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Marina de Regt received her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2003. Her PhD dissertation was based on her long-term involvement in development projects in Yemen (1991-1998). From 2007-2011 she was coordinator of the South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and since 2016 she is co-chair of the programme. Marina is also chairing LOVA, the Netherlands Association for Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology (www.lovanetwork.nl).
Research
Marina de Regt is specialized in gender, labour, migration and development in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, and in particular Yemen and Ethiopia. Her dissertation Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen was published by Syracuse University Press in 2007. In her post-doctoral research (2003-2006) she studied migrant domestic workers in Yemen, particularly Ethiopian and Somali women. In the academic year 2011/2012 Marina was research fellow that the International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin. She became Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU in August 2012. She was one of the principal researchers of the research project Time to look at girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development, and contributed to the production of the two documentary films: Young and Invisible (2007) and 2 Girls (2016). She is the project leader of the WOTRO funded project Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Early Marriages in Perspective (Sept 2017- Sept 2019).
Teaching
Marina de Regt mainly teaches undergraduate courses in the Bachelor programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In addition, she supervises Master and PhD students and regularly gives guestlectures about gender, migration and development issues, with a special focus on Yemen and Ethiopia.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Amsterdam
Jan 1998 → Dec 2002
Master, University of Amsterdam
Sep 1984 → Jun 1990
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Research Output 2007 2019
Adolescent Girls' Migration in the Global South: Transitions into Adulthood
de Regt, M. C., Grabska, K. & Del Franco, N., 2019, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development)Research output: Book / Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
Finding ways to work on Yemen: A plea for engaged Anthropology
de Regt, M. C., Nov 2018, (Unpublished) MESA Paper .Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
Finding ways to work on Yemen: A plea for engaged scholarship
de Regt, M. C., 2 Nov 2018, (Unpublished) No Country for Anthropologists: Contemporary Ethnographic Research in the Middle East.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
"Deported before experiencing the good sides of migration": Forced return from Saudi Arabia
de Regt, M. C. & Tafesse, M., 2017, Ethiopians in an Age of Migration: Scatters Lives Beyond Borders. Demissie, F. (ed.). London: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
Forging New Layers of Belonging in Post-migration Life: Cameroonian Mothers in Germany
de Regt, M. C. & Notermans, C., Dec 2017, In : Current Anthropology. 58, 5, p. 816-818 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review › Professional
Activities 2005 2018
Finding Ways to Work on Yemen: Fieldwork in Times of War and Conflict
de Regt, M. C. (Speaker)28 Nov 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Gender, Mobility and Insecurities: Engaged Anthropology in and about Yemen
de Regt, M. C. (Speaker)12 Jan 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
de Regt, M. C. (Participant)15 Nov 2018 → 18 Nov 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Africa-Asia
de Regt, M. C. (Participant)20 Sep 2018 → 22 Sep 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Decentering and Recentering Knowledge Production, Dissemination and Practice
de Regt, M. C. (Participant)8 Dec 2018 → 10 Dec 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic