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Marita Eastmond

Marita Eastmond (Photo: Kristina Båth)Social Anthropolog
PhD, Senior lecturer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About

PhD 1989; Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies. Post doc 1990-91 at the University of Oxford, Centre for Refugee Studies. Visiting Scholar: University of Oxford, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, State University of New York; Institute of Ethnology/University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Employed at the School of Global Studies; during 2007-2011 also holding a part time appointment as Professor at the Nordic School of Public Health, Center for Migration and Health.

Areas of interest

Three anthropological areas of interest converge in my research to date: Political anthropology, with special interest in the politics of expulsion, asylum and exile (Chile, USA, Sweden); as well as the reconstruction and reconciliation of wartorn societies (Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Medical anthropology with special interest in the politics of trauma, ’normalcy’ and the medicalisation of refugees (Sweden). Asylum seeking children and the politics of vulnerability in Sweden. The Anthropology of Migration, especially the processes of social incorporation of migrants and refugeegs and Sweden; return of migrants and reintegration in the country of origin (Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina); Migrants’ transnational networks and everyday lives (Sweden Bosnia-Herzegovina) Cirkular migration and development, in policy and practice.

Etnographic fields of research: Chile, USA, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden

Current research

Precarious peacebuilding (Sida/SAREC). With peace researchers at the universities of Gothenburg, Lund and Uppsala

The new developers? Circular migration in policy and practice (Sida/SAREC) Projekt leader. Together with Lisa Åkesson (anthropology) och Maria Eriksson Baaz (peace and development), both at the School of Global Studies.

Teaching and tutoring

  • Medical Anthropology (basic level)
  • Migration, Power and Identity (advanced level)
  • Narratives and Life Stories (advanced/research level)
  • Etnography as Method (research level)
  • Migration and Health (NHV, advanced and research level)
  • Global health and Culture (NHV, research level) 

Field Experience

Chile, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, USA, Sweden (long-term).
Zambia, Guatemala, Vietnam (consultancies)

Selected conferences and presentations

(Organiser of international conferences/sessions; Invited talks)

  • 1998: Conference Organiser, Nordic Network of Medical Anthropologists, Göteborg
  • 2001: Invited Session paper "Return and the Notions of Home-Coming" AAA, Washington
  • 2002: Keynote Address, "The Dreams and Realities of Coming Home: The Imaginations, Policies, Practices and Experiences of Return Migration" Workshop Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University.
  • 2003: Workshop organiser (m. Åkesson) Nordic anthropology meeting on Translocal field Methods.
  • 2004: Session Organiser, "Beyond Exile: Refugee strategies in Transnational contexts" (9th IASFM conference, Chiang Mai.
  • 2004: Conference Organiser, "The Asylum-Seeking Child in Europe", Göteborg
  • 2005: Invited Talk, "Accommodating Difference in Bosnia. Ten Years After Dayton" Chr. Michelsen Institutt Bergen.
  • 2005: Conference Organiser, Nordic Meeting on Asylum-Seeking Children, Göteborg
  • 2006: Session Organiser, "Children as Forced Migrants", 10th IASFM, Toronto
  • 2006: Invited talk, "Sociala Läkningsprocesser" Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm
  • 2007: Invited talk, "Dilemmas of repatriation and return - Between policy ideals and migrant practices". Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS), Copenhagen

Assignments at universities abroad

  • Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre (1991)
  • Visiting professor, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (1992)
  • Visiting professor, State University of New York (Autumn 1997)
  • Hanoi University & Institute of Ethnology Hanoi, Capacity building (Spring 1999 and 2000)

Publications

2012

  • Lisa Ottosson; Marita Eastmond; Isabell Schierenbeck (2012).
    Safeguarding a Child Perspective in Asylum Reception: Dilemmas of Children’s Case Workers in Sweden , GUP 156314

2011

  • Marita Eastmond; Henry Ascher (2011).
    In the best interests of the child? The politics of vulnerability and negotiations for asylum in Sweden , GUP 110550

2010

  • Hans E Andersson; Ulla Björnberg; Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Introduktion , GUP 127354

