Margaret Cook Andersen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the USA. As well as having published the book, Regeneration through Empire: Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic (2015), she has written articles for a number of journals, including French Historical Studies; French Politics, Culture, and Society; the Journal of Contemporary History; French History; and the Journal of Family History.Melissa K. Byrnes is Professor of History at Southwestern University, in the USA. Her research focuses on migration, race, empire, activism, and human rights. In addition to publishing the book Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon (2023), she has written articles for journals including Cold War History, French Politics, Culture & Society, French Cultural Studies, and French History and Civilization.