Irini Siouti
Researcher
Irini Siouti is researcher
at the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women´s and Gender Studies at the
University of Frankfurt. She studied sociology with a focus on migration
studies and qualitative methods in the social sciences, especially
biographical research. Her first research project on transnational migration
resulted in her thesis: “Migration, education and biography. A biographical
analysis of transnational educational processes of Greek migrants of the
younger generation“ (2003). She worked as research assistant for the EU
project: “Ethnogeneration”, at the Institute of Social Research at the
University of Frankfurt/ Main and taught on the topic of migration and
biographical research, at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University
of Bielefeld. She is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on: “Developing
transnational social spaces through migration. The case of the second
generation in Europe and in the USA“, at the department of sociology at the
University of Frankfurt.
She is member of the section
“Biographical Research” within the German Sociological Association (DGS) and
member of the research network “Biographical Perspectives on European
Societies” in the European Sociological Association (ESA).
