Anoek Hofkens is an editor (online and TV) at the Dutch daily talk show Jinek. Prior to that, she worked for the feminist monthly magazine OpzijNRC Nextand OneWorld.

She has been on several reporting missions abroad, including the United States (2017), Suriname (2010, 2012, 2014) and Uganda (2013). Her work focuses on global developments from the perspective of the individual. She studied Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Journalism at the Fontys College for Journalism.

Anoek Hofkens

Info

Name
Anoek Hofkens
Title
Journalist / Researcher
Expertise
Global developments
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam

Supported projects

Elderly care as a new lucrative playground for labour market fraudsters

  • Healthcare
  • Exploitation
  • Work

BRUSSELS - Vulnerable Bulgarian women are coming to Belgium and the Netherlands to live with elderly people who prefer to stay at home rather than go to a nursing home. They will care for these elderly people during the last years or months of their lives. This research is a case study of the practices of Seniorcare24, a major provider of these services in the Low Countries, and the fate of the caregivers seconded by this company from Bulgaria.