Biography

Meike Fechter joined Sussex University in 2003, having taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, before that. She completed a degree in History and German Linguistics/Literature at the University of Tuebingen, Germany (1996), an M.A. in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1997), and a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull (2002). 

Role

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

Academic Advisor Year 3

Careers Liaison Tutor

Meike has recently published outputs from a research project, funded by the ESRC, on 'Aid Workers as Mobile Professionals', in Cambodia and the UK. This includes a book entitled 'Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: the Futures and Challenges of Aidland' http://www.styluspub.com/clients/kum/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=218991 and a Special Issue of the journal Third World Quarterly on 'The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work' http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/33/8).

More information about the book is available at http://kumarianblog.blogspot.com/. The results are also available in form of a policy briefing at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/global/showcase/globalinsights.

Together with Katie Walsh, she runs a research network on 'Mobile Professionals' http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/research/current/mobileprofessionals; see also the related book, 'The new expatriates: postcolonial approaches to mobile professionals' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Expatriates-Postcolonial-Professionals/dp/toc/0415503663).

Between 1999-2000 and in 2002, Meike carried out doctoral research among corporate expatriates who are posted to developing countries. The resulting monograph, entitled 'Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Jakarta, Indonesia', analyses Euro-Americans working in Jakarta within a framework of transnationalism and globalisation.

Main Research Interests

• Mobile Professionals and Privileged Migration
• Ethnography of Aid and Aid Workers
• Migration in relation to Body/Gender/Kinship                                                      
• Regional Interest:  South East Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia)

DPhil Students           

Completed:

Simone Hary 'Kyopo- Second Generation German Koreans in Germany'

Amich Alhumami 'Witchcraft and Corruption in Indonesia'

Dorothea Mueller- 'Putting the e- into motion: German Migrants in the UK'

Current:                                                                                                          

Barbara Johnston- 'Ma'ams and Maids: Expatriate Women and Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore'  

Ole Johannes Kaland - 'The children of migrant workers in contemporary China: the rural - urban gap through the prism of education'

Kwangwoo Park- 'Southeast Asian Migrants in the 'Borderless Village', South Korea'

Wen-Ching Ting- 'Struggling in between: The internally displaced at the Thai-Burma border drop out of the world's safety net'

Katia Taela- Southern Encounters and Aid Relationships: Ethnography of Brazilian development workers in Mozambique

In the academic year 2012-2013,  Meike will be teaching the following courses:

Anthropology of the Body (Year 3 option)

Ethnographies of Aid (Year 3 option)

Anthroplogy of Childhood (MA course)

Anthropology and Ethnography (MA course)

Student Consultation

Office Hours in Teaching Block 2: Thursdays 1-2pm. Otherwise, please drop in (Arts C251) or email me for an appointment.

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2013) Mobility as enabling gender equality? The case of international aid workers. In: Migration and inequality. Routledge studies in development economics . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415686853 (hbk.) 9780203067925 (ebook)

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2012) 'Living well' while 'doing good'? (missing) debates on altruism and professionalism in aid work. Third World Quarterly, 33 (8). pp. 1475-1491. ISSN 0143-6597

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2012) The personal and the professional: aid workers' relationships and values in the development process. Third World Quarterly, 33 (8). pp. 1387-1404. ISSN 0143-6597

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2012) 'Living well' while 'doing good'? (Missing) debates on altruism and professionalism in aid work. Third World Quarterly, 33 (8). pp. 1475-1491. ISSN 0143-6597

Fechter, Anne-Meike and Walsh, Katie, eds. (2012) The new expatriates: postcolonial approaches to mobile professionals. Routledge, London; New York. ISBN 978-0415503662

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2011) Anybody at home? The inhabitants of 'Aidland'. In: Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: the Futures and Challenges of Aidland. Kumarian Press. ISBN 9781565493230

Fechter, Anne-Meike and Hindman, Heather (2011) Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Challenges and futures of Aidland. Kumarian Press, Sterling, VA. ISBN 9781565493230

Fechter, Anne-Meike and Hindman, Heather (2011) Introduction. In: Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Challenges and Futures of Aidland. Kumarian Press, Sterling, VA. ISBN 978-1-56549-324-7

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2010) Gender, empire, global capitalism: colonial and corporate expatriate wives. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (8). pp. 1279-1297. ISSN 1369-183X

Fechter, Anne-Meike and Walsh, Katie, eds. (2010) Special Issue: Examining 'Expatriate' Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 36 (8). Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , pp. 1197-1357. ISBN 1369-183X

Coles, Anne and Fechter, Anne-Meike (2007) Introduction. In: Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals. Routledge International Studies of Women & Place (8). Routledge, London; New York, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780415396004

Coles, Anne and Fechter, Anne-Meike (2007) Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals. Gender and Place series . Routledge. ISBN 9780415396004

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2007) From 'Incorporated Wives' to 'Expat Girls': a New Generation of Expatriate Women? In: Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals. Routledge, pp. 193-209.

Fechter, Meike (2007) Living in a Bubble: Expatriates' transnational spaces. In: Going First Class?: New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement. EASA series, 7 . Berghahn, New York, pp. 33-52. ISBN 9780857451514

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2007) Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia. Applied Legal Philosophy Series . Ashgate. ISBN 9780754647430

Fechter, Anne-Meike (2005) The Other stares back: Experiencing Whiteness in Jakarta. Ethnography, 6 (1). pp. 87-103. ISSN 1466-1381