Courses:

• GW-6: Gender and Migration (Graduate Program, MA in Women and Gender)
• KA-101: History of Social Anthropology (Undergraduate Program, Compulsory Course)
• KA-119: Immigration and Racism: Anthropological Perspectives (Undergraduate Program, Elective Course)
• PA/S-022: Immigration and Migrant Populations (Undergraduate Program, Elective Course)

Biography

Pinelopi Topali was elected lecturer in 2010 at the University of the Aegean, Department of Social Anthropology and History. She has studied Mathematics (BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), applied urban anthropology (MA, City University of New York) and social anthropology (Ph.D., University of the Aegean). As a post-doctoral researcher she has participated in the project “Pythagoras” (EPEAEK II) “Gender, Domestic Work and Ethic Identity: The Cross-Cultural Construction of Domestic Space in Greece” (Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean). She has also participated as a basic researcher at a research program of the European Integration Fund For the Third Country Nationals  “Research for the investigation of the profile of third country nationals legally living in Greece, working as domestic workers and a comparative study of models of institutional management in E.U. member- states”. Her research interests focus on anthropology of immigration, anthropology of religion and work, Philippine and Greek ethnography and racism.  She has published two books on immigration, domestic work, and domestic space: Κόσμοι της οικιακής εργασίας: Φύλο, μετανάστευση και πολιτισμικοί μετασχηματισμοί στην Αθήνα του πρώιμου 21ου αιώνα, 2008 with with E. Papataxiarchis and A. Athanasopoulou (Worlds of Domestic Work: Gender, Immigration and Cultural Transformations in early 21st century Athens. Athens: Alexandria) and Σιωπηρές σχέσεις, διαπολιτισμικές επαφές: Η περίπτωση των Φιλιππινέζων οικιακών βοηθών στην Αθήνα, 2008 (Silent Relations, Inter-cultural Contacts: The Case of Filipina Domestic Workers in Greece. Athens: Alexandria). She belongs to the professional organizations European Association of Social Anthropologists, American Anthropological Society, and is a member of the international scientific network EastBordNet.

Research Projects

2012. Research in the EU funded program 2.2./2010 of the European Integration Fund for Third Country Nationals which is conducted under the Priority 2: “Development of indicators and methodologies designed for the evaluation of progress, the adaptation of policies and measures as well as the facilitation of the coordination of comparative learning”. The program is titled “Research for the investigation of the profile of third country nationals legally living in Greece, working as domestic workers and a comparative study of models of institutional management in E.U. member- states” and is financed by the European Integration Fund and the Greek Government. The leading partner is the University of the Aegean (School of Social Sciences, Department of Social Anthropology and History), joined by TNS-ICAP, a public surveys company, and the Cultural House of Albanian Immigrants in Greece, a non-profit organization.

2004-2008. Post doctorate researcher in the EU funded program EPEAEK II-“Pythagoras” titled: “Gender, Domestic Work and Ethnic Identity: The Inter-cultural Construction of Domestic Space in Greece” (Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean). This research program focused on the construction of domestic space in contemporary Greece through the study of relationships of Filipina, Greek and Albanian domestic workers with Greek employers in the context of live-in and part-time domestic work. It was funded by the European Union (75%) and the Ministry of Education (25%).

Selected publications

Books

• 2008.  Silent Relations, Inter-cultural Contacts: The Case of Filipina Domestic Workers in Greece. Athens: Alexandria [in Greek]
• 2008  (with E. Papataxiarchis and A. Athanasopoulou) Worlds of Domestic Work: Gender, Immigration and Cultural Transformations in early 21st century Athens. Athens: Alexandria [in Greek].

Articles in collective volumes and journals

• 2013. “Constructions of Difference in Modern Greece: Filipina Immigrants and Alterity Suspended”. In E. Papataxiarchis (ed.) Revisiting the Political. Athens: Alexandria (forthcoming) [in Greek]
• 2012 “Refugees in Western Societies and Greece: Representations, Body and the Management of Suffering”. In S. Trubeta (ed.)  Refugee and Immigrant Issues: Essays on Frontiers. Athens: Papazisis [in Greek]
• 2012 “Institutional Management of Domestic Work and Immigration: A Comparative Study in E.U. Member States”. In C. Bellas (ed.) Social Integration of Migrant Domestic Workers and the Greek Economic Crisis. Athens: University of the Aegean [in Greek]
• 2012 “Transnational Practices, Forms of Integration”. In C. Bellas (ed.) Social Integration of Migrant Domestic Workers and the Greek Economic Crisis. Athens: University of the Aegean [in Greek]
• 2010 “Greek and Filipina Domestic Workers in Contemporary Greece: The Reproduction and Transformations of Domestic Work, Domestic Relationships and Female Identities”. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 18(2): 311-340
• 2010 “Filipina Immigrants. Paid Domestic Work, Gender and Representations of the ‘Other’”. In V. Vamvakas and P. Panayiotopoulos (eds.) Greece in the 1980s. Social, Political and Cultural Dictionary. Athens: Perasma. [in Greek]
• 2009  “Constructions of Care in Modern Greece: Gendered Relationships between Filipina Domestic Workers and Greek Employers”. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 15 (1): 94-124.
• 2007 “Towards an Interpretive Approach of Paid Domestic Work”. In K. Zoras and F. Bandimaroudis (eds.) Social Sciences Today. 1st Conference of the School of Social Sciences. Mytilene. 2006. Athens-Komotini: Sakoulas. [in Greek]
• 2006 “Incompatible Relationships: Filipina Domestic Workers and Greek Employers in Athens”. In E. Papataxiarchis (ed.) Adventures of Alterity: The Production of Cultural Difference in Contemporary Greece. Athens: Alexandria. [in Greek]
• 2005 “Aspects of Filipino Religiosity in Athens” The Bodily Performance of Silence”. In M. Michailidou and A. Chalkia (eds.) The Production of Social Body. Athens: Katarti and Dini, Feminist Journal. [in Greek]
• 2005 “There a Hero, here a Filipina: Female Immigration and Labour in the Media Discourse”. Synchrona Themata 88: 72-83 [in Greek].