Olga Lafazani is writing her PhD thesis on “Transnational Geographies of Migration” in Department of Geography, Harokopio University in Athens. She holds an MSc in “Architecture and Spatial Design: Urban and Regional Planning” by the National Technical University of Athens and has a first degree in Economic and Regional Development, from Panteion University. She is a trained systemic group therapist at the Athenian Institute of Anthropos (1987-1997).

In her PhD research she is trying to trace the articulations and interrelations of transnational migration, borders and urban space from the stand point of every day life as a theoretical and methodological concept. She has been an active member of Network for the Social Support of Refugees and Migrants and for four years she was the scientific responsible of two projects for the rights of migrants and refugees in Greece funded by “Equal” community initiative. Also for 3 years she has been working as a researcher under Professor Dina Vaiou in a project of the National Technical University, titled “Intersecting Patterns of every day life and socio-spatial transformations in the city. Migrant and local women in the neighbourhoods of Athens”. She was also member of the organising committee of the International “Seminars of the Aegean” (2007). She has attended several conferences and seminars and has made some publications.