Anna Amelina is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research focuses on social inequality and migration, transnationalization of gender regimes and methodology of cross-border studies. Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational, Development and Migration Studies in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His main fields of interest are transnational studies, international migration, social policy and citizenship. Devrimsel D. Nergiz is a Doctoral Fellow in History and Sociology at Bielefeld Graduate School, Germany. Her primary research area is the political participation of migrants under the rubric of migration studies.

• 1. De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies: key concepts of transnational studies in migration Anna Amelina and Thomas Faist 2. A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies David FitzGerald 3. National numbers for transnational relations? Challenges of integrating quantitative methods into research on transnational labour market relations Kenneth Horvath 4. Following the dead beyond the ‘nation’: a map for transnational Alevi funerary routes from Europe to Turkey Besim Can Zirh 5. How to ‘catch’ floating populations? Research and the fixing of migration in space and time Bruno Meeus 6. Moving ethnography online: researching Brazilian migrants’ online togetherness Mieke Schrooten 7. Transnational dynamics in researching migrants: self-reflexivity and boundary-drawing in fieldwork Kyoko Shinozaki

Anna Amelina is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research focuses on social inequality and migration, transnationalization of gender regimes and methodology of cross-border studies. Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational, Development and Migration Studies in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His main fields of interest are transnational studies, international migration, social policy and citizenship. Devrimsel D. Nergiz is a Doctoral Fellow in History and Sociology at Bielefeld Graduate School, Germany. Her primary research area is the political participation of migrants under the rubric of migration studies.

• 1. De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies: key concepts of transnational studies in migration Anna Amelina and Thomas Faist 2. A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies David FitzGerald 3. National numbers for transnational relations? Challenges of integrating quantitative methods into research on transnational labour market relations Kenneth Horvath 4. Following the dead beyond the ‘nation’: a map for transnational Alevi funerary routes from Europe to Turkey Besim Can Zirh 5. How to ‘catch’ floating populations? Research and the fixing of migration in space and time Bruno Meeus 6. Moving ethnography online: researching Brazilian migrants’ online togetherness Mieke Schrooten 7. Transnational dynamics in researching migrants: self-reflexivity and boundary-drawing in fieldwork Kyoko Shinozaki