Nikos Xypolytas is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Aegean and specializes on migration and labour. He studied Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2001-2004) and he received his Masters from the University of Oxford (2005) in Economic Sociology. He completed his PhD in Greece at Panteion University, (2012) and looked at the consequences of migrants live-in domestic work on family and work relations. He teaches Sociology of Migration at the University of the Aegean and his academic focus is on the reproduction of migrant labour. His recent research interest looks at refugees’ long processes of marginalization which undermine their future social position in host countries.