Susanne Åsman
Email:
susanne@susanneasman.se
susanne.asman@globalstudies.gu.se
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Post graduate degree, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
2016
Ph D degree in Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Title of doctoral project; “Bombay going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers”
Undergraduate degree, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
2003
Degree of Master of Science in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 190 credit points (285 ECTS) Major: Social Anthropology 100 credit points (150 ECTS). Other courses included in the Master degree: International Relations 40 credit points (60 ECTS), Culture and communication in East and South East Asia 10 credit points (15 ECTS), Health in Historical and Global perspective 20 credit points (30 ECTS), Art History and Visual Studies 20 credit points, (30 ECTS).
Other courses: Religious Studies and Theology 40 credit points (60 ECTS), Department of Literature, History of ideas and Religion. University of Gothenburg.
Qualifications in teaching and higher learning, University of Gothenburg
2020
Teaching and learning in higher education, Basic course 1 (HPE 101).
2011
Course in supervising and examination.
2009
Academic writing in English.
2007
Teaching and learning in higher education, Basic course.
Between 2009- 2010, several shorter courses related to film and video production, for example; How to film your teaching/ Basic video production/ How to use video resources.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2017- 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
2007-
Lecturer. School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
Course coordinator of (and lecturer) at courses such as;
”Gender and sexuality across cultures”(Master course (in English)) 2017- 2014
”Culture and sexuality in modern Swedish society”(Erasmus course (in English)) 2017- 2015
"Trafficking…" (internet based course) Present- 2007
”Method in Social Anthropology” (Socialantropologisk metod) 2017- 2015
”Asia rising ( Det moderna Asiens framväxt) 2017- 2014
”Globalizing Asia” (Asien och globaliseringen) 2017- 2012
"Qualified work placement with a social science perspective" 2020
20120301- 20130601
Research assistant. Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
20110101- 20141231
Researcher. The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg.
20101101- 20110101
Consulting research counterpart
Cooperation between Nordic School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg, and Marta Resource Centre in Riga, Latvia.
2004-2012
Doctoral researcher (50%, funded doctoral position 2004- 2012. Disputation 2016)
Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
VISITING POSITIONS
20171001- 20191001
Visiting research fellow
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
20180101- 20181231
Visiting research fellow
Department of International Relations, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
20101001- 20101101
Academic visiting research fellow
NIAS, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
20080601- 20081231
Academic visiting research fellow
The Gender Study Program, Tribhuvan/ Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
This period also included a visit at TATA Institute of Social Science in Mumbai, India.
20080201- 20080215
Academic visiting research fellow
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. (Worked under the leadership of Professor Kathryn March)
2005- 2006
Academic visiting research affiliate
Centre for Nepali and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. (Worked under the leadership of Professor Dilli Ram Dahal)
RESEARCH GRANTS
2020
The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG).
2019
The Migration Studies Delegation, Delmi. Funding for the writing and the contribution of a chapter to the anthology “Ungas uppväxtvillkor och integration (“Adolescents upbringing and integration”) (2020) Delmi.
2017- 2020
International Postdoctoral grant for the project “Navigators of the "in-betweeen": Brokers manouvring il/legal terrains of gendered labour migration control between Nepal and the Gulf countries”. The Swedish Research Council (VR). School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
2017
Kungliga Vitterhets Akademin (KVHAA).
2014
Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minnesfond, Sweden.
2011- 2014
Grant for the multidisciplinary project (The Sahlgrenska Academy, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of
Social Sciences, Nordic School of Public Health, IT University at Chalmers)”Strengthening Health Education, Supporting Research, Monitoring Health in Nepal” and within this, the project ”Humanitarianism and the moral politics of sex trafficking and rehabilitation in Nepal”(Previously titled: “Anti-trafficking, rehabilitation, gender and health in Nepal”). The Global University, University of Gothenburg.
2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA).
2010
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS). Grant for one month visiting scholar at the
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009
Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minnesfond, Sweden.
2008
Wilhelm och Martina Lundgrens Vetenskaps fond.
2007
The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG).
2007
The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), (79 000 skr). For one semester as visiting scholar at the Department of the Gender study Program, Tribuvan/ Kathmandu University.
2005
Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minnesfond, Sweden.
2005
The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG).
2005
Göteborgs Universitets Donationsstipendie, Sweden, (7 000 skr).
2005
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), (28 000 skr).
2004
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden.
2004
Göteborgs Universitets Donationsstipendie, Sweden.
2004- 2012 (50%, funded doctoral position 2004- 2012. Disputation 2016)
Doctoral grant for the project “Bombay going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking
in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers”, the Swedish Governmental Development Agency (SIDA-SAREC), Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
OTHER ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (selected)
Book award and nomination:
2019
Margret Mead Award nomination of “Bombay Going: Nepali Migrants Sex Workers in an Anti- Trafficking Era”. Nomination conducted by Pardis Mahdavi University of Denver, Colorado and Kathryn March Cornell University, New York.
2017
ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars)
Book Prize Accolade for "Bombay going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers".
Other:
20200701-
Editor SANT’s (Sveriges Antropologförbund) blog.
Reviewer in the following academic journals: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Qualitative Research Journal, and Kritisk Etnografi.In the Open Access Textbook Global Perspectives on Gender under the SUNY OER Funder Project, Editors: Nadine Fernandez, Katie Nelson.
