To celebrate the start of the MDC project, we invited Prof. Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai), Prof. Andreas Fahrmeir (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Azeez Jasim Mohammed AlKarawi (Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University Baghdad), Prof. Helen Schwenken (Osnabrück University) and Dr. Christian Walburg (University of Münster) to participate in a panel discussion on migration, diaspora, and citizenship.