Thanos Maroukis is a graduate of the Sociology Department of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece. He holds a Master of Science degree on the subject of “Ethnicity and Multiculturalism” from the Department of Sociology of the University of Bristol, U.K. (2002). In 2007 he concluded his PhD Thesis at the Department of Economic and Peripheral Development of the Panteion University, Athens. His Thesis concerned the study of the consequences of migration on the Greek labour market. He is currently (2007-2009) working as a researcher in the EU funded research program CLANDESTINO (Irregular Migration: counting the uncountable. Data and trends across Europe). In the past (2003-2005) he has worked as a researcher assistant in the EU funded program IBEU (Functional Borders and Sustainable Security: Integrating the Balkans in the European Union) and in the composition of the 2003-2005 Greek National Plan for Social integration. He is specialized on the fields of migration, nationalism and on issues of labour market and labour relations. His research experience includes Southern, Western Europe and the Balkans. He is fluent in Greek (mother tongue), English and Italian.