Nelly Elias, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at BGU. One of her major fields of research is media and migration, with a special focus on the role of the media in the integration process of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany. She is an author of Coming Home: Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany (SUNY, 2008), as well as of numerous peer-reviewed articles.