Professor Floya Anthias has researched and published extensively in the field of ethnic and gender studies. Her work spans the following areas: theorising gender, race and class; new approaches to social stratification; ethnic minorities in the labour market; ethnic small entrepreneurship in Britain; ethnic minority women; exclusion and identity amongst British born Cypriots and Asians; self-employment of women; diasporic relationships and the Cypriot diaspora.
Her research interests also cover the following areas: Transnationalism, Transnational and trans-border crossings, Population movements, Migration theory, Human Rights and Global Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Political identities, Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Social Inequalities,

Her research projects have included the following:

- Ethnic minority women in Greenwich: connections between gender, class and race, (Thames Polytechnic grant), 1988-1992
·- Exclusion and Identity amongst British born Cypriots and Asians (UK Higher Education Funding Council, University of Greenwich, 1994-1998).
·- The Cypriot Diaspora (Inter-University Research Committee on Cyprus grant),
·- Gender and Migration in Southern Europe.

She was the leader of the British team in the EU funded TSER-project: “Self-employment activities of women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies”, 1997-2000.
Prof Anthias is on the editorial Board of the European Journal of Women’s Studies.

Recent publications related to the research theme:
Amongst her books are the following:

Woman, Nation, State , (edited with N Yuval-Davis), Macmillan, May 1989. pp 185

Racialised Boundaries: Gender, race, ethnicity, colour and class and the anti racist struggle (co written with N Yuval-Davis) , Routledge, September 1992. pp215.

Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Migration ,Avebury, November, 1992. pp156

Sociological Debates: Thinking about the Social, (edited with M. P. Kelly), University of Greenwich press, 1995 pp 438

Thinking about Social Divisions: Debates on Class, Gender, Nation and Race, (edited), Greenwich University Press, 1997 pp 331

Into the Margins: Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe, (ed with G. Lazaridis), Ashgate 1999

Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: women on the move (ed with G. Lazaridis), Berg 2000

Rethinking Anti-Racism: from theory to practice (ed with C. Lloyd), Routledge 2002

Prof. Floya Anthias has also published numerous articles in refereed journals. Recent articles include:

‘Evaluating Diaspora: Beyond Ethnicity?’, Sociology, Vol 32, no 3, 1998 pp557-580

‘Rethinking Social Divisions: some notes towards a theoretical framework’, Sociological Review, Vol 46, no 3 August 1998 pp. 506-535

‘The Limits of Ethnic Diversity’, Patterns of Prejudice, vol 32, no 4 1998 p. 5-19

‘Institutional Racism, Power and Accountability’, Sociological Research On Line, March 1999 Vol 4 no 1, pp. 1-19

‘Beyond Unities of Identity in High Modernity ‘, Identities, Vol 6(1), 1999, pp. 121-144

‘New Hybridities, Old Concepts: the limits of Culture’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, July 2001, Vol 24, No 4, pp. 619-641

‘The Material and the Symbolic in Theorising Social Stratification’, British Journal of Sociology, September 2001, Vol 52 No. 3, pp. 367-390

‘The concept of ‘social division’ and theorising social stratification: looking at ethnicity and class’, Sociology, November 2001 Vol 35, No.4 pp. 835-854

'Gender, Ethnicity and Social Stratification: rethinking inequalities’ in H. Bradley and S. Fenton (eds), Economy and Culture: Race and Class Revisited, London: Routledge, 2001

‘The Location of Difference and the Politics of Location’ in M. Eichler, J. Larkin and S. Neysmith (eds): Feminist Utopias, Revisioning Our Futures, Inanna Publications, 2002, pp247-256

‘Beyond feminism and multiculturalism: locating difference and the politics of location’, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol 25, Issue 3, pp275-394, May-June 2002

‘Where do I belong?: narrating identity and translocational positionality’ in Ethnicities, December, 2002, vol 2, no4 pp491-515.