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Anna Salakova holds a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Maastricht University and a Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her Master’s thesis explored how official gendered discourses and policies in post-reform Vietnam shape women’s daily lives, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hanoi. Currently, she is a doctoral researcher on the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded (H2R) project, specifically within SP 3: Ethnography of Human Reproduction. Her PhD project examines altruistic gestational surrogacy in Vietnam, a practice that is legally restricted to family members. Through ethnographic fieldwork, she analyzes the decision-making processes involved in surrogacy and the experiences of participants, while exploring how this practice redefines kinship ties and sheds light on the moral economies and power dynamics at play in familial acts of care exchange.
Department of Law