Katerina Vasilikou
Katerina Vassilikou is Director of Research at the Academy of Athens, at the Research Centre for Greek Society. She is a graduate of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Law School of the University of Athens and of the Department of Philosophy (major in Sociology), of the University of Paris 1-PanthéonSorbonne. She continued her postgraduate studies at the University of Paris 1, during which she was a French State Scholar. She holds a doctorate in Social SciencesSociology from the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Her research interests focus on migration, the migrant family, migrant children and the health of migrants and refugees. She has participated in (European) research projects on the education of newly arrived migrant students, early childhood education and school drop-out, working conditions and quality of early childhood education services, mental health and living conditions of migrants and refugees.
Selected Publications:
Books
– Vassilikou K. (2021). Transnational family and contemporary migration. The case of domestic workers from the Balkans and Eastern Europe in Greece, Research Centre for Greek Society, Academy of Athens (in Greek).
Articles
– Argyri Ε., Vassilikou K. (2023). Inclusion of students with different sexual orientation and gender in the Greek school, Education Sciences, 37-57 (in Greek).
– Vassilikou K. (2022). Migrant domestic workers, family and status, Class and Status, Journal of Critical Approaches to Social Divisions, 1, 42-67.
– Vassilikou K. (2022). Transnationalism and family: the reality of the crisis for migrant domestic workers in Greece, Annals of the Research Centre for Greek Society, Academy of Athens, vol. 12, 299-326 (in Greek).
– Marchi M., Magarini F.M., Chiarenza A., … Vassilikou K., …, Derluyn I. (2022). Experience of discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic: the impact of public health measures and psychological distress among refugees and other migrants in Europe, BMC Public Health Journal, 2, 942, doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13370-y.
– Vassilikou K., Vertzagia D. (2022). COVID-19 και its effects in mental health and living conditions of refugees and migrants in Greece: a first assessment, Annals of the Research Centre for Greek Society, Academy of Athens, vol. 12, 407-429 (in Greek).
– Vassilikou K. (2021). Family Mobility, Migrant Networks and Domestic Work in Times of Recession, στο Th. Fouskas (ed.), Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: B. An International Handbook on Migration, Asylum, Social Integration and Exclusion, European Public Law Series/Bibliothèque de Droit Public Européen, vol. CXXV, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Athens, 701-717.
– Spiritus-Beerden E., Verelst A., Devlieger I., Primdahl N.L., …, Vassilikou K, …, Derluyn I. (2021). Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Experienced Discrimination and Daily Stressors International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 1-14.
– Vassilikou K. (2021). Migrant family condition in a transnational environment,Signum, 4-5/Β΄, Ellinoekdotiki, 47-61 (in Greek).
– Vassilikou K. (2020). Migration and Family in the Globalized World: the Greek Case, στο S. Vukadinović, I. Radulović, S. Boškov (eds), Migrations from Antiquity to the Present Days, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, 379-388.
– Vassilikou K. (2020). From the migrant to the contemporary transnational family: the role of the migrant woman and the informal work, in I. Psimmenos, The migrant workforce. Relationships, Perceptions, Actions, Papazisis ed., 223-249 (in Greek).
– Athanassopoulou A., Vassilikou K. (2018). Family and Child Policies, in Sakellaropoulos Th. et al (eds.), Social Policy, Dionikos, 321-335 (in Greek).
– Vassilikou K. (2017). Migrant children and educational support in the 2nd High School of Intercultural Education in “Ellinikon”, Annals of the Research Centre for Greek Society, Academy of Athens, vol. 10-11, 225-252 (in Greek).
– Xypolytas N., Vassilikou K., Fouskas Th. (2017). Migrant Domestic Workers: Family, Community, and Crisis, in I. Psimmenos (ed.), Unveiling Domestic Work in Times of Crisis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Special Section, Johns Hopkins University Press, 88-109.
– Vassilikou K. (2014). Children’s care and its Shortcomings in a Transnational Context, in Th. Fouskas, V. Tsevrenis (eds), Contemporary Immigration in Greece: A Sourcebook, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), 165-176.
