărăguș, M., & Telegdi-Csetri, V. (2018) Intergenerational Solidarity in Romanian Transnational Families, in Crespi, I., Merla, L., Meda, S.G. (Eds.) Making multicultural families in Europe: gender and generational relations, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-177 

Hărăguş, M. (2017). Formation of Mixed Marriages, in Bolovan, I., Dumănescu, L. (Eds.) Mixed Marriages in Transylvania, Peter Lang Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main, pp.137-146

Hărăguş, M. (2014). The role of education in ethnically mixed marriages, in Dumănescu, L., Eppel, M, Mârza, D. (eds), Intermarriage throughout History, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp. 389-407.

Books (author/co-author)

Rotariu, T., Dumănescu, L, Hărăguș, M. (2017), Demografia României în perioada postbelică [Romania’s demography in the post-war period], Iași: Polirom.

Hărăguș, M. (2008). Tranziţia la statutul de părinte în Europa: evoluţii recente şi posibili determinanţi [Transition to parenthood in Europe: recent evolutions and possible determinants], Presa Universitară Clujeană