Giota Tourgeli is a Post-doctoral researcher at Panteion University in Athens. She holds a Ph.D. in Social History with a thesis entitled “Greeks in the USA, Remittances and transformations of local communities in ‘Old Greece’ (1890-1940)”. Her research interests cover different aspects of the history of migrant and refugee movements, including transnationalism, economic and forced migrants’ associationism, sending states’ policies and international organizations.