People

Manolis Pratsinakis

ONASSIS Research Fellow
AFFILIATION
International Relations Network
Government and Politics Network
College
St Antony's College
Office address
70 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF

Manolis Pratsinakis is the Onassis Foundation Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also Deputy Project Manager of the SEESOX Diaspora project and a research affiliate of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) at the University of  Oxford. Manolis Pratsinakis was previously a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macedonia (2015-2017), a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex (2016) and a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (2013-2015). His academic interests broadly concern the study of migration and nationalism. He has done research and published on immigrant-native relations, ethnic boundaries and categorisation, everyday nationhood, brain drain, and intra-EU mobility in the post 2008 period. Manolis has studied Geography and Sociology (with honors) and completed his PhD in 2013 in Anthropology. His MA studies were supported by a Huygens scholarship from Nuffic and his PhD research by a postgraduate IKY scholarship.

Research

Manolis's research interests include:

Citizenship, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Community, Nationalism, Refugees and migration

Manolis Pratsinakis

Publications

Journal Articles

2021

Pratsinakis, E. (2021) “Ethnic return migration, exclusion and the role of ethnic options: ‘Soviet Greek’ migrants in their ethnic homeland and the Pontic identity”, Nations and Nationalism, 27(2), pp. 497–512.

2014

Pratsinakis, M. (2014) “Resistance and Compliance in Immigrant–Native Figurations: Albanian and Soviet Greek Immigrants and Their Interaction with Greek Society”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(8), pp. 1295–1313.