Dr. Olga Lafazani, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

Olga Lafazani’s research interests are focused on the intersections of migration, gender, urban space, borders, and economies. She obtained her PhD on “Transnational geographies of migration” from the Department of Geography at Harokopio University in Athens. She has participated in various research projects and her work has been published in national and international journals and books. She has taught courses on human geography, anthropology of migration, border cultures, gender, and technology at different Greek universities. She has served as the principal investigator for the project “One century, Two refugee crisis” (ELIDEK), which aims to unravel the complex histories of arrivals and departures, as well as the different refugee figures that have shaped and been shaped in the last century in Greece.

Currently, she is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University, where she is conducting research on the political economies of refugee camps (CamPEcomonies).

Selected publications

• Lafazani, O. (2021), The Significance of the Insignificant: Borders, Urban Space, Everyday Life. Antipode, 53: 1143-1160. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12703
• Lafazani, O. (2018) Homeplace Plaza: Challenging the Border between Host and Hosted. South Atlantic Quarterly 117 (4): 896–904. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-7166043
• Lafazani, O. (2018) Kρίση and Μετανάστευση in Greece: From Illegal Migrants to Refugees. Sociology Now, 52(3), 619–625. doi:10.1177/0038038518765559
• Lafazani O. (2013) A Border within a Border: The Migrants’ Squatter Settlement in Patras as a Heterotopia, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 28:1, 1-13, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751731