Anna Triandafyllidou
Anna Triandafyllidou is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to joining TMU in August 2019, she held a Robert Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She is Editor of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Chair of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee and member of the IMISCOE Board of Directors.
Anna is an internationally recognized sociologist and migration policy expert whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the governance of migration and asylum, the management of cultural diversity, nationalism and identity issues and, overall, the contemporary challenges of migration and integration across different world regions.
Over the past 20 years, she has raised over 20 million Euro in research funds from European, international and national sources, and co-ordinated 30 international research projects on migration, asylum and integration. She has published extensively on migration, asylum, cultural diversity and integration. Her publications include more than 180 articles in refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes, six authored books and 30 that were edited and co-edited. In 2021, the University of Liège awarded her a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship.
Recent Publications
Mathurin, G., Lam, L., Al-Alaoui, S., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2025). A Fine Balance: Exploring Job Quality in Platform Work Between Migrants and Nonmigrants. (external link) International Migration Review, 0(0).
KC, Hari, and Triandafyllidou, A. (2025) Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas (external link) : What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve? International Migration Review.
Sahin-Mencutek, Z., and Triandafyllidou, A. (2024). Coerced return (external link) : formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(2), 483–500.
Triandafyllidou, A. and Monteiro, S. (2024) Migration narratives on social media (external link) : Digital racism and subversive migrant subjectivities, 29(8-5), August 2024, DOI:
Triandafyllidou, A., Bivand Erdal, M., Marchetti, S., Raghuram, P., Sahin Mencutek, Z., Salamońska, J., … Vintila, D. (2023). Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050 (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 22(1), 1–21.
Aytac, S. Parkin, A. and Triandafyllidou, A. (2024) Why Are Public Attitudes towards Immigration in Canada Becoming Increasingly Positive? Exploring the Factors Behind the Changes in Attitudes towards Immigration (1998–2021). (external link) Canadian Review of American Studies. 54(1). 50-74.