Waltraud Kokot is Professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, and director of the research project DiaspoRes - Diaspora as a Resource. Christian Giordano is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Mijal Gandelsman-Trier is Lecturer at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany and Co-Director of the research project DiaspoRes - Diaspora as a Resource.