Gunvor Jónsson
Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development
- SOAS London, formerly IMI Oxford
Gunvor is a Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. She is also Review Editor of Migration & Society(Berghahn Journals). She is a trained anthropologist and holds a PhD from SOAS (University of London); an MA from Copenhagen; and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Gunvor specialises in migration and mobilities in Africa, and the anthropology of West Africa (Mali/Senegal, focusing on a variety of issues including gender; shuttle trade and markets in Africa; urbanisation and infrastructure; climatic and environmental change; and migration aspirations and immobility.
Recent publications
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Malian Traders in the Senegalese Capital
Book chapter
Gunvor Jónsson in N. Sigona, A. Gamlen, G. Liberatore and H. Neveu Kringelbach (eds.), (2015), Diasporas Reimagined: Spaces, practices and belonging, 92 - 95
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Non-migrant, Sedentary, Immobile, or “Left Behind”? Reflections on the Absence of Migration
Book chapter
Gunvor Jónsson in E. B. M. Abdalla, D. Barros, and M. Berthet (eds.), (2014), Spaces in Movement. New Perspectives on Migration in African Settings
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The Contribution of African Research to Migration Theory
Special journal issue
Oliver Bakewell and Gunvor Jónsson, (2013), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34 (5), 477 - 603
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Theory and the Study of Migration in Africa
Journal article
Oliver Bakewell and Gunvor Jónsson, (2013), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34 (5), 477 - 485
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Imagination and Connectedness: Consumption of Global Forms in a Malian Village
Journal article
Gunvor Jónsson , (2012), Mande Studies: The Journal of the Mande Studies Association, 12, 105 - 120