The research team

The project managers

Andrea Abraham

Prof. Andrea Abraham is a social anthropologist lecturing in social work at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Institute for Childhood, Youth and Family. Her research focuses on pivotal life transitions such as adoption, placement in care or the death of a child and their intergenerational impacts.

andrea.abraham@bfh.ch

Sabine Bitter

Sabine Bitter Lic. phil. I works as a journalist for Radio SRF 2 Kultur and as a freelance historian specialising in intercountry adoption

bitttersab@gmail.com

Rita Kesselring

Prof. Rita Kesselring is a social anthropologist and associate professor for urban studies at the University of St Gallen. Her work focuses on global asymmetrical interdependencies in southern Africa and Switzerland.

rita.kesselring@unisg.ch

The project team

Nadine Gautschi

Dr Nadine Gautschi is a sociologist at the Institute for Social and Cultural Diversity at the Bern University of Applied Sciences School of Social Work. A key focus of her work is the examination of silence and the discussion of taboo topics within family and societal contexts.

nadine.gautschi@bfh.ch

Asha Narayan Iyer

Asha Narayan Iyer has 30 years’ experience as an independent consultant in the non-profit sector specialising in children’s rights, with a focus on child labour and child protection.

Claudia Herold

Claudia Herold, M.A. (German Studies, Slavic Studies and History), is project assistant to Prof Rita Kesselring at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St Gallen.

Special thanks to

Josephine Anthony, Cora Bachmann, Sandra Bärnreuther, Marlis Betschart, Urs Bräm, Alessia Cerantola, Aroup Chatterjee, Gauri Deekonda, Kim De Solda, Christoph Dieffenbacher, Jovita dos Santos Pinto, Sharmila Egger, Francesca Falk, Celin Fässler, Martin Girsberger, Beat Gnädinger, Pien Bos, Nik Gugger, Paula Gund, Ruth Haener, Lisa Helmick, Otto Hostettler, Anja Huber, Karin Huser, Sarah Ineichen, Surangika Jayarathne, Guido Koller, Lisa Komp, Sandro Körber, Stephan Krähenbühl, Damaris Lüthi, Dipika Maharaj Singh, Sally Marg, Andrea Mason, Karin Meierhofer, Liliane Minder, Kamal Musale, Markus Näpflin, Vibhuti Patel, Maren Peters, Sandra Pletscher, Johannes Quack, Sabrina Ricklin, Iris Ritzmann, Lena Robra, Monika Roth, Verena Rothenbühler, André Salathé, Viveek Sharma, Anna Sommer, Soni Soni, Ratna Stoll, Bernhard Sturm, Paul Vezin, Andrea Wahl, André Woodtli and Vrushali Zindel.