Ann-Christin Zuntz
Biographic Data
| ID | 158989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann-Christin Zuntz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann-Christin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuntz |
| SIGNATURE | ZUNTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2904-8839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Not) On the Map
One way of challenging hegemonic narratives about migration to Europe is to foreground aspects we do not know for certain. Representations of uncertainties point to a challenge to critical migration researchers: how does human movement exceed predictable responses to borders? This is a conceptual, but also an ethical question, as it compels us to reflect on how we can stop the knowledge we produce from being adversely co‐opted into hostile polici…
Syria’s Many Local-s
Syrian-led humanitarianism since 2011 has been explored through the lenses of mass displacement, social media, personal networks, and its integration into the international humanitarian system. Broad-stroke comparative studies have found that differential opportunities’ structures in countries in the Global North and in the Middle East explain Syrian-led civil society organizations’ varying trajectories. This article takes a narrower case study a…
The Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health Among Syrians and Syrian Refugees Working in Agriculture During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations, such as internally displaced Syrians and Syrian refugees (SSRs) in Middle Eastern host countries, through a syndemic interplay of health, social, and economic challenges. Movement restrictions disrupted their livelihoods resulting in increased food insecurity. A mixed-methods approach was used to address the research question: "What is the relationship between Food Inse…
In the Skies Over Sofia
This article shows that policy categories such as “refugees” and “migrants” fail to capture the complex reasons why people move during conflict and how they experience place(s) in displacement. Drawing on ethnographic interviews conducted in the summer of 2021, we explore the ways in which three Syrian women, whose lives have been affected by displacement in complex ways, emplace themselves in Sofia. Although policymakers consider Bulgaria a tran…
Human Routers
Syrian refugees resort to a rich ecosystem of brokers who not only facilitate border crossings but also move remittances, jobs, knowledge, wives, and more. How are refugees' circulations made possible, and by whom? Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian infrastructure of displacement and of refugee brokers as a particular infrastructural component, namely, as human r…
La situation des réfugiés syriens employés dans l'agriculture au Moyen‐Orient au début de la pandémie de Covid‐19 sous l'angle du travail et de la sécurité alimentaire
Les auteurs utilisent des données ethnographiques issues de deux enquêtes auprès de réfugiés syriens employés dans l'agriculture au Moyen‐Orient (SyrianFoodFutures et From the FIELD) pour décrire les premiers effets de la pandémie sur cette population particulière. Ils montrent que les restrictions de déplacement et la perturbation des chaînes d'approvisionnement ont compromis l'activité et la sécurité alimentaire de ces migrants, en rappelant ce…
“How to Live a Good Life”
This article provides an ethnographically informed critique of the humanitarian self-management model that informs reproductive health trainings for young urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda. It draws on interviews with 16 adolescent refugees, as well as policymakers, aid workers and health care professionals in Kampala in April 2019. We found that reproductive health education training sessions are a site of gendered learning where displaced boys …
‘In Exile, the Woman Became Everything’
This article explores the intersections of generational and gender dynamics with humanitarian governance in Jordan that cause shifts in the division of labour within displaced families. Drawing on life history interviews and focus group discussions with seventeen Syrian women in Jordan in spring 2019, we explore the monetary and non-monetary contributions of middle-aged females to the livelihoods of refugee households. Older women’s paid and unpa…
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances
Pursuing an ethnographic approach, this article explores how Syrians’ pre-war kinship-based networks have oriented livelihoods strategies for refugees in Jordan after 2011. Drawing on long-term fieldwork (2015–2017) in northern Jordan, I argue that seasonal migration was a livelihoods strategy for Syria’s rural poor long before 2011, serving as their old-age provision and contributing to rural development. Since 2011, conflict-induced displacemen…
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances
Pursuing an ethnographic approach, this article explores how Syrians’ pre-war kinship-based networks have oriented livelihoods strategies for refugees in Jordan after 2011. Drawing on long-term fieldwork (2015–2017) in northern Jordan, I argue that seasonal migration was a livelihoods strategy for Syria’s rural poor long before 2011, serving as their old-age provision and contributing to rural development. Since 2011, conflict-induced displacemen…
