Apostolos Andrikopoulos
Research Interests
Migration, kinship, cross-border marriages, sexuality, Africa, Europe.
Apostolos Andrikopoulos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on issues of kinship and marriage, migration and citizenship, and gender and sexuality.
His book Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2023) examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe.
Publications:
Monograph
2023 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Edited Special Issues
2021 Joëlle Moret, Apostolos Andrikopoulos and Janine Dahinden, “Contesting Categories: Cross-border Marriages from the Perspectives of the State, Spouses and Researchers”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (2).
2020 Apostolos Andrikopoulos and Jan Willem Duyvendak, “Transnational Migration and Kinship Dynamics”, Ethnography, 21 (3).
Virtual Issue
2022 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Transnational Kinship”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Edited Book
2023 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Joëlle Moret, and Janine Dahinden, Cross-Border Marriages: State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices. Oxford and New York: Routledge.
Journal Articles
2023 Apostolos Andrikopoulos and Rachel Spronk, “Family Matters: Same-sex Relations and Kinship Practices in Nairobi”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (4), XXX. (accepted)
2021 Joëlle Moret, Apostolos Andrikopoulos and Janine Dahinden, “Contesting Categories: Cross-border Marriages from the Perspectives of the State, Spouses and Researchers”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (2), 325-342.
2021 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Love, Money and Papers in the Affective Circuits of Cross-border Marriages: Beyond the “Sham”/“Genuine” Dichotomy”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (2), 343-360.
2020 Apostolos Andrikopoulos and Jan Willem Duyvendak, “Migration, Mobility and the Dynamics of Kinship and Marriage: New Barriers, New Assemblages”, Ethnography, 21(3), 299–318.
2017 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Hospitality and Immigration in a Greek Urban Neighbourhood: an Ethnography of Mimesis”, City & Society, 29 (2), 281-304.
Book Chapters
2023 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Becoming White?”, in O. Burlyuk and L. Rahbari (Eds.) Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 117-126.
2018 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “After Citizenship: the Process of Kinship in a Setting of Civic Inequality”, in T. Thelen and E. Alber (Eds.) Reconnecting State and Kinship. Philadelphia: Penn University Press, 220-240.
2013 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Migration, class and symbolic status among Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece”, in R.L. McKenzie and A. Triulzi(Eds.), Long Journeys, Voices of African migrants on the road. Leiden: Brill publications, 165-185.