He is an anthropologist and a cultural demographer by training. He is also the India research & training coordinator for the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. His main research interests include migration, culture, access to health care, place-meaning and mixed methods. His current research projects focus on ageing in migrant households in India, highly-skilled migration between India and The Netherlands, exchange of social and cultural remittances and care giving. http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.bailey/index