Dr. Cynthia Helen Malakasis
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Scientific activity
Ph.D. in Global and Sociocultural Studies (Anthropology track), 2014
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL
M.A. in Comparative Sociology, 2008
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL
B.S. in Print Journalism and International Studies, 2002
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Scientific interests
Nationalism, migration, citizenship, ethnicity, race, reproductive justice, Romani studies, Greece
Selected publications
Book Chapters
Cynthia Malakasis. 2020. “Guests and Hosts in an Athens Public Maternity Clinic: Hospitality as Lens for the Analysis of Migrants’ Healthcare.” In Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death, edited by Vanessa Grotti and Mark Brightman. New York: Palgrave.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56585-5_3
Cynthia Malakasis and Nina Sahraoui. 2020. “Introducing Gender into the Theorization of Health-Related Deservingness: Ethnographic insights from Athens and Melilla.,” In Borders across Healthcare. Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe, edited by Nina Sahraouι. Berghahn Books.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SahraouiBorders
Grotti, Vanessa, Cynthia Malakasis, Chiara Quagliariello, and Nina Sahraoui. 2017. “Pregnant Crossings: A Political Economy of Care on Europe’s External Borders.” In Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities, edited by Seema Shekhawat and Emanuela C. Del Re, 63-85. London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/women-and-borders-9780755601134/
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Grotti, Vanessa, Cynthia Malakasis, Chiara Quagliariello, and Nina Sahraoui. 2019. “Temporalities of Emergency: Migrant Pregnancy and Healthcare Networks in Southern European Borderlands.” Social Science and Medicine 222, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.022
Grotti, Vanessa, Cynthia Malakasis, Chiara Quagliariello, and Nina Sahraoui. 2018. “Shifting Vulnerabilities: Gender and Reproductive Care on the Migrant Trail to Europe.” Comparative Migration Studies 6 (23) 1-18.
doi: 10.1186/s40878-018-0089-z
Policy Report
Malakasis, Cynthia H. 2020. “Migrant Maternity Care in Athens, Greece, 2016-2017: A Policy Report.” RSCAS Policy Papers. Florence: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
https://cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publication/b7c15710-b7a0-5681-8bd8-e35ba6141a51
Public Commentary (in Greek)
Malakasis, Cynthia H. 2022. “‘Biopolitical Rationalities’ of Reproduction in Greece before and after the Covid-19 Pandemic [Βιοπολιτικοί Ορθολογισμοί» της Αναπαραγωγής στην Ελλάδα πριν και μετά την Πανδημία].” feministiqá 5. https://feministiqa.net/en/biopolitical-rationalities-of-reproduction-in-greece/
Malakasis, Cynthia H. 2026. “Underage marriage in Romani Communities: Racist Representations of an Ambivalent Practice [Ανήλικοι γάμοι σε Ρομά κοινότητες: Η Ρατσιστική Αναπαράσταση μιας Αμφίθυμης Πρακτικής].” ΖΗΝ 103, March 15.
Projects
Completed projects
Research Project: “Birthing Others, Raising Citizens? Maternity care, reproductive justice, and intersectional citizenship among the Athens Roma” Role: Principal Investigator Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2023-2025
Other
Dr. Malakasis is currently in the process of completing her manuscript, “Our Ancestors’ Bones Will Rattle”: Deploying the Nation’s Past(s) in Contemporary Immigration Debates,
under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.