Ilay Romain Ors

Ilay Romain Ors 

Professor  

Affiliation: COMPAS, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Expert in: Cities and migration, Forced migration, Identity
Geographic focus: Aegean/Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey

Migratory waves have existed since the ancient times in the Aegean, forming and reshaping societies and identities in overlapping fashion. Focusing on fieldsites including Leros, Lesvos, Athens, and Istanbul, my research seeks to account for the diversity and multiplicity of Aegean migrations by juxtaposing the imminent 'refugee crisis' against the background of other migratory routes, including the forced exchange of populations that took place a hundred years ago, as well as various cases of both known and invisible economic immigrants, political refugees, and diasporic formations between and beyond Greece and Turkey throughout the course of the last century.