  • Hans E Andersson; Henry Ascher; Ulla Björnberg; Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Mellan det förflutna och framtiden. Asylsökande barns välfärd, hälsa och välbefinnande , GUP 134364

  • Ulla Björnberg; Marita Eastmond; Henry Ascher (2010).
    Asylsökande barn 1104-6376, GUP 131434

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden , GUP 110548

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Introduction: Reconciliation, reconstruction, and everyday life in war-torn societies 1558-5263 , GUP 110581

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Narratives and the politics of lived experience: Perspectives from the anthropology of forced migration , GUP 110572

  • Marita Eastmond; Anders Stefansson (2010).
    Beyond Reconciliation: Social reconstruction after the Bosnian war , GUP 127370

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Familjer flyr med hopp i bagaget 1404-6857, GUP 131435

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    Gäster i välfärden? Föräldraskap i asylprocessen , GUP 127343

  • Marita Eastmond (2010).
    The quest for 'normal life': The reconstitution of welfare and the Bosnian postwar experience , GUP 133679

2009

  • Marita Eastmond (2009).
    'Suffering bodies': Asylum-seeking children and the politics of vulnerability in the Swedish asylum process. , GUP 110596

  • Marita Eastmond (2009).
    Asylum-seeking children: The politics of vulnerability and the dilemmas of a welfare state , GUP 110750

  • Marita Eastmond (2009).
    Between dream and disaster: Asylum-seeking children and transitions to 'home' , GUP 110759

2008

  • Marita Eastmond (2008).
    “In the best interest of the child”: Policies as negotiated practice in the reception of asylum-seeking children and their families , GUP 110593

2007

  • Marita Eastmond (2007).
    Familjens välfärdsprojekt: Att återskapa hem och vardagsliv på flera platser , GUP 100505

  • Marita Eastmond; Lisa Åkesson (2007).
    Globala familjer: Transnationell migration och släktskap , GUP 41068

  • Marita Eastmond; Lisa Åkesson (2007).
    Introduktion , GUP 74421

  • Marita Eastmond (2007).
    Stories as lived experience: Narratives in forced migration research 0951-6328, GUP 69765

  • Marita Eastmond (2007).
    Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina , GUP 117026

2006

  • Richard Black; Marita Eastmond; Saskia Gent (2006).
    Introduction. Sustainable Return in the Balkans: Beyond Property Restitution and Policy 0020-7985, GUP 69780

  • Richard Black; Marita Eastmond; Saskia Gent (2006).
    Sustainable Return in the Balkans: Beyond Property Restitution and Policy , GUP 100499

  • Marita Eastmond (2006).
    Social återuppbyggnad och försoningsprocesser i krigsdrabbade samhällen: Fallet Bosien , GUP 116312

  • Marita Eastmond (2006).
    Asylum-seeking children in Sweden: Their welfare, health and wellbeing , GUP 116342

  • Marita Eastmond (2006).
    Transnational returns and reconstruction in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina 0020-7985, GUP 69771

2005

  • Hans E Andersson; Henry Ascher; Ulla Björnberg; Marita Eastmond; Lotta Mellander (2005).
    The Asylum-seeking Child in Europe , GUP 31082

  • Marita Eastmond (2005).
    Beyond exile , GUP 41237

  • Marita Eastmond (2005).
    Dealing with difference: Responses to post-war education in Bosnia-Herzegovina , GUP 116336

  • Marita Eastmond (2005).
    Om flyktingskap och normalitet: Bosnier i 1990-talets Sverige , GUP 40343

  • Marita Eastmond (2005).
    The disorders of displacement: Bosnian refugees and the reconstitution of normality , GUP 40240

2004

  • Marita Eastmond (2004).
    Beyond exile: Refugee strategies in transnational contexts , GUP 116344

  • Marita Eastmond (2004).
    Den traumatiserade flyktingen 0037-833X, GUP 40236

  • Marita Eastmond; Melita Čukur (2004).
    Education and the relevance of national identities: Responses to post-war curricula in two local settings in Bosnia-Herzegovina , GUP 71416

2003

  • Marita Eastmond; Melita Cukur (2003).
    Education and new national identities: Local responses to new curricula in Bosnia-Herzegovina , GUP 117016

