MATT BAKKER is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA FABIAN GEORGI is a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (Main), Germany SABINE HESS is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Folklore Studies and European Ethnology of the Ludwig-Maximilan University of Munich, Germany CLAIRE INDER practices international law in Geneva, Switzerland SARA KALM is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden BERND KASPAREK is currently writing his doctoral thesis at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany CHIARA MARCHETTI is Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy PHILIPPE POUTIGNAT is a Sociologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Research Centre Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société, URMIS, University of Nice, France GIULIA SCALETTARIS is a PhD Student in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France JOCELYNE STREIFF-FENART is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Director of the Research Unit on Migration and Society (URMIS) located both in Paris and Nice, France WILLIAM WALTERS teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada