Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi is of Greek and Danish origin and is currently a Master’s student in Social Anthropology and Ethnography, at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the same University. This fall she is conducting her fieldwork in Georgia on how women’s emigration from Georgia affects their families, who stay behind. The focus of the fieldwork is on first how the families in Georgia are affected by the transnational relations that develop with the migrated women, and second what new roles and internal family structures evolve.  

In the spring of 2007 Margharita conducted an internship at the organization CARE Denmark in Ghana, where she worked on documenting and analyzing women’s livelihoods in relation to their access to and control over land in the northern region of the country. She has been actively involved in NGOs - has worked as a volunteer English teacher in Lima’s slum, Peru, for the Danish NGO AXIS, was for one and a half year contact person for the Latin-American group in the NGO IBIS, Aarhus, Denmark, and in the spring of 2008 she was co-organizer of Amnesty International’s Balkan Film Festival #2, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.