Elena Zambelli is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. Her research interests pivot on the commodification and regulation of sex and intimacy within and across national and racialized borders. Her publications include the research monograph Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy.

Betty de Hart is Professor of Transnational Families and Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She studies the national, European and international rules affecting transnational families, their ideologies and the impact of law on the everyday lives of transnational families, with a particular interest in the genealogy of race thinking.