IORDANIS PSIMMENOS

Title/academic status: Professor

Sector: SOCIOLOGY

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Iordanis Psimmenos is Professor at the Sociology Department of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He has been Director of the Centre of Social Morphology and of Social Policy (2011-2014). He is a member of ISA and of the British Sociological Association. He studied Sociology and Social Policy at the universities of Newcastle upon Tyne (BA Hons, 1986) and Durham (PhD, 1989). His main areas of teaching, research and academic publications are in the fields of the Sociology of Work, Migration and the Labour Process. He is the editor of Sociology of Work (Papazisis, Athens) and of Social Inequalities of Modern Greece (Alexandreia, Athens), Research Monograph series, whilst he is a member of the Scientific Committee of “The World of Work” and of “Social Cohesion and Development” journals and the founding member of the Social Policy Working Papers of the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University (Gutenberg, Athens). He has published extensively and some of his earlier publications are on: the Critical theory of Work organisation (the Political Economy of Self-Management, Roskilde University, 1989), the Labour Control in Industrial organisations (Technological Developments and Labour Control, Scottish Education and Development, 1989), the European Union and Work Organisation (The EC Single Market, Utilities Policy, 1993), the Inner-City housing and employment marginalisation of migrant workers (Migration from the Balkans, Papazisis, 1995), the Greek Public Sector and Work Organisation (Globalisation and Employee Participation, Ashgate, 1997) and on the European Migration flows (Work and Migration in Europe, Athens University, 1999).
His more recent publications are on topics which include: the economic and spatial exclusion of migrants (Migrant flows from Albania to Greece in King R. et al, Macmillan, 2000), the sex-workers in Athens (the Making of Periphractic Spaces in Anthias, F. et al, Berg, 2000), the history of Migration in Greece (Migration Pathways in Triandafyllidou, A., EU Commission, Brussels, 2000, co-authored with Georgoulas, S.), Immigration Control (Immigration Control Pathways, JEMS, 2003, co-authored with Kassimati, K.), the construction of Social Identity in Europe (Modern Greece: A Profile of Strained Identity in Ichijo, A. and W. Spohn, Ashgate, 2005, co-authored with Kokossalakis, N.), the Welfare Management of Migrants (Welfare Management and Social Exclusion in Petmesidou, M. and E. Mossialos, Ashgate, 2006), Undocumented Migration (Albanian and Polish Undocumented Workers life-stories in Duvell, F., Pergamon-Macmillan, 2006, co-authored with Kassimati, K.), the Polish Migration in Europe (Polish Workers and Flexible Service Work in Triandafyllidou, A., Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, co-authored with Kassimati, K.), Domestic Work and the labour process (Domestic Work of Migrant Women and Social Protection, Papazisis, 2008, co-authored with Chr. Skamnakis), Work and Servitude (Work and Social Inequalities, Alexandreia, 2013, and Approaching Domestic Work and Servitude, Esperia – EPLO, 2014), and the edited volume on the social effects of Crisis on Domestic Migrant Workers (Unveiling Domestic Work in Times of Crisis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies – Johns Hopkins University, 2017). His latest publication includes The Migrant Labour Force (Papazisis, 2021).
He is currently undertaking a comparative mobility research on the effects of crisis upon construction and domestic migrant workers. He is directing the postgraduate seminars on: the Greek Crisis, Panteion University (with Prof. A. Dedoussopoulos) and Work and Migration, Durham University (with Prof. L. Mackie).
He is the editor of Class and Status – Journal of Critical Approaches to Social Divisions.