Naor Ben-Yehoyada is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II. He writes on unauthorized migration, criminal justice, the aftermath of development, and transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean.

Paul Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, USA. He is author of Postcolonial France (2018) and Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation (2004). He writes on identity politics, postcoloniality, and diasporic popular culture in France and North Africa.