Emma Fàbrega Domènech has a Masters in Anthropological Research from the University of Manchester and a PhD in social and cultural anthropoloy from the University of Barcelona. Her areas of expertise are identity, ageing, and privileged migration, with a special focus on later life and retirement migration flows from the UK to Spain. She applies an intersectional lens to her research to explore the intricacies between privilege and precarity in later life projects.

Recent publications include:

• Fàbrega Domènech, E. (2023) “It’s not a vacation, it’s your life”. Privileged identities, ageing experiences, and migration projects of British retirees on the coasts of Spain. Repository Universitat de Barcelona 
• Fàbrega, E. (2020) “There are worse places to spend a lockdown”: Privileged and at risk British retirees in Spain. In Age of COVID-19 Series, Somatosphere. 
• Mancinelli, F. & Fàbrega, E. (2020) Moverse para ser. Identidad y nuevos imaginarios de valores en la experiencia de nómadas digitales y jubilados expatriados. In Jubany, O. & Guasch, O., Intersecciones encarnadas: [con]textos críticos en género, identidad y diversidad. Ediciones Bellaterra: 31-54.
• Fàbrega, E. (2019) Problematizando la “buena vida” en la Costa del Sol: Detectando diversidad entre experiencias privilegiadas de migrantes jubilados Norte Europeos. Quaderns 35, 61-75.