Dr Tsypylma Darieva (PD) is a social anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, where she coordinates the research cluster "Migration and Diversity". She received her doctorate in anthropology and her German academic degree as Dr. phil. Habil at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research is focused on the anthropology of migration, diaspora and transnationalism, post-socialist urban cultures and religious plurality in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.