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Anna Triandafyllidou
Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to joining TorontoMet, she was based at the European University Institute where she held a Robert Schuman Chair on Global Pluralism. She is Editor of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Chair of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee, and member of the IMISCOE Board of Directors. An internationally recognized sociologist and migration policy expert, Anna’s 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. In 2021, the University of Liège awarded Triandafyllidou a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship. Her recent authored books include What is Europe (with R. Gropas, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2022) and Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe (with E. Gemi, Routledge, 2021).
Younes Ahouga
Younes Ahouga is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva (2019). His doctoral dissertation analyses the migration management discourses and practices of the International Organisation for Migration. His current research examines the role of international organisations in the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. He (co)authored articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Critique Internationale and Revue européenne des migrations internationales.
Oreva Olakpe
Oreva Olakpe is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research addresses how communities without status (e.g. irregular migrants and cross-border minorities) in the Global South form institutional structures and make space for themselves in their society of settlement. Oreva has studied sub-Saharan African migrant businessmen with mostly expired status and African asylum seekers in China, and a cross-border minority at the Cameroon-Nigeria border. She received a PhD in Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London.
Recent Blog Entries
In the context of return migration from Greece, whether considered through the legal and institutional framework or the research on the ‘Return Migration Infrastructures’, the issue of regularity versus irregularity is inescapable. Irregularity has become a central concept in dominant public discourses about migration, often defined in opposition to regularity—or, more specifically, legality. By equating irregularity with illegality, this binary logic is used to stigmatize migrants as ‘threats’ to national and EU social and political structures. This oversimplification, however, neglects the complex ways in which irregularity is not simply a status but a process shaped by…