Our Research Teams
Our research on transnational care is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, each contributing specialized expertise and distinct analytical perspectives. The team integrates knowledge from fields such as migration studies, social policy, and care research, ensuring both theoretical depth and empirical rigor.
Icelandic team
The Icelandic team consists of three anthropologists all with affiliation with the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland,led by Anna Wojtynska. Taken together, their research focus covers issues related to migration, transnationalism, multiculturalism and diversity in Iceland as well as gender relations. The team takes responsibility for WP3, that looks at the policy and support mechanisms for transnational care, including secondary data analysis.
Anna Wojtyńska, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. She graduated from the University of Warsaw and then completed her PhD studies at the University of Iceland. For nearly thirty years she has studied migrations to Iceland, particularly from Poland. Her main areas of interest are the inclusion of immigrants to the Icelandic labour market and migrants’ transnational practices. Most recently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a project focusing on migration to rural areas in Iceland. As part of the Community Co-creation project, she has explored the role of public libraries in affording for migrants’ inclusion.
Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir Unnur Dís Skaptadótir is a Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on mobility, transnationalism, migration, and questions of borders and boundaries, with particular attention to gender and nationalism. She has conducted extensive research on diverse migrant groups in Iceland, especially in relation to labour migration, family reunification, and transnational ties, using multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. She has also examined the experiences of immigrant parents of children with disabilities, as well as the position of refugees. More recently, her work has explored migration to rural areas in Iceland.
Valdís Björt Guðmundsdóttir is Researcher and part time teacher at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. She is an anthropologist by education, with a background in both social and biological anthropology. Both in her BA dissertation and Master’s thesis, she examined the intersection of Islam and feminism. The Master’s research, focused specifically on the construction of self-identity among Muslim women in Iceland. She then took a different direction and pursued doctoral studies in biological anthropology, with a focus on the human Y chromosome. Her current interests include feminism, inclusion, care, transnationalism, human evolution, multiculturalism, combining qualitative and quantitative methodology, and applied anthropology.
Icelandic team
The Icelandic team consists of three anthropologists all with affiliation with the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland,led by Anna Wojtynska. Taken together, their research focus covers issues related to migration, transnationalism, multiculturalism and diversity in Iceland as well as gender relations. The team takes responsibility for WP3, that looks at the policy and support mechanisms for transnational care, including secondary data analysis.
Anna Wojtyńska, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. She graduated from the University of Warsaw and then completed her PhD studies at the University of Iceland. For nearly thirty years she has studied migrations to Iceland, particularly from Poland. Her main areas of interest are the inclusion of immigrants to the Icelandic labour market and migrants’ transnational practices. Most recently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a project focusing on migration to rural areas in Iceland. As part of the Community Co-creation project, she has explored the role of public libraries in affording for migrants’ inclusion.
Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir Unnur Dís Skaptadótir is a Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on mobility, transnationalism, migration, and questions of borders and boundaries, with particular attention to gender and nationalism. She has conducted extensive research on diverse migrant groups in Iceland, especially in relation to labour migration, family reunification, and transnational ties, using multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. She has also examined the experiences of immigrant parents of children with disabilities, as well as the position of refugees. More recently, her work has explored migration to rural areas in Iceland.
Valdís Björt Guðmundsdóttir is Researcher and part time teacher at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. She is an anthropologist by education, with a background in both social and biological anthropology. Both in her BA dissertation and Master’s thesis, she examined the intersection of Islam and feminism. The Master’s research, focused specifically on the construction of self-identity among Muslim women in Iceland. She then took a different direction and pursued doctoral studies in biological anthropology, with a focus on the human Y chromosome. Her current interests include feminism, inclusion, care, transnationalism, human evolution, multiculturalism, combining qualitative and quantitative methodology, and applied anthropology.