Lina Venturas is Professor of History and Sociology of Migration at Panteion University in Athens. She studied history and sociology in France and Belgium. Using historical and sociological approaches her current research focuses on migrations, diaspora, sending states’ policies, transnationalism and International Organizations. She has published articles and books and has edited special issues and volumes on migration, diaspora and border issues. The Committee on Hellenic Studies of Princeton University accorded her a Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University (12/2000-1/2001). She was the academic director of two research projects examining the history of Greek emigration funded by the University of Thrace and the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank and has participated in other research projects studying representations of the ethnic 'self' and the ethnic 'other' in the Greek educational system funded by the EU. She also participated in a reform act set up by the Greek Ministry of Education concerning the education of Muslim children in Thrace. She was a member of a research team studying the Social Impact of Emigration and Rural-Urban Migration in Central and Eastern Europe (Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und -gestaltung e.V. (GVG) funded by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. From 2012 to 2015 she was the principal investigator in the Research Program on Migration Management and International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources.

Her publications include:

Migration and Nation: Transformations of Collectivities and Social Positions, Athens: Association for the Study of Modern Hellenism, 1994.

Greek Migrants in Belgium, Athens: Nepheli, 1999.

“Political discourse, social sciences and migration” in X. Kontiadis, Th. Papatheodorou (eds.), The reform of migration policy, Athens, Papazisis, 2007, p. 157-168.

with Damilakou Maria, “Discourses on Latin America: The Migration-Development Nexus”, in Lina Venturas (ed.), International “Migration Management” in the early Cold War: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration”, University of Peloponnese, 2015.