József Böröcz is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, recipient of the Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics from the University of Ghent. He has worked on the sociology of international tourism, the political economy of the collapse and aftermath of state socialism in eastern Europe, the historical sociology of informality, the European Union as a geopolitical animal, the moral geopolitics of the transformation of global inequalities, as well as “race” and other forms of violence in the European context. For more, see http://rutgers.academia.edu/jborocz