Andrea Corsale is Associate Professor of Geography at the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory, University of Cagliari, Italy. He received a PhD in African and Asian Studies at the University of Cagliari in 2005. His research interests include population geography, international migrations and diasporas, transnationalism, ethnic minorities, cultural and rural tourism, Jewish heritage tourism, and sustainable local development. On these topics he collaborated at several research projects funded by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of University, and the Regional Government of Sardinia.