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Anna Triandafyllidou

Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou

Professor & Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration
EducationBA (Panteion University, Athens, Greece), PhD (European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Social and Political Sciences)
OfficeTEC-205
Phone416-979-5000 x544446

Migration is as much about the people who move as it is about the people who stay, and about the lived experiences of migrants, communities at origin and destination, and the transnational spaces in-between.

Anna Triandafyllidou

Areas of Expertise

migration governance; migrant integration; nationalism; cultural diversity; comparative approaches; qualitative methods

Research

Dr. Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, at Toronto Metropolitan University, and is the Founding Director of TMU’s newly launched Global Migration Institute. She is also the Scientific Director of a $98.4 mln multi-University and multi-partner Program entitled Bridging Divides funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Anna chairs the Metropolis International Migration Network (external link, opens in new window)  and is Editor of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. (external link, opens in new window)  In 2021, the University of Liège awarded Triandafyllidou a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship. Anna has published widely in the field of migration governance, migration and national identity, and migrant integration in comparative perspectives. She participated at the OECD Network of International Migration Experts from 2010 to 2018 and has provided expert opinions for the House of Commons, Senate of Canada, Immigration Refuges and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the European Parliament and the European Commission, among others.

Websites

Graduate Program Membership

Available for supervision

Community & Professional Service

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Triandafyllidou, A. 2025. De-centring migration governance: the role of narratives. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(18): 4579–4597.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2025. Imagining the Nation in the 21st century? (external link, opens in new window)  Nations and Nationalism, published online on 25 May 2025.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2025. Migration, Advanced Digital Technologies, and the Future of Work. (external link, opens in new window)  International Migration Review 60(1): 5-21. 

KC, Hari, and Triandafyllidou, A. 2025. Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve? (external link, opens in new window)  International Migration Review 60(1): 71-92.

Mathurin, G., L. Lam, S. Al-Alaoui and A. Triandafyllidou. 2025. A Fine Balance: Exploring Job Quality in Platform Work Between Migrants and Nonmigrants. (external link, opens in new window)  International Migration Review 60(1): 139-157. 

Dreher, N. and A. Triandafyllidou. 2025. Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(19): 4801–4820.

Sahin-Mencutek, Z. and A. Triandafyllidou. 2024. Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(2): 483–500.         

Triandafyllidou, A. and S. Monteiro, S. 2024. Migration narratives on social media: Digital racism and subversive migrant subjectivities. (external link, opens in new window)  First Monday 29(8).

Triandafyllidou, A., M. Bivand Erdal, S. Marchetti, P. Raghuram, Z. Sahin Mencutek, J. Salamońska, … D. Vintila. 2023. Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050 (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 22(1): 1–21.

Guidi, C., Kuschminder, K. and A. Triandafyllidou. 2023 Extreme Hardship, Care Ethics and Humanitarian Protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy. (external link, opens in new window)  Mediterranean Politics 30(2): 247–271.

Olakpe, O. and A. Triandafyllidou. 2023. Migrations Between Africa and China: A De-centred Approach. (external link, opens in new window)  African Human Mobility Review 9(2): 5-12.

Triandafyllidou, A. and B.S. Yeoh. 2023. Sustainability and resilience in migration governance for a post-pandemic world. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 21(1): 1-14.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2023. Pandemic nationalisms. (external link, opens in new window)  Ethnicities.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2022. Temporary migration: category of analysis or category of practice? (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(16): 3847-3859.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2022. Contextualising Nationalism. (external link, opens in new window)  Ethnicities 22(4): 573-588.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2022. The Global Governance of Migration: Towards a ‘Messy’ Approach. (external link, opens in new window)  International Migration 60(4): 19-27.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2022. Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View. (external link)  Geopolitics 27(3): 811-825; published online 28 October 2020.

Triandafyllidou, A. 2020.  Nationalism in the 21st Century: Neo-Tribal or Plural? (external link, opens in new window)  Nations and Nationalism 26(4): 792-806.

Recent Authored Books

Magazzini, T., M. Eleftheriadou and A. Triandafyllidou. 2024. A Southern European Exceptionalism? The (non-)radicalisation of Muslims in Greece, Italy and Spain (external link, opens in new window)  (open access). Palgrave Pivot.

Triandafyllidou, A. and R. Gropas. 2022. What is Europe? 2nd ed. (external link, opens in new window)  (open access).  London: Routledge.  

Gemi, E. and A. Triandafyllidou. 2021. Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe: Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece. (external link, opens in new window)  London UK: Routledge.

Selected Edited Volumes

Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.). 2024. Handbook of Migration and Globalisation (external link, opens in new window)  (2nd ed). Edward Elgar Publishing. (1st Ed, 2018).

Kumar, A. and A. Triandafyllidou (eds.). 2023. Migration and identity through creative writing: StOries – Strangers to ourselves. (external link, opens in new window)  Springer Nature IMISCOE series.

Isaakyan, I., A. Triandafyllidou and S. Baglioni (eds.). 2023. Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand: A Biographical Perspective. (external link, opens in new window)  Cham (Switzerland): Springer Nature.

Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.). 2022. The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (2nd ed). (external link, opens in new window)  London, UK: Routledge.

Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.). 2022. Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception. (external link, opens in new window)  Cham (Switzerland): Springer. 

Triandafyllidou, A. and T. Magazzini (eds.). 2020. Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. (external link, opens in new window)  London, UK: Routledge.