--- Kira Kosnick is a professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and director of the research center »B/Orders in Motion« at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She obtained her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research, New York, and has since worked in Great Britain and Germany. Her research focuses on migration, racism and border studies as well as gender and sexuality with a particular interest in intersectional perspectives and approaches. ---