Meissner
Fran Meissner is Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity. Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into...See more
Fran Meissner is Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity. Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, and is Senior Research Associate at ODI. Nando is a founding editor of Migration Studies and lead editor for the Global Migration and Social Change book series. Steven Vertovec is the Founding Director, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Before that, he was Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). Steve is currently Co-Editor of the journal Global Networks and Co-Editor of the book series Global Diversities. See less
Meissner's Featured Books
Meissner book reviews
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Only the Beautiful
A compelling tale!
by Kristina, Apr 18, 2023
Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner is a touching story. It is a dual timeline novel that takes us back to 1938 when Rosie lost her parents in an accident. The sixteen-year girl is taken in by the ... Read More
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The Nature of Fragile Things
A captivating tale
by Kristina, Jun 17, 2021
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner transports readers to San Francisco, California in 1905 where Sophie Whalen has agreed to marry Martin Hocking. Sophie was living in New York after ... Read More
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As Bright as Heaven
Not what I expected
I didn't feel that the book's description was the most accurate depiction of the story that waited inside. Living in a funeral parlor and learning the work of an undertaker were huge parts of the ... Read More