Rahel Kunz

Rahel Kunz is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Political, Historical and International Studies of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her main research interests are the governance of international migration, gender issues in migration and development, gender and security sector reform, and feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial theories.

 She is currently working on a collaborative research project on gender experts and gender expertise, focusing on the context of Nepal and Liberia. Rahel Kunz has published in International Political Sociology, the Journal of European Integration, Migration Studies, the Review of International Political Economy and Third World Quarterly. She is the author of The Political Economy of Global Remittances: Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism (Routledge 2011) and has co-edited Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnership (Routledge, 2011) with S. Lavenex and M. Panizzon.

Her recent publications include: "Gender and Security Sector Reform: Gendering Differently?", International Peacekeeping, 21:5, 604-622 (2014) and "Moneymaker and Mother from Afar: the Power of Gender Myths", in: van Naerssen, T., Smith, L., Davids, T. and Marchand, M. Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South. Ashgate (2015).