Monika Mokre (PD Dr.), born in 1963, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (�AW). The political scientist did her doctorate at Universit�t Wien and her habilitation at Universit�t Innsbruck. She teaches at various universities. Her research focuses on asylum and migration, democracy and the political public sphere, cultural politics, and gender studies. Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (�AW). She did her doctorate at Universit�t Wien. Her research fields are political and historical anthropology, diasporas and transnational communities, memory studies and art-based research. Her regional focus is on Kurdish communities in the Middle East and in Diaspora.