We understand emergent quantum mechanics in the sense that quantum mechanics describes processes of physical emergence relating an assumed sub-quantum physics to macroscopic boundary conditions. The latter can be shown to entail top-down causation, in addition to usual bottom-up scenarios. With this example it is demonstrated that definitions of "realism" in the literature are simply too restrictive. A prevailing manner to define realism in quantum mechanics is in terms of pre-determination independent of the measurement. With our counter-example, which actually is ubiquitous in emergent, or self-organizing, systems, we argue for realism without pre-determination.We refer to earlier results of our group showing how the guiding equation of the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation can be derived from a theory with classical ingredients only. Essentially, this corresponds to a "quantum mechanics without wave functions" in ordinary 3-space, albeit with nonlocal correlations. This, then, leads to the central question of how to deal with the nonlocality problem in a relativistic setting. We here show that a basic argument discussing the allegedly paradox time ordering of events in EPR-type two-particle experiments falls short of taking into account the contextuality of the experimental setup. Consequently, we then discuss under which circumstances (i.e. physical premises) superluminal information transfer (but not signaling) may be compatible with a Lorentzinvariant theory. Finally, we argue that the impossibility of superluminal signaling -despite the presence of superluminal information transfer -is not the result of some sort of conspiracy (á la "Nature likes to hide"), but the consequence of the impossibility to exactly reproduce in repeated experimental runs a state's preparation, or of the no-cloning theorem, respectively.The term "Emergent Quantum Mechanics" (EmQM) has been used in the literature for several years by now, albeit with different meanings regarding the word "emergence". As a major option, the term refers to the possibility that quantum theory might be a (very good) approximation to some "deeper level theory". To some, though, EmQM just stands for quantum theory as a special case for a particular set of parameters of a more encompassing theory. The term would thus refer to the emergence of a theory. However, the meaning of EmQM may also be more specific in that it refers to physical emergence, i.e., to the modeling of quantum systems as emergent systems. It is the latter option that our group has dealt with throughout the last couple of years.There is, however, a communication problem in getting the relevant ideas across, mainly because the quantum physics and the self-organization/emergence communities, respectively, hardly communicate with each other. Specifically, the problem of accepting physical emergence as a possibility within the quantum physics community seems to be the rather exotic looking theme of top-down causation (next to bottom-up causation). Despite the fact that there are numerous exampl...