Xanthi (Sandy) Petrinioti is a Greek partner on the GRABS Project. She is Professor Emerita at the Department of International and European Studies, Panteion University, Athens. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. With a background in Economics and International Relations she has done research on migration and mobility using a political economy and a feminist lens. Having lived and worked in both Greece and Canada she likes to apply insights gained from these different country models of integration and belonging for immigrants and refugees. Her current research focuses on gendering forced migration in Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean space, studying border regimes and gender-based violence, the precarization of refugee lives and how it shapes “lessened” citizenship and on practices of resistance and resilience among women asylum seekers.