2002

  • Marita Eastmond (2002).
    Reconstruction and the politics of homecoming: Repatriation of refugees in Cambodia , GUP 71396

  • Marita Eastmond; Christopher McDowell (2002).
    Transitions, state-building and the 'residual' refugee problem: The East Timor and Cambodian repatriation experience 1323-238X, GUP 69774

2001

  • Marita Eastmond (2001).
    Refugees, in Anthropology , GUP 100465

2000

  • Marita Eastmond (2000).
    Recension. W Courtland Robinson: Terms of Refuge:The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response , GUP 100453

  • Marita Eastmond (2000).
    Refugees and health: Ethnographic approaches , GUP 69779

1998

  • Marita Eastmond (1998).
    Nationalist discourses and the construction of difference: Bosnian muslim refugees in Sweden 0951-6328, GUP 69775

  • Marita Eastmond (1998).
    Recension av Malkki, L. : The Purity of Exile. Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania , GUP 100451

  • Marita Eastmond; Joakim Öjendal (1998).
    Revisiting a 'Repatriation Success': The Case of Cambodia , GUP 101284

1997

  • Marita Eastmond (1997).
    The dilemmas of exile: Chilean refugees in the U.S.A. , GUP 69778

1996

  • Marita Eastmond (1996).
    'Luchar y Sufrir': stories of life and exile. Reflections on the ethnographic process 0014-1844, GUP 69777

  • Marita Eastmond (1996).
    Det Goda, det Onda, det Friska: Om människosyn och moralitet i ett tvärkulturellt perspektiv 0033-3212, GUP 100468

  • Marita Eastmond (1996).
    Flyktingskap och livshistorier: Några reflektioner från antropologi , GUP 71528

  • Marita Eastmond; Anders Thorén (1996).
    Flyktingskapets förändringsprocesser: Somaliska flyktingar i Sverie , GUP 71527

  • Marita Eastmond (1996).
    Gemenskapens gränser: Den bosnisk-muslimska identitetens dilemma , GUP 71529

1995

  • Marita Eastmond; Bernt Bernander; Joel Charny; Claes Lindahl; Joakim Öjendal (1995).
    Facing a Complex Emergency , GUP 100497

1994

  • Marita Eastmond; Lilian Ralphsson; Birgitta Alinder (1994).
    The psycho-social impact of war. Bosnian refugee families and coping strategies 0965-7460, GUP 100511

  • Marita Eastmond (1994).
    Utfärder och Hemkomster , GUP 100464

1993

  • Marita Eastmond (1993).
    National conflict and refugees: Re-creating Chilean Identity in Exile , GUP 100467

  • Marita Eastmond (1993).
    Reconstructing Life:Chilean Women and the Dilemmas of Exile , GUP 100456

1992

  • Marita Eastmond (1992).
    Att konstruera främlingskap , GUP 100520

  • Marita Eastmond (1992).
    Hemlöshetens tidevarv: Flyktingskap och existens , GUP 100463

  • Marita Eastmond (1992).
    Krönika. Världen i Sverige: Rapport från fältet , GUP 100512

1991

  • Marita Eastmond (1991).
    Flyktingskap och bistånd.Erfarenheter från en projektformuleringsmission , GUP 100515

  • Marita Eastmond (1991).
    Vencer a la muerte, volver a la vida: Symbolic representations of political repression and exile , GUP 100516

1990

  • Marita Eastmond (1990).
    Defending life: Chilean refugees in exile 0965-7460, GUP 100495

1988

  • Marita Eastmond (1988).
    The Politics of Death: Rituals of protest in a Chilean exile community , GUP 100492

1985

  • Marita Eastmond (1985).
    Kulturmöte i skolan , GUP 100486

1984

  • Marita Eastmond (1984).
    Leva för att arbeta eller Arbeta för att leva? , GUP 100483

1982

  • Marita Eastmond (1982).
    Jugoslaviska elevers yrkes- och utbildningsval. I: Nationell kulturbakgrund - Göteborgselever i nian väljer framtid , GUP 100518

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