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Foteini Kalantzi, PhD (UOM, Greece), MA (University of Warwick), BA (Panteion University, Greece), BSc (University of La Verne, California)

Foteini

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: f.kalantzi@qmul.ac.uk

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Dr Foteini Kalantzi is a Research Associate at the School of Politics and International Relations, QMUL. She has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the American College of Greece, a Research Fellow at ALBA Business Graduate School/Deree, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Jean Monnet Summer School, at the International Master in Security, Intelligence & Strategic Studies, Dublin City University.

She was A.G. Leventis Research Fellow and a College Advisor at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She was also a post-doctoral fellow at Aristotle University on a Horizon project on resilience and smart cities and a research associate at the ‘Migration Diplomacy and Turkish-EU relations’ project of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership; and the convenor of the ‘International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora’ working group of British International Studies Association. Before she was a Teaching Fellow in City Unity College–University of Strasbourg, a research associate at the Hellenic Centre for European Affair and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. In the past she worked as a journalist at Apogevmatini, Modern Diplomacy, New Europe (Brussels), and Global Citizen (Dubai), as media relations consultant, and financial conferences producer.

Research

Publications

Journal Articles (selection)

Kalantzi, F. (2024) Homeland – Diaspora Nexus during crisis: Towards a transformed engagement model. International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 2, April 2025 (first published 3 June 2024)

Kalantzi, F. (2023) International Politics of Migration in Times of ‘crisis’ and Beyond the Covid Pandemic’ (with Maria Koinova, Franck Duvell, Sara de Jong, Christian Kaunert and Marianne H. Marchand). Migration Studies, Vol.11, Iss.1, pg.242-257.

Kalantzi, F. and I. Lapshyna (2020). Ukraine and Greece – two diasporas: engagement and disengagement with the homeland at times of crisis. Central and Eastern European Migration Review. Vol.9, no.2. pg. 15-33 

Kalantzi, F. (2020). The legal and socio-political context of urban sustainability: Experiences from Greece. (with K.Pouikli, D. Dihala, and E.Katsoras). Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization. Vol 95. Pg. 62-76

Books / Monographs / Chapters (selection)

Kalantzi, F. (2022) (with O. Anastasakis, A. Kamaras, M. Pratsinakis) (eds). Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan

Kalantzi, F. (2022) (with O. Anastasakis). ‘Diaspora and Party politics during crisis’ in O. Anastasakis, Kalantzi, F. Kamaras, A. Pratsinakis, M. (eds.) Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan

Kalantzi, F. (2021). ‘Reflections of national identity: Migration and the representation of the ‘Other’, in Grammenos, A. (ed.) The 1821 Revolution and Modern Greece: Dialogue on development of liberal ideas and identities. Athens: Kampyli Publishers

Kalantzi, F. (2021) ‘Diasporic responses to the pandemic: Some initial observations’ chapter in Kamaras, A. (ed). The Greek Diaspora and the homeland in the time of the pandemic. E-book, SEESOX, University of Oxford.

Kalantzi, F. (2017). The Securitisation of Migration in Greece (Monograph). University of Macedonia library and National Archive of PhD theses, Greece

Public Engagement

Conference presentations, invitations to panels, lectures (selection - 2024)

  • ‘Enhanced Greek diasporic networks: The role of technology’. MGSA 2024, Princeton University, USA, 17-20.10.24
  • ‘Homeland and Diasporic Political Engagement: The Case of Greece’. CES 2024, Lyon, 03-05.07.2024
  • The New Border Regime in the EU: Technologies, Securitisation of Migration and Ethics. BISA 2024, Birmingham 05-07.06.2024
  • ‘Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean: Diplomacy, governance and securitisation’. Invited Talk on SEESOX Workshop on the Eastern Mediterranean, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 16-17.05.2024

Interviews (Selection)

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