Becoming White

In this autobiographical essay, I explore two parallel processes that are somehow interconnected: the first is the shift in my own understanding of race throughout my life, from my formative years in Greece until my recent years in the Netherlands, where I began an academic career as an anthropologist. The second is my own racialization as ‘white’ since I moved to the Netherlands and became an academic. After I outline what were the relevant categories of difference in the small city of Greece where I grew up., I ask how appropriate it is to apply the category of ‘white’ to migrant scholars whose pathway to academia started in contexts in which whiteness had different meanings or was less significant as a marker of privilege

Formative assessment · Pedagogy · Political science · Racialization · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

• Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education

  Open Access•Maria Tsouroufli•Educational Review•2025

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• Guest editorial

  Open Access•Maria Tsouroufli, Giuliana Ferri•Equal Opportunities International•2025

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• L'envie, moteur de l'imitation

  Alexandra Bakalaki•Ethnologie française•2005

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• The Absent Presence

  M Herzfeld•South Atlantic Quarterly•2002

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• Hospitality and Immigration in a Greek Urban Neighborhood

  Open Access•Apostolos Andrikopoulos•City & Society•2017

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