- Communication and Media Research Institute
- Homelands
About me
I am Professor of Media and Migration at the Westminster School of Media and Communications of the University of Westminster , The Project Leader of the HERA/CHANSE/UKRI funded project 'The Crisis of Migration Discourse: Towards a Participatory Lexicon of Migration' and the Research Co-Lead of the University of Westminster's Diversity and Inclusion Research Community.
I hold a BSc (Hons) with Distinction in Political Science and International Studies from Panteion University (Athens, Greece) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
I am a member of the CAMRI research centre, the Homelands research group and the Westminster University Migration Network. I have also held the position of the Director of the CAMRI Doctoral Programme for a number of years, which I have worked to develop and expand.
I have worked to establish the International Association's Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Diasporas and Media Working Group, and I was appointed as its convenor from 2004 to 2015.
Teaching
I have taught the following modules: Approaches to Social and Cultural Diversity (MA); Diversity in the Media: Models, Institutions, Practices( MA) Multiculturalism and the Media (BA); Media, Time and Space (BA), Post Graduate Research Methods in Media Studies (MA); Media, Identity and Culture (BA) and Media and Globalization (BA). I am currently the Director of Studies to three doctoral students and the second supervisor to another two and I have twenty four successful PhD completions as Director of Studies.
Research
My most recent research project engages with the management of refugee populations across Europe. I am focusing on different understandings of rights, on border technologies of control, and on the politics of resistance to these. I am currently working on a Palgrave/Macmillan manuscript on the chronopolitics of Migration. For this, I am working through decolonial, racial capitalism and work on time that has developed within conceptual history anf gender studies to understand both the technologies of control of the time of the migrant as well as resistance to these.
I have published extensively on diasporic cultures and politics, migration technologies of control including space and time, and the development of biometric technologies, diasporic media and audiences and European Muslim cultures.
My monographs include Diasporic Cultures and Globalization (Shaker 2007) and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (Palgrave 2013). I have co-edited a special issue of Javnost/The Public (2002:1) on the theme 'Diasporic Communications: Transnational & Local Cross-currents' and a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies on the theme of Rethinking Multiculturalism. I have co-edited Cyberdemocracy: Technologies, Cities and Civic Networks (Routledge 1997) and a co-edited anthology The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture supported by the IAMCR and published by Wiley Blackwell (2019). My most recent publication focus on Time and the Border and biometrics and control at the borders of Europe.
I am interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas: globalization and transnational cultural flows; migration and mobility, diasporic media and cultural politics; multiculturalism (theory and policy); information and communication technologies and social/political identity formation, democracy, and everyday life, European Muslim audiences and cultures.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.