Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established orders, creating transnational spaces beyond national hegemonies, creating new economies, influencing urban and communal ways of life, making inequality and precariousness visible locally and globally. Migration research as a social science does not narrow the focus to 'the migrants', but investigates the conditions for living together and shaping life between ethnicization and pluralization, discrimination and empowerment, division and participation. The Yearbook Migration and Society repeatedly turns the prism of narrative anew. The 2020/2021 edition focuses on the topic "Beyond Borders".

Hans Karl Peterlini (Dr.) is professor of general pedogy and intercultural education at the University of Klagenfurt. His research focuses on ethnic and linguistic diversity in nation-state contexts, personal and social learning in schools and society, and inclusive processes in migrant societies. Since 2020 he holds the UNESCO Chair 'Global Citizenship Education - Culture of Diversity and Peace'. Jasmin Donlic (Dr.) is a postdoctoral assistant at the department of general education and diversity conscious education at the department of educational science and educational research at the University of Klagenfurt. His research focuses on inter- and transcultural education in the context of migration and inclusion, multilingualism in schools, and adolescent identity formation in regional transnational spaces.