Anna Triandafyllidou is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to joining TMU in August 2019, she held a Robert Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Anna is an internationally recognized sociologist and migration policy expert whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the governance of migration and asylum, the management of cultural diversity, nationalism and identity issues and, overall, the contemporary challenges of migration and integration across different world regions.
Over the past 20 years, she has raised over 20 million Euro in research funds from European, international and national sources, and co-ordinated 30 international research projects on migration, asylum and integration. She has published extensively on migration, asylum, cultural diversity and integration. Her publications include more than 180 articles in refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes, six authored books and 30 that were edited and co-edited. In 2021, the University of Liege awarded her a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship.

BD Funded Projects

• Exploring new configurations of work and mobility - Redefining quality of work within new configurations of work and mobility (TRS2 3.2.1)
• Exploring new configurations of work and mobility - Managing occupational balance in platform and remote work (TRS2 3.2.2)
• Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalised and Digitalised World (TRS4 1.1)
• ADT in Immigration Governance - Advanced Digital Technologies and Immigration Governance in Comparative Perspectives (TRS4 2.1.4)
• The Role of ADTs in Mediating Migration Decisions and Their Impact on Expectations about Life in canada - Learning in the Wild Behaviours: Migrants Seeking Information Through Social Media (TRS4 2.3.3)

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