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Anna Triandafyllidou

Anna Triandafyllidou

Scientific Director, Co-Lead Citizenship and Participation Theme, Member Employment and Lifelong Learning Theme
EducationPhD, European University Institute
Areas of ExpertiseMigration governance, migrant integration, nationalism, cultural diversity, comparative approaches, qualitative methods

 

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 in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

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

Triandafyllidou, A., & Yeoh, B. S. A. (2023). Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 21(1), 1–14.

Lam, L., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2022). Road to Nowhere or to Somewhere? Migrant Pathways in Platform Work in Canada (external link) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X2210902. 

Triandafyllidou, A. (2022a). Contextualising Nationalism (external link) . Ethnicities, 22(4), 573–588. 

Triandafyllidou, A. (2022b). Temporary Migration: Category of Analysis or Category of Practice (external link) ? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(16), 3847–3859.