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Karen Valentin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Anthropology at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. With a PhD in anthropology obtained in 2002, she has focused her research on the subdiscipline of educational anthropology from a comparative global perspective. Her thematic interests include migration and mobility, particularly education-related migration and the marketization of education. She examines public/private divides in formal education, financing dilemmas, and educational inequality. Through ethnographic research, Karen has gathered insights from fieldwork conducted in Denmark, Nepal, India, and Vietnam. Her work has involved North-South research collaborations and capacity-building projects, especially in Nepal. At Aarhus University, she has actively participated in various research projects addressing issues such as the moral economies of schooling and labor migration's impacts on healthcare boundaries in Northern South Asia. Furthermore, her contributions at international conferences and seminars enhance the academic discourse around educational processes and research methodologies in anthropology.
Danish School of Education, Aarhus University • Copenhagen, Denmark
Teaching and researching within educational anthropology with a focus on migration and inequality.
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