Prof. Dr. Edward Webster
Research Professor in the Society, Work and Development
Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He
is the author of seven books and over one hundred academic articles. He was
a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1995/
1996 and the first Ela Bhatt Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development
and Decent Work (ICDD) at Kassel University in 2009/2010.
Khayaat Fakier
Senior Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, where
she teaches and supervises students in the sociology of work and the sociology
of migration. Her work has been published in journals such as Antipode and
the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She has recently co-edited a
volume titled, Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies: Building
New Spaces, published by Routledge with Ellen Ehmke.