Eva (Evangelia)
Papatzani

Dr. Eva (Evangelia) Papatzani is a researcher in Migration Studies and Human Geography/Urban Studies, based in Athens, Greece. Currently, she is a Research Associate & Co-Principal Investigator at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE). She holds a PhD in Urban Studies/Urban Social Geography and Migration Studies, from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Her PhD thesis entitled “Geographies of migrant settlement and encounters with difference in urban space: negotiating social proximities and micro-segregations in Athens' neighbourhoods” has been supported by scholarships from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI - GSRT) and the National Technical University of Athens. She has extensive research experience in international research projects including, among others, the Horizon2020 research project “TRAFIG, Transnational Figurations of Displacement” (https://trafig.eu/) and the Horizon2020 research project “RESPOND - Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond” (https://www.respondmigration.com/). She has collaborated with different Universities and Research Centers in Greece such as the NTUA, the School of Spatial Planning and Development (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), the Department of Geography (University of the Aegean) and the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH). Her research interests focus on the geographies of migrant and refugee settlement, displacement, borders, mobility, migration and asylum policy, refugee reception and accommodation, urban encounters with difference, urban diversity and ethnic difference, negotiations of social proximities, interethnic relationships and micro-segregation in urban space, institutional and everyday racism, neighborhood, everyday life, housing policies, and urban transformations.