Experts Database

Sociologist and lawyer, professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Research interests: immigrants in the labour market, migrant entrepreneurship, educational migrations

I am an interdisciplinary scholar in social sciences delivering empirically-based original work in international labour migration. My current research investigates the globalisation of electronics firms and studies how TNCs' production and management practices are engendering novel migration flows and regimes of labour control in Central and Eastern Europe. My earlier work focused on human trafficking for sexual expoitation and its link to the reorganisation of citizenship in enlarged Europe. I explore these topics in detail in my research monograph 'Agency, Migration and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking' (Palgrave, 2010) . I have also co-edited the volume 'Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China' (ETUI, 2016) and several special issues such as 'Foreign Workers: On the Other Side of Sexual, Gendered, Political and Ethical Borders' with Organization (2019); 'Digital Labour' with Feminist Review (2019); 'Le migrazioni lavorative intra-UE: modelli, pratiche e traiettorie di mobilita dei cittadini europei' with Mondi Migranti (2016); 'Trafficking Representation' with Anti-Trafficking Review (2016); 'Revolutions' with Feminist Review (2014); and 'Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities' with Subjectivity (2009).

Apostolos Andrikopoulos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on issues of kinship and marriage, migration and citizenship, and gender and sexuality.

His book Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2023) examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe.

My career as a researcher and university professor has been marked by interdisciplinarity, an approach by which I bet to analyze the complex and hybrid sociocultural reality in which we currently live the social sciences. Birth of an initial and postgraduate training in Social and Cultural Anthropology, closely linked to social intervention. My postgraduate training was taught by teachers from the Department of Social Anthropology and Social Work of the University of Granada. After participating as a fellow in various research projects on the reality of the migrant population in schools in Andalusia, I was able to obtain a predoctoral training grant from the Department of Social Work and Social Services of the Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain) . My doctoral thesis focused on a comparison of public policies and intercultural practices in Spain and Mexico from two schools as case studies. Most of the publications, as well as the participation in congresses address this issue, receiving my doctoral research the prize of the Intercultural Chair City of Córdoba in 2013.
This commitment to interdisciplinarity leads me to participate in different networks and associations where, as in the rest of my career, my political commitment to my research interests such as: attention to minority groups; the field of migrations; a gender and human rights approach and the application of all this to social intervention and action.

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is professor of criminology at Teesside University. He has conducted research for the local authorities in Britain, the British Police, the British Ministry of Justice and the European Commission. He has published widely in the areas of illegal markets (human smuggling, human trafficking, counterfeiting etc.) as well as ethnicity, crime and justice, and in a range of international peer-reviewed journals including the European Journal of Criminology, the British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law & Social Change, Trends in Organised Crime, the European Journal on Criminal Policy & Research, the Journal of Consumer Culture, and the International Criminal Justice Review.

He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, series editor of Routledge Studies in Organised Crime, editor-in-chief of the journal Trends in Organised Crime, and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, International Journal of Cyber-Criminology, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control, Journal of Applied Security Research, International Criminology, and the British Journal of Criminology. He has acted as consultant to RAND Europe, HM Revenue and Customs, the Cabinet Office, the US Department of Commerce and other government bodies and agencies, as well as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.