Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor and Director of a Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She has been teaching as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. Her recent books include Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate), European Multiculturalism(s) (with T. Modood and N. Meer, 2011, Edinburgh University Press), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Africa and Asia to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2012, Palgrave), The Greek Crisis and Modernity in Europe (with R. Gropas and H. Kouki, Palgrave, 2013), Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? (Ashgate, 2013), and What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, 2013, Palgrave).