CURRICULUM
VITAE : DR. ELIZABETH MESTHENEOS
Sociologist and Consultant to the Greek
Council for Refugees.
Home
Address : Pygmalionos 8, GR- ATHENS 118 51.
Tel : +3013461742, +01-3465009,
liz.mestheneos@mail.acropolis.gr www.sextant.gr
Education
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Kent,
U.K. "Greek Society and Culture:
The Case of Greek Television."1985
M.A. Government and Public Administration,
Brunel University, U.K. 1977
B.A.Hons Sociology and Social Anthropology,
London School of Economics and
Political Science, University
of London U.K.. 1964
Research
and Consultancy on Migration, Refugees, Social Exclusion and the Labour Market
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Consultant to the Greek Council
for Refugees for the European Refugee Fund actions for ECRE and OCIV 2001.
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Evaluator for the Reception Centre
for Asylum Seekers, Nea Makri, Hellenic Red Cross 2000-1.
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Research Consultant to the Greek
Council for Refugees for the European ECRE supported Task Force on Integration/
Networks on Integration of Refugees with responsibility for Cultural and
Community Integration in the 15 EU Member States. EU funded under B3-4113.1997-2000.
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Consultant to the Greek Council
for Refugees, General Rapporteur for the 4th European Conference on
Integration of Refugees, Athens, 2000
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Research
for report . Refugee entrepreneurs
in Greece. , SEXTANT Group, coordinated by SEON Foundation,
European programme funded under EU B3-4113. 2000
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National Research Coordinator for the
SOSTRIS (Social Strategies in a Risk Society) programme, SEXTANT Group,
collaborative European research managed by the University of East London, U.K.
for E.C. DG XII, Targetted Social and Economic Research, 1996-99
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Design and writing of research and report Bridges and Fences: Refugee Perceptions of Integration in the European
Union, ECRE Task Force on
Integration, Brussels: OCIV 1999
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Evaluator for the Operational
Programme of the Greek Ministry of Labour
for . Social Exclusion. for PRISMA epe 1998-9
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Research on
. Vietnamese Refugees in Greece
- their social integration. , Greek Council for Refugees, Athens. 1998
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Cooperative research with the Hellenic
Red Cross on the national contribution to the programme on developing internet
links for EU voluntary networks, SEXTANT Group for BAGSO, EC DGV 1997
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Research on labour mobility in the context
of the ESF funded research on . The Evaluation of Human Resources for
the Major Infrastructure Works. OAED
(EPA), and the National Trades Union Federation (INE)
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Research in Greece on "Overcoming Age
Barriers in Employment. . Collaborative European research coordinated by the
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
Dublin 1994-96
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Consultant to the Careers Office
of the University of Crete, 1994
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"ERGO" National Correspondent, for D.G. V, E.C.
programme to combat Long Term
Unemployed, (operated by C.E.I. Consultants and P.A.Cambridge Consultants.) 1989-91.
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Research consultant, Marangopoulos
Foundation for Human Rights, "The Situation of Foreign Migrant Workers in
Greece", for the Office of the E.C. President. Athens.1990-91
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Research consultant, UNHCR, Geneva,
and Athens, 1988-90 Reports:
a. "The Education, Living Conditions and Opportunities for
(self-) Employment of Refugees in
Greece"
b. "Refugees and Migrants in Greece".
Languages
: English (mother tongue) , Greek (fluent), French
.
Recent
Publications
Books
COPE". Ed.
Philp I., Biomedical and Health Research Vol. 46, IOS Press, the Netherlands.
Mestheneos E, Triantafillou J. "Working and caring in Greece - Private
solutions in an indifferent state" in Working
and caring: The situation in Germany, Europe and North America, Naegele G, Reichert M. (eds.), 1999
Mestheneos Elizabeth (1999). . Migrants in the
Balkans- some health related aspects from a Greek perspective. p.p.117-122. in Neighbours in the
Balkans:Initiating a Dialogue for Health.
Ed. Ritsatakis
A., Levett J.,Kyriopoulos J. WHO Europe & National School of Public Health,
Athens.
Kourti E., Mestheneos E. (1995) Looking
for Work : Communication Techniques. (in Greek), Mayia, Thessaloniki.
Forthcoming
E. Mestheneos, E.Ioannidi-Kapolou, S.Gaunt (2002) . Refugee integration in the European Union- a refugee
perspective. in Biographical Methods in Policy and Practice: a European Perspective eds.
P. Chamberlayne, J.Bornat, U. Apitzsch eds. Routledge, London.
Articles
Mestheneos E. (2000) .
Refugee entrepreneurs in Greece. SEON
Foundation, for EU B3-4113.
Report on www.sextant.gr and on www.gcr.gr.
Mestheneos E., Gaunt S., Iannidi-Kapolou E.
(1999) Bridges and Fences: Perceptions of
Integration
in the European Union.
Available on www.refugeenet.org.
Mestheneos Elizabeth and Ioannidi-Kapolou
Elli (1998-9 SOSTRIS Social Strategies in
Risk Society. Working papers nos. 1-8, Centre
for Biography and Social Policy, London:
University of
East London.
Reports
. Vietnamese Refugees. Integration in
Greece.2 Report submitted to the GCR
(unpubl.) with
Ioannidi-Kapolou
E. (1998),
"Overcoming Age Barriers in
Employment." European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and
Working
Conditions, Dublin 1995-96
"The Education, Living Conditions and Opportunities for
(self-) Employment of Refugees in Greece"
UNHCR, Geneva
1988
"Refugees and Migrants in Greece" UNHCR, Athens
1989,
"The Situation of Foreign Migrant Workers in Greece"
Marangopoulos Foundation for Human
Rights, for the
Office of the E.C. President., Athens., 1990-91
