Theodoros Fouskas

Lecturer, Sociologist, and Researcher in Αθήνα, Ελλάδα

Theodoros Fouskas

Lecturer, Sociologist, and Researcher in Αθήνα, Ελλάδα

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Dr. Theodoros Fouskas is a sociologist. He specializes in migration, immigrant labour and immigrant community organizations. Also in integration of third country nationals, irregular immigration, access of migrants to healthcare, political participation and trade unions in the reception societies.

He has been an Assistant Professor of sociology and migration in the Department of Professional Training of Police Officers-Executives at the Hellenic Police School of Further Education and Training (2011-2015, Greece), a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at New York College (NYC) in co-operation with the State University of New York/Empire State College (2013-2014, Greece) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Training of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (2012-2015, Greece). Moreover, he has lectured (2008-2012, Greece) in co-operation with the Department of Primary Education at the University of Patras, the Department of Social and Educational Policy at the University of Peloponnese and the Department of Sociology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

He studied Sociology (2004) at the Department of Sociology in Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece) where he completed his doctoral thesis (2010). He has been presenting papers at international and national conferences on the repercussions of precarious, low‐status/wage work on the organization and representation of immigrants, using qualitative research methods, since 2007. Moreover, he has organized many national and international conferences and workshops.

He is the author of two monographs: Nigerian Immigrants in Greece: Low-Status Work, Community, and Decollectivization (Nova Science Publishers, 2014) and Immigrant “Communities” and Work Representation: The Consequences of Low‐Status Work of Five Immigrant Groups on the Participation in Their Work Associations (Papazisi Publishers, 2012, in Greek), he is co-editor of the collective volume: Contemporary Immigration in Greece: A Sourcebook (European Public Law Organization Publications, 2014) and author of multiple articles in international peer-reviewed journals (e.g. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, International Review of Sociology, et al).

Since 2005, he has participated as project director and researcher in various European and national research programmes for immigrants and other vulnerable groups.

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