Apostolos G Papadopoulos has studied sociology in Greece (B.Sc. Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences) and in the UK (M.Sc (Econ), Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science) and holds a DPhil in Geography (University of Sussex). He was employed as researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), the University of Patras and the Agricultural University of Athens. He was elected Lecturer in the University of Ioannina where he served for five years. He was elected Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography in Harokopio University, where, currently, holds the position of Professor in Rural Sociology and Geography. In the same university, he has been Director of Postgraduate Studies of the M.Sc. entitled: “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning” (2009-2011), Vice-Rector of Economic Affairs and Development (2011-2015), and Dean of the School of Environment, Geography and Applied Economics (2017-2018).
He has coordinated as project leader, while also he worked as a senior researcher in, several research projects financed by the European Commission, the Greek State and other organizations. He has published numerous papers in international journals (Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy; Agriregionieuropa; Applied Geography; Autonomie Locali e Servizi Sociali; Environment and Planning C; Europa XXI; Frontiers in Sociology; International Review of Sociology; Italian Review of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Rural Cooperation; Journal of Rural Studies; Méditerranée; Migration Letters; Sociologia Ruralis; Southeast European and Black Sea Studies), in Greek academic journals (Γεωγραφίες; Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών; Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης; Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση), collected volumes and conference proceedings. He has edited or co-edited eight collected volumes (two of them were published by Ashgate Publishers in 1999 and 2010) and co-authored one book. His research has been published in Greek, English, Italian and Portuguese.
He has been member of the Working Group on Migration coordinated by the Prime Minister Office (Greek Prime Minister Office –Official Gazette (FEK) Issue 1650/25-08-2011). He was appointed as member of the Advisory Board (2017-2020) of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), which is a European Research and Education Organization with its headquarters located in Paris; for the last two-year period (2019-2020) he was elected Chair of this scientific advisory body.
From the position of President of the Hellenic Sociological Association (HSS) he has undertaken the task to organize in Greece one of the largest social science congresses. He was the Chair of the LOC for the organization of the 13th ESA Conference Athens: “(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities”, 29 August to 1 September 2017. Consequently, he was elected member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the European Sociological Society (ESA) for two consecutive periods (2017-2019, 2019-2021) and Vice-President of External Affairs in the same organization for both periods.
Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the international peer reviewed journal Sociologia Ruralis for four years (2020-2023) and Associate Editor of the journal NEW MEDIT: Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. Moreover, he is member of the editorial board of the journals Migration Letters, Europa XXI and Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση; member of the international scientific board of the journals Border Studies, Social Studies [Studime Sociale], and Autonomie locali e servizi sociali; and member of the scientific board of the journal Social Cohesion and Development (Κοινωνική Συνοχή και Ανάπτυξη).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2803 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2821-3529 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/agpapadopoulos/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@apospapa |
| Researcher ID | N-1731-2019 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Apostolos-Papadopoulos |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Harokopio University
University, Athens, Greece
Professor -
Institute of Social Research, National Centre for Social Research
Research Institute, Athens, Greece
Managing Director -
National Centre for Social Research
Other, Athens, Greece
Director
Research
(Non-)Institutional Manifestations of Migrant Infrastructures for Refugees in Rural Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia - Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Europa XXI | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘No Man’s Land’: Reflecting on and Theorizing Migrant Labour in the Mediterranean Agriculture
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Migrations in the Mediterranean | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A qualitative exploration of immigrant’s experiences, practices and feelings about health‐care management, diet quality and food security issues, in Greece
| Authors | Athanasios Michalis, Athanasios Michalis, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Aspirations, agency and well‐being of Romanian migrants in Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia‐Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Making sense of the constellations of (im) mobility of Bangladeshi migrants in Greece
| Authors | Loukia - Maria Fratsea, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | MIGRATION LETTERS | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transformative Mobilities and Resilience Dynamics in Rural Coastal Greece in a Time of Recession
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Crisis and Post-Crisis in Rural Territories | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The social and spatial mobility strategies of migrants
| Authors | Loukia-Maria Fratsea, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial: Spatial Justice in Europe. Territoriality, Mobility and Peripherality
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Europa XXI | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Professionalization, precarity and the Greek labour market: revisiting professional sociology in the period following the financial crisis
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Review of Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rural planning and the financial crisis
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Governing migrant labour in an intensive agricultural area in Greece: Precarity, political mobilization and migrant agency in the fields of Manolada
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea, George Mavrommatis |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Rural Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reclaiming Local Food Production and the Local-Expert Knowledge Nexus in Two Wine-producing Areas in Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Naming Food After Places | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Impact of the CAP on Agriculture and Rural Areas of EU Member States
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Precarious Status of Migrant Labour in Greece: Evidence from Rural Areas
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Stavros Zografakis |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | The New Social Division | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Chapter 11 Rural Transformations and Family Farming In Contemporary Greece
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2013 |
| Book Title | Research in Rural Sociology and Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geographical heterogeneity of the relationship between childhood obesity and socio-environmental status: Empirical evidence from Athens, Greece
| Authors | Christos Chalkias, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Applied Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Immigration in Rural Greece: Analysing the Different Mobilities of Albanian Immigrants
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2012 |
| Book Title | Translocal Ruralism | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration and security threats in south-eastern Europe
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Southeast European and Black Sea Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Planning on the Edge: The Context for Planning at the Rural—Urban Fringe Nick Gallent, Johan Andersson and Marco Bianconi, 2006 London: Routledge 232 pp. US$140.00 hardback; US$56.00 paperback ISBN 978 0 4153 7571 9 hardback; 978 0 4154 0290 3 paperback
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
Dissecting Changing Rural Development Policy Networks: The Case of Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G Papadopoulos, Constantinos Liarikos |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy |
The multifunctional role of migrants in the Greek countryside: implications for the rural economy and society
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 64 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants in Rural Greece
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Ersi Zacopoulou |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Sociologia Ruralis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family Farming and Capitalist Development in Greek Agriculture: A Critical Review of the Literature
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 1997 |
| Journal Name | Sociologia Ruralis |
Book reviews: Cloke, P., Doel, M., Matless, D., Phillips, M. and Thrift, N. 1994: Writing the rural: five cultural geographies. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 258 pp. £16.95 paper. ISBN:1 85396 1973
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 1995 |
| Journal Name | Progress in Human Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The heterogeneity of Greek family farming: Emerging policy principles
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 1994 |
| Journal Name | Sociologia Ruralis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rural Depopulation in Greece: Trends, Processes, and Interpretations
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Pavlos Baltas |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Geographies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Long-Term Dynamics of Viticultural Landscape in Cyprus—Four Centuries of Expansion, Contraction and Spatial Displacement
| Authors | Evangelos Papadias, Vassilis Detsis, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Land | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fisheries Co-Management in the “Age of the Commons”: Social Capital, Conflict, and Social Challenges in the Aegean Sea
| Authors | Loukia-Maria Fratsea, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Sustainability | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrant and Refugee Impact on Well-Being in Rural Areas: Reframing Rural Development Challenges in Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reassembling the Rural: Socio‐Economic Dynamics, Inequalities and Resilience in Crisis‐Stricken Rural Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia‐Maria Fratsea, Pavlos Karanikolas, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Sociologia Ruralis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Naming Food After Places
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Year | 2016 |
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Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece
| Authors | Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Christos Chalkias, Loukia-Maria Fratsea |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | MIGRATION LETTERS | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Gaining from Rural Migrants: Migrant Employment Strategies and Socioeconomic Implications for Rural Labour Markets
| Authors | Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Costas Pappas |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Sociologia Ruralis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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