2013-
Reference person at the Gender Study Program, Tribhuvan/ Kathmandu University, Nepal during the project ”Strengthening Health Education, Supporting Research, Monitoring Health in Nepal” and forward.
2013
Organization of workshops related to method/ gender at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
LANGUAGES:
Swedish
English (fluent)
French (fair)
Nepali (fair)
Tamang (basic)
PUBLICATION LIST (selected)
Monographs:
Forthcoming. Humanitarianism and the moral politics of sex- trafficking and rehabilitation in Nepal. Routledge.
2018. Bombay Going: Nepali Migrant Sex Workers in an Anti-Trafficking Era.Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington.
2016. Bombay going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers.Gothenburg University.
Anthologies:
2020 (Forthcoming) ”Ungdomars uppväxtvillkor i en miljö med ryktesspridning och hedersrelaterade normer” (“Adolescents upbringing in an environment with rumour communication and honour related norms”) in Eds.Asplund, A, Thalberg, S.Ungas uppväxtvillkor och integration (Adolescents upbringing and integration). Delegationen för migrationsstudier, Delmi (The Migration Studies Delegation, Delmi).
Peer reviewed articles:
(Forthcoming) “Participant engagement, social critique and the quest of sex/ trafficking and rehabilitation”, in Eds. Gillette, M, Åkesson, L. Special Issue of Kritisk Etnografi Theme: Ethnography in Applied Settings in Scandinavia.
(Forthcoming) “Facilitators or restrictors? Intermediaries navigating the il/legal trajectories of gendered labour migration control between Nepal and the United Arab Emirate” Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies.
(Forthcoming) “Intermediaries, the handling of uncertainty and the quest for responsibility in the labor recruitment process”.Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies.
(Forthcoming) “Morality and mobility: Intermediaries, gender and labor recruitment in Nepal”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies.
2009. ”Trafficking and worries about the moral order in Nepal”Pakistan Journal of Women’s
Studies: Alam-E-Niswan (Ed. Tahera Aftab) vol. 16. no.1 June.
2009. “Trafficking and worries about the moral order in Nepal”Nias Insights
Other academic works (selected):
Papers, conference papers, reviewed:
“Gender, migration and citizenship rights: Brokers navigating the gendered labor migration control between Nepal and the Gulf countries” at the Society for Applied Anthropology 80th Annual Meeting, March 17-21, 2020, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
“Gendered labor migration control: intermediaries navigating il/legal trajectories between Nepal and the United Arab Emirates”, October 23, 2019, at Stockholm University, Sweden.
”Ungdomars uppväxtvillkor och integration i en miljö med rykteskommunikation och
hedersrelaterade normer i Göteborg” (”Adolescents upbringing and integration in an environment with rumour communication and honour related norms in Gothenburg”), October 18, 2019, at the Swedish government office the Migration Studies Delegation, Delmi, Stockholm, Sweden.
“Gendered labor migration control: intermediaries navigating il/legal trajectories between Nepal and the United Arab Emirates”, September 9, 2019, at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
““We are heroes!”: Brokers in the migration industry handling, challenging and resisting il/legal gendered labour migration control between Nepal and the Gulf countries”, at the 117th AAA Annual Meeting, November 14- November 18, 2018, San Jose California, USA.
“Nepali migrant sex workers return home from the red- light district in India in an era of anti-trafficking” at the 116th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual meeting November 29-December3, 2017, Washington DC, USA.
“Anti-trafficking and Nepali migrant sex workers everyday lived lives in Mumbai’s red- light district in India” at ICAS 10, Chiang Mai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Thailand 20-23 July, 2017.
“Nepali migrant sex workers return and integration to their original village in an era of anti-trafficking” at Circuits of labor, obligation, and debt: International labor migrants, their families, and the “migration industry’' in Nepal. University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology 13-14 March, 2017.
“Anti-trafficking and Nepali migrant sex workers return home from the red light district in India” at the conference arranged by COST Action Proposal, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29-31 March, 2017.
““Outside” and “inside” perspectives and the dynamics in the knowledge production of sex trafficking in Nepal” at the 115thAAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual meeting November 16-20, 2016, Minneapolis, USA.
“Post- trafficking, gender, rehabilitation and body politics in Nepal” at the joint international
conference in Tarragona, Spain, July 12th-14th, 2013, arranged by EASA (European
Association of Social Anthropologists) Medical Anthropology Network, AAA (American
Anthropological Association) Society for Medical Anthropology and Universitat Rovira i
Virgili, Spain.
”Imaginaries of place, transnational space and migrant women: Nepali women in Mumbai’s red light district and their return” at AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA November 17-21, 2010.
”Nepali women in Mumbais red light district; transnational social ties and return practices” at ICAS, the International Convention of Asia Scholars conference in Daejeon, South Korea, 6-9 August 2009.
"Gender, Agency and Changes in Women's Migration in Time and Space", International
Convention of Asia Scholars at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
2-5 August 2007.
"Gendered Modernity, Positioning and Local Social Memory of Changes in Women's
Migration" Second Gendering Asia Network Conference, Centre for Asian Studies, Akureyri,
Iceland, 1-3 June 2007.
"Circular Migratory Flows of Women: Local Social Memory of Changes in Women's
Migration in Time and Space", SASON conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 11-13 December
2006.