People - Contesting Migration

Olga Demetriou

Durham University

Olga Demetriou is Professor in Political Anthropology at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. She is the author of Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject and Capricious Borders and co-editor of The Political Materialities of Borders. She is the PI of Contesting Migration and Co-PI of MedReceptions.

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Antonis Ellinas

University of Cyprus

Antonis A. Ellinas is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Organizing against Democracy and The Media and the Far Right and co-author of The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy. He is the PI of MedReceptions and Co-PI of Contesting Migration.

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Maria Kenti Kranidioti

University of Cyprus

Maria Kenti-Kranidioti is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Cyprus and Evros for the MedReceptions project and is currently working on the Contesting Migration project focusing on Chios and Evros. Further research interests include the state, materiality, authenticity, history, and memory.

Theodoros Kouros

University of Cyprus

Theodoros Kouros is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and a social anthropologist. He holds a PhD from the University of Cyprus, a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Greek Society and Culture from the University of Ioannina and a BA in Sociology from the University of…

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Janina Pescinski

Durham University

Janina Pescinski is a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Contesting Migration” in the School of Government and International Affairs. She is also an Early Career Fellow at University College. Her research considers the pro- and anti-migrant political contestations taking place in refugee reception sites, undertaking fieldwork in Lampedusa and Trieste,…

Bernardo López Marín

Durham University

Bernardo López Marín is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University UK who is currently working on the project ‘Contesting Migration’. Bernardo has been researching on topics of migration for over a decade, focusing on social and political anthropology. He received a PhD from La Trobe University Australia, which produced…

Demetris Comodromos

University of Cyprus

Demetris Comodromos is Research Assistant in Politics at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He is currently working at the project ‘Contesting Migration’ as a research officer. His main duties include data collection, data coding, fieldwork and website management. He holds a Bachelor’s degree…

Efi Savvides

Efi Savvides is an art consultant for Contesting Migration and was previously artist in residence at the University of Cyprus with MedReceptions. Efi is working on a series of artistic films in selected project locations, focusing on the experience of refugee reception and activism there. She is a visual artist and…

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