Human Routers
Syrian refugees resort to a rich ecosystem of brokers who not only facilitate border crossings but also move remittances, jobs, knowledge, wives, and more. How are refugees' circulations made possible, and by whom? Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian infrastructure of displacement and of refugee brokers as a particular infrastructural component, namely, as human r…
‘In Exile, the Woman Became Everything’
This article explores the intersections of generational and gender dynamics with humanitarian governance in Jordan that cause shifts in the division of labour within displaced families. Drawing on life history interviews and focus group discussions with seventeen Syrian women in Jordan in spring 2019, we explore the monetary and non-monetary contributions of middle-aged females to the livelihoods of refugee households. Older women’s paid and unpa…
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances
Pursuing an ethnographic approach, this article explores how Syrians’ pre-war kinship-based networks have oriented livelihoods strategies for refugees in Jordan after 2011. Drawing on long-term fieldwork (2015–2017) in northern Jordan, I argue that seasonal migration was a livelihoods strategy for Syria’s rural poor long before 2011, serving as their old-age provision and contributing to rural development. Since 2011, conflict-induced displacemen…
La situation des réfugiés syriens employés dans l'agriculture au Moyen‐Orient au début de la pandémie de Covid‐19 sous l'angle du travail et de la sécurité alimentaire
Les auteurs utilisent des données ethnographiques issues de deux enquêtes auprès de réfugiés syriens employés dans l'agriculture au Moyen‐Orient (SyrianFoodFutures et From the FIELD) pour décrire les premiers effets de la pandémie sur cette population particulière. Ils montrent que les restrictions de déplacement et la perturbation des chaînes d'approvisionnement ont compromis l'activité et la sécurité alimentaire de ces migrants, en rappelant ce…
“How to Live a Good Life”
This article provides an ethnographically informed critique of the humanitarian self-management model that informs reproductive health trainings for young urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda. It draws on interviews with 16 adolescent refugees, as well as policymakers, aid workers and health care professionals in Kampala in April 2019. We found that reproductive health education training sessions are a site of gendered learning where displaced boys …
In the Skies Over Sofia
This article shows that policy categories such as “refugees” and “migrants” fail to capture the complex reasons why people move during conflict and how they experience place(s) in displacement. Drawing on ethnographic interviews conducted in the summer of 2021, we explore the ways in which three Syrian women, whose lives have been affected by displacement in complex ways, emplace themselves in Sofia. Although policymakers consider Bulgaria a tran…
Human Routers
Syrian refugees resort to a rich ecosystem of brokers who not only facilitate border crossings but also move remittances, jobs, knowledge, wives, and more. How are refugees' circulations made possible, and by whom? Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian infrastructure of displacement and of refugee brokers as a particular infrastructural component, namely, as human r…
The Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health Among Syrians and Syrian Refugees Working in Agriculture During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations, such as internally displaced Syrians and Syrian refugees (SSRs) in Middle Eastern host countries, through a syndemic interplay of health, social, and economic challenges. Movement restrictions disrupted their livelihoods resulting in increased food insecurity. A mixed-methods approach was used to address the research question: "What is the relationship between Food Inse…
(Not) On the Map
One way of challenging hegemonic narratives about migration to Europe is to foreground aspects we do not know for certain. Representations of uncertainties point to a challenge to critical migration researchers: how does human movement exceed predictable responses to borders? This is a conceptual, but also an ethical question, as it compels us to reflect on how we can stop the knowledge we produce from being adversely co‐opted into hostile polici…
Syria’s Many Local-s
Syrian-led humanitarianism since 2011 has been explored through the lenses of mass displacement, social media, personal networks, and its integration into the international humanitarian system. Broad-stroke comparative studies have found that differential opportunities’ structures in countries in the Global North and in the Middle East explain Syrian-led civil society organizations’ varying trajectories. This article takes a narrower case study a…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Livelihood (3 works)