Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy

Field of work

I am a social anthropologist and hold a PhD in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) from Malmö University in Sweden and an MPhil in Anthropology of Development from the University of Bergen. In my doctoral thesis, Expectations and Experiences of Exchange: Migrancy in the Global Market of Care between Spain and Bolivia (2019), I investigated how care is exchanged within and beyond the global market, how the value of this care shifts shape across time and space, and the effects this has on transnational families based in Spain and Bolivia. For the most part I work qualitatively, using ethnographic methods such as interviews and participant observation, and I have also worked with participant methods and peer researchers in my latest project. I have extensive fieldwork experience from Spain, Bolivia, Sweden, and Senegal.

After finishing my PhD I have worked as a researcher at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University. I have been involvedin several international projects investigating, among other topics, the role of norms and values in the Swedish resettlement system and integration field, as well as how care is practiced in transnational families within the context of the Swedish welfare state. In November 2023 I started my new position as associate professor at the Center for Care Research West where I will be doing research within the fields of municipal health and care services, carework, and women's health.