“…Some seem to echo Exilforschung, an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on Germans and Austrians forced into exile following the rise of Nazism and the effects of this mass emigration until today. As the contributions to this thematic issue and other works amply testify, experiences of exile and diaspora formations are not devoid of gender dimensions (see, for example, Campt & Thomas, 2008;Brinson & Hammel, 2016;Brinson et al, 2017;Féron, 2021). The notion of exile is central to our collective endeavour in several ways.…”