Rahsaan Maxwell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work has previously appeared in Political Behavior, the International Migration Review, West European Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Dubois Review. He has edited volumes and written commission reports for think tanks and foundations in the United States and Europe. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy and the French Embassy in the United States.