International Migration into Europe: From Subjects to Abjects

Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester, UK. She has extensively researched and written widely on southern European societies and politics for twenty years with a focus on migration, ethnic minorities, gender issues and citizenship. She is the leading coordinator of the project RAGE, 'Hate Speech and Anti-Populist Othering in Europe through the Racism, Age, Gender Looking Glass', funded by the European Commission. Gabriella is also directing the British case in another multi-country EU funded project on E-engagement and violence, as well as the Greek case in yet another project, 'Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in Seven European Democracies', funded by the EU and ESRC.