Wil Burghoorn is senior lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, Göteborg University and researcher at the Centre for Asian Studies, at the same university. She has done research on gender, development related issues, forms of relatedness and expressions of belonging, in Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. She has coordinated several interdisciplinary research projects, involving institutes in developing and developed countries. Currently she is co-coordinating a research project on Rural Families in Transitional Vietnam.