Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy

Biography

I have a degree in social anthropology and a master in developmental anthropology, both from the University of Bergen in Norway. My master project was about migration from Senegal to Spain. I investigated how the 'Senegalese migration project' was constructed in the meeting of socio-cultural practices and global structures. In March 2013, I started as a Willy Brandt PhD student at MIM (Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare), and the work name of my PhD student project is Mobile Development? The Empowerment of Bolivian Women through Transnational Migration ". In the project, I will investigate how the Bolivian experience of migration to Spain reflects the links between our globalized world, with its hegemonic discourse of "development" and changes in within and beyond family relations in Bolivian transnational families. I focus especially on immigrant women's experiences and investigate how the migration project, as a strategy for accumulating financial capital, can also provide the Bolivian (female) migrant worker with other forms of capital (socially, culturally, symbolically), and in practice change converted power relations on family and / or community level. I will also look at the possible catalytic effect that the current economic crisis may have in terms of creating these changes. I conduct ethnographic field work in both Spain and Bolivia, but also uses existing surveys to get quantitative data as well.

Research Interest

Social Sciences  Social Anthropology  Transnational Migration  Labor Migration  Development  Empowerment  Gender  Migration