MARTIN BALDWIN-EDWARDS

Martin Baldwin‐Edwards is co‐founder and Co‐Director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Panteion University, Athens (since 1999) and a Research Associate of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna. He was scientific co‐ordinator in
2007/8 of the ICMPD REGINE study for the European Commission DG Justice on regularisations in the EU and for 2007-9 was the country expert on Greece and Cyprus in the ICMPD PROMINSTAT project on migration statistics. Previous appointments include Visiting Professor/Jean Monnet Fellow in International Migration at the European University Institute, Florence (1997/8); Research Fellow, European Institute, Queen’s University, Belfast (1994-7); and lectureships at the Universities of Manchester (Victoria and MMU) and Hull in social policy, economics, political science and European Studies. He is also a Founding Editor (1994) of the academic journal South European Society & Politics published by Routledge.

In recent years, he has served as a consultant or advisor on migration issues in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Balkan regions for UNDP, the European Commission training seminars for diplomats (Diplomatic Academy, Malta), the East‐West Institute in Brussels, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the governments of Greece, Spain and Italy. He was an expert witness for the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Migration Committee’s Hearing on Regularisation of Illegal Migrants in 2006, and has also served as an expert witness on Greece for ECRI, Council of Europe.

He has published more than 60 articles, reports and books since 1989. Recent publications include: (with A. Kraler, 2009), REGINE: Regularisations in Europe, Amsterdam UP; (with K. Apostolatou) ‘Statistics and Reality: Greece’, in H. Fassmann et al., eds., (2009), Statistics and Reality, Amsterdam UP; ‘Towards a theory of illegal migration: historical and structural components’, Third World Quarterly (2008); (with K. Apostolatou) ‘Ethnicité et migration: une histoire grecque’, Migrance (2008); ‘La migración en África subasahariana y el Magreb’, Vanguardia Dossier (2008); ‘Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union’, South East European and Black Sea Studies (2007); ‘La migración en la región del Mediterraneo’, Vanguardia Dossier (2007); ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: North Africa as a region of emigration, immigration and transit migration’, Review of African Political Economy (2006); ‘Migration between Greece and Turkey: from the “Exchange of Populations” to the non‐recognition of borders’, South East Europe Review (2006); ‘Balkan migrations and the European Union: Patterns and trends’, The Romanian Journal of European Studies (2006).