In view of the current reflection on the future of the European migration and asylum policy, Professor Triandafyllidou has published a Policy Paper on Europe 2020: Addressing Low Skill Labour Migration at times of Fragile Recovery (co-authored with Sabrina Marchetti) and a Policy Paper on “Disentangling the migration and asylum knot: dealing with crisis situations and avoiding detention” and contributed a chapter on Migration Policy in Southern Europe: Challenges, Constraints and Prospects in the recently released LSE report ‘A Strategy for Southern Europe’.
She is currently developing three new projects. The ITHACA project that looks into the links between migrant integration and transnational mobility. The DemandAT project that investigates trafficking in human beings. Her special focus is on trafficking in the domestic work sectors with a comparative study that involves 8 European countries. Last but not least she has coordinated an online Survey on Emigration from the Crisis Afflicted Countries, a pioneering research seeking to understand who is leaving southern Europe and Ireland, where they are going and why.
Professor Triandafyllidou recently concluded the ACCEPT PLURALISM project (funded by FP7 with 18 partners) which looked into the concept, policies and practices of non-tolerance, tolerance and acceptance of cultural and religious diversity in 15 European countries, investigating both native minorities and migrant groups. The project produced theHandbook on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, aimed at migrant and minority youth, and a Tolerance Indicators Toolkit, which presents a set of social indicators to assess and monitor the levels of tolerance in politics and school life. She recently also completed the MEDIVA and METOIKOS projects. MEDIVA, produced the MEDIVA Diversity Indicators, a useful set of indicators to assess media capacity, reflect diversity and promote migrant integration. METOIKOS produced the Circular Migration and Integration: A Short Guide for Policy Makers, which presents the project’s main findings and policy recommendations for local, regional and national policy makers on how to frame circular migration with appropriate (re-)integration policies. Professor Triandafyllidou recently finalised a study on “European integration from below” (the MOVEACT project) looking at the impact of intra EU mobility on notions of EU citizenship and European identity. Her work has also been cited in the Financial Times and in the German newspaper Die Welt.
She is also working on the wider socio-political implications of the European crisis with a special emphasis on the case of Greece. Her co-edited volume (with Ruby Gropas and Hara Kouki) on this topic The Greek Crisis and European Modernity, appeared simultaneously in English (by Palgrave, in London) and Greek (by Kritiki publishers, in Athens) in fall 2013, with contributions from established public figures and intellectuals such as Nikiforos Diamandouros, Loukas Tsoukalis and Yanis Varoufakis. She also contributed an Op-Ed on this topic (written with Edward P. Joseph) in the New York Times.