Marion Panizzon Editor & Author

Rahel Kunz is a lecturer at the Institute for Political and International Studies at the University of Lausanne. Recent publications include: ‘"Remittances are Beautiful"? Gender Implications of the New Global Remittances Trend’, Third World Quarterly 29:7, 1391-1411 (2008); "The Crisis of Social Reproduction in Rural Mexico: Challenging the ‘Reprivatisation of Social Reproduction Thesis’", Review of International Political Economy, Special issue on Social Reproduction (2010); and The Political Economy of Global Remittances: Gender and Governmentality, Routledge (forthcoming). Sandra Lavenex is a professor of International Relations and Global Governance, Institute of Political Science at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland and visiting professor at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus, Poland. Marion Panizzon is assistant professsor of International Economic Law at the University of Berne and World Trade Institute. She is a regular invited lecturer at the Trade Policy Center in Africa, Arusha, where she teaches on the interface of migration and trade.