Biography
Manolis was a Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnoography (SAME) and COMPAS until 2022.
Manolis is the Deputy Project Manager of the SEESOX programme. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow and the Onassis Foundation Research Fellow at the Department of Politics & International Relations (DPIR), 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, migration decision-making, brain drain, and intra-EU mobility in the post-2008 period.
Manolis studied Geography and Sociology (with honours) and completed his PhD in Anthropology in 2013. His MA studies were supported by a Nuffic Huygens Scholarship, and his PhD research by an IKY scholarship from the Dutch and Greek states, respectively.
Selected publications
Anastasakis, O., Pratsinakis, M., Kalantzi, F., & Kamaras, A. (2022) Diaspora engagement in the shadow of the Greek economic crisis and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan.
Pratsinakis, M. (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): 497– 512.
Pratsinakis, M., King, R., Himmelstine, C.L. and Mazzilli, C. (2020) A Crisis-Driven Migration? Aspirations and Experiences of the Post-2008 South European Migrants in London. International Migration, 58(1): 15-30.
King, R. & Pratsinakis, M. (2020) Exploring the Lived Experiences of Intra-EU Mobility in an Era of Complex Economic and Political Change. International Migration, 58(1): 5-14.
Pratsinakis, M. (2019) Family‐related migration and the crisis-driven outflow from Greece. In ‘New’ Migration of Families from Greece to Europe and Canada: A ‘New’ Challenge for Education? Eds. A.J. Panagiotopoulou, L Rosen, A. Chatzidaki and C. Kirsch, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Pratsinakis, M. (2018) Established and outsider nationals: Immigrant-Native relations and the everyday politics of national belonging, Ethnicities 18(1), 3–22.
Pratsinakis, M., Hatziprokopiou, P., Labrianidis, L. & Vogiatzis, N. (2017) Living together in multi-ethnic cities: People of migrant background, their interethnic friendships and the neighbourhood. Urban Studies 38(4): 1142–1159.
Pratsinakis, M. (2017) Collective charisma, selective exclusion and national belonging: ‘false’ and ‘real’ Greeks from the former Soviet Union. In Everyday Nationhood: Theorizing, Culture, Identity and Belonging two decades after the publication of Banal Nationalism, eds M. Skey & M. Antonsich. Houndmills: Palgrave.