Migrant Narratives (PDF)

Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are in migration, narrative inquiry, storytelling and ethnographic practice. She has published widely on these subjects. Her current project looks at migrant storytelling.

Anastasia Christou is Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Middlesex University, UK. She is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an academic activist, a trade unionist, feminist and anti-racist. An interdisciplinary critical scholar whose work is fully immersed in the humanities, social sciences and the arts in the pursuit of a public sociology which is relevant, meaningful and transformative, she extensively researches, publishes and teaches on issues of identity, emotion, inequality, intersectionality, ethics, decolonial and feminist pedagogies, social justice and exclusions as regards gender, class, sexuality, race and ethnicity in migrant, minority, youth and ageing groups, having engaged in multi-sited, multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the US, UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland, Switzerland, while recently engaged in collaborative research in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, as well as with communities in Israel and Palestine.

Silke Meyer is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria where she also heads the Research Area 'Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts'. She researches and teaches on economic anthropology, migration and remittances as well as narrative analysis. Her publications include a monograph on The Indebted Self: Narrative Handling of Private Insolvency (2017) and an edited volume on Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change: The Future of Transnational Society (2023).

Marie Johanna Karner