Sandra Gruner-Domic Editor

Tsypylma Darieva is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and associate member of Collaborative Research Centre at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Her research interests are focused on the anthropology of migration and transnationalism, diasporic cosmopolitanism, memory and urban postsocialism in Europe and Central Eurasia (Germany, Armenia and Azerbaijan).

Nina Glick Schiller is the Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Glick Schiller’s research and writings explore a comparative and historical perspective on migration, cities, transnational processes, diasporic connection, long distance nationalism, methodological nationalism and diasporic cosmopolitanisms. She has worked in cities in Haiti, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Sandra Gruner-Domic, PhD, is currently Lecturer for Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, USA. Her research interests are migration and gender, race and ethnic relations in urban spaces and the process of representation and identity in transnational context. She is currently conducting comparative research on Latin American migrants in Los Angeles and Berlin.