Evangelia Tastsoglou is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at St. Mary's University, Halifax, and a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University (1990 - 1993). Tastsoglou was born in Piraeus, Greece. She earned a Bachelor of Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1981) and a PhD in Sociology from Boston University (1990). Her research focuses on: Gender and International Migration; Immigrant Women; Transnationalism; Citizenship, Identities and Diasporas; Ethnicity / Race and the "Second Genderation"; Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism; Development and Globalization; Critical, Feminist and Anti-Racist Pedagogies. Her publications include: Immigrant Women in Atlantic Canada: Challenges, Negotiations, Re-Constructions (Canadian Scholars' Press / Women's Press, 2011); Women, Gender and Diasporic Lives: Community and Identity in Greek Migrations (Lexington Books, 2009); and over 30 peer-reviewed book chapters, journal articles, and policy documents.