DR ANGELIKI DIMITRIADI

Course: Migration and asylum governance in South-eastern Europe

Angeliki Dimitriadi, Non-resident senior research fellow GPPi

Angeliki Dimitriadi is a political scientist with an interest in irregular migration and asylum, as well as the interplay between migratory movement and policies of deterrence and protection. She holds a PhD from Democritus University of Thrace on transit migration from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh; a master’s degree in war studies from King’s College London; and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and history from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on migration management policies at external borders, migration governance in the EU and European foreign policy on migration. Between 2021-2022 she contributed to the work of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) where she remains affiliated as non-resident senior research fellow. She was head of the migration programme (2015-2021) for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and senior research fellow where she worked on counter-smuggling, transit migration, EU-Turkey relations concerning migration, asylum processing, and migration policy in the Mediterranean. She was visiting fellow in residence (October 2015-April 2016) on migration and asylum policy at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin. Her most recent monograph, “Afghan Migration Europe: At the Margins, Looking In” (Palgrave, 2018), focuses on Afghan asylum seekers attempting to transit through Greece and Turkey. The book highlights the shortcomings of policies applied in the region and their impact on the migratory journey. 

Recent Publications

• Δημητριάδη Α & Μαλαμίδης Χ. (επιμ.). 2022. Ευρωπαϊκές αξίες και προσφυγική “κρίση”: η περίπτωση της Ελλάδας. Εκδόσεις Νήσος.
• Dimitriadi, A.  (2021). ‘Countering Smuggling of Migrants through Social Media Monitoring: Looking for a Needle in a Digital Haystack’ in Beyond Networks, Militias and Tribes: Rethinking EU Counter-Smuggling Policy and Response (Coordinated by Sanchez, G.), EUROMESCO Policy Study No19.
• Dimitriadi, A. and Kaya, A. (2021). ‘EU Turkey relations on migration: transactional partnership’ in Saatcioglu, B& Tekin, F. (2021) Turkey and the European Union: Key Dynamics and Future Scenarios, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
• Dimitriadi, A. (2020). The future of European migration and asylum policy post COVID-19. In FEPS Covid Response Paper. Brussels: Foundation for European Progressive Studies.
• Dallal S. & Dimitriadi, A. (2019) Crossing the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in Search of “Protection”, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 17:3, 261-278, DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2018.1444831
• Dimitriadi, A. (2018). Irregular Afghan migration to Europe: at the margins looking in, Palgrave.
• Dimitriadi, A. (2017). Governing irregular migration at the margins of Europe. The case of hotspots on the Greek islands, Etnografia e ricerca qualitative 1:75-96
• Dimitriadi, A. (2017). Lessons from the frontline: What can be learnt from the Greek experience, in Pastore F (ed) ‘Beyond the Migration and Asylum crisis: options and lessons for Europe’, Rome: Aspen Institute.
• Dimitriadi, A. (2017). In pursuit of asylum: Afghan migrants in Greece, European Journal of Migration and Law Special Issue, Beyond Irregular Migration Governance: Zooming in on Migrants’ Agency.
• Dimitriadi, A. (2016). The Impact of the EU-Turkey Statement on Protection and Reception: The Case of Greece, Roma, IAI.
• Dimitriadi, A. (2016). Deals without borders: EU’s foreign policy on migration, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)