Paul Statham is Professor of Migration and Director of Sussex Centre for Migration Research, a Centre of Excellence at the University of Sussex. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Paul is a political sociologist. He has written several collaborative books, including Contested Citizenship: immigration and cultural diversity in Europe (2005), edited volumes, and more than 80 articles in refereed journals. His current research interests are integration and assimilation perspectives; Islam and Muslim minorities in Europe; and mobilities and migration between Europe and Thailand.

Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books on immigration include From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000), Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe (co-authored with Richard Alba, 2015), and most recently, One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America (2022).