Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos (ipapadopoulos@unb.br) obtained his PhD in History from Panteion University in Athens (2008). His PhD dissertation dealt with the "Greek Orthodox immigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the USA and the foreign policy of the Greek State from 1890 to 1927". He taught at the universities of Panteion, Peloponnese, Vechta and the Hellenic Open University. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Brasilia. He is member of the Brazilian Observatory of Migration and he is a coordinator at the Labor Migration Group at the European Labour History Network. His research focuses on immigration, transnationalism, migration policies and development.
His publications include:
International “Migration Management” in the early Cold War: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, University of Peloponnese, 2015, coauthor.
“Immigrants from Macedonia in the USA: From translocal to transnational subjects”, Archeiotaxio, Athens July 2009, pp. 37-54.
“Confronting the menaces from the East: the United States’ policy during the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922”, Istorika, V. 27, no. 52, Athens July 2010, pp. 51-72.
“Greek State initiatives to settle Pontic Greeks in Southeastern Europe before the Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations”, Mnimon, Athens 2013, pp. 151-176.
“Regulating human mobility through networking and outsourcing: ICEM, IOs and NGOs during the 1950s”, Journal of Migration History, 5, 2019, pp. 332-352, coauthored with Dimitris Parsanoglou.
“A evolução das políticas de asilo na Grécia: objetivos políticos internacionais e gestão de fluxos populacionais”, Ser Social, 2020.
“Land settlement and development in South America: The evolution of an idea from its inception to the early Post-war period”, coauthored with Dimitris Parsanoglou, (forthcoming).
“The Role of Nationalism Ethnicity and Class in Shaping Greek-American Identity”, in Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies - A Multidisciplinary Perspective, edited by Assaad Azzi, Xenia Chryssochoou, Bert Klandermans & Bernd Simon, London, Blackwell/Wiley, 2010, pp. 9-31.
“The uprootedness as an ethnic marker and the introduction of Asia Minor as an imaginary “topos” in Greek films”, Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: the Middle East and the Balkans Compared, European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013, pp. 335-353.
“The “Floating Homeland”: The Ship as a “Connectivity Space” in Greek Migrant and Public Discourse”, Tales of Transit Narrative Migrant Spaces in Transatlantic Perspective, 1830-1954, New Debates in American Studies series, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, pp. 45-58.
“The formation of Modern Greek Diaspora: Greek State’s policies towards Greek immigrants in the USA during the first quarter of the twentieth century”, The Nation beyond Borders, Center for the Research of Minority Groups, Vivliorama, Athens, 2013, pp. 219-252.
“Volunteers and draft dodgers among Greek immigrants in the United States of America”, Volunteers in the Balkan and European fronts during the second decade of the twentieth century, Cyprus University, Nicosia, (forthcoming).
“Collective trauma, transgenerational identity, shared memory: Public TV series dealing with the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian refugees in Greece”, in: Dirk Göttsche (ed.), Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2019, pp. 469-491.
"Colonial lifestyle and nostalgia for the Ottoman Belle Époque in Greek Heritage TV series", in: Monika Albrecht ed. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined: Envisioning New Relations to the Colonial Past, London, Routledge, 2019., pp. 153-163.
