Elina Nilsson

Elina Nilsson is an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, specializing in gender studies and medical anthropology with a focus on transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand. Her work examines family, parenthood, and reproduction through Nordic and transnational perspectives.

Her core research domains include:

• Gender Studies and Embodiment
• Medical Anthropology of Reproduction
• Family and Kinship Networks
• Commercial Surrogacy Systems
• Intimate Labour Dynamics
• Postcolonial Southeast Asian Contexts

Nilsson's publications reveal consistent ethnographic analysis of Thai surrogate mothers navigating global markets and local moralities, emphasizing embodied experiences and structural inequalities in assisted reproduction. Her scholarship bridges medical anthropology with critical gender theory to dissect reproductive tourism's socioeconomic dimensions.