- Children’s Right to Education: Reflections Form Implementing the “Early Childhood Programme” for Refugee Children Inside the Hotspots on Greek Islands
How do children arrive in Greece and why are they hosted in Hotspots or Reception and Identification Centers (RIC) as they are more commonly known?…
- Mundane surrealism: bureaucratic deterrence, violence and suffering
This chapter explores the bureaucratic procedures surrounding registration, identification and asylum that are implemented upon arrival and which produce uncertainty, protracted waiting and bureaucratic limbo…
- The Politics of Deterrence and Closed Borders
This chapter focuses on the politics of closed borders and deterrence that has been enforced since the Schengen Agreement 1985 but which has proliferated in…
- Intergenerational Harms: Border Memories and Genealogies of Harm
This chapter explores the legacies and memories of forced migration, borders and violence, focusing on Greece and Lesvos in particular. It begins by looking at…
- Thanatoharms: governing migration through violence and death
In this chapter, I focus on the continuum of politics of closed borders and explore the human consequences of the thanatopolitical border regime upon lives which…
- The media presentation of the refugees’ and locals’ voices in Eidomeni and Moria through the lens of human rights and media ethics
This thesis examines the media representation of refugees and locals in the areas of Eidomeni and Moria during the period of February to May 2016…
- Migrants’ integration in Greece and the role of social and solidarity economy
In the aftermath of the 2015 refugee “crisis”, the integration of asylum seekers and refugees began to feature in the public debate. The traditional picture…
- A making of a border island: The example of Lesvos
This article examines the gradual transformation of the island of Lesvos from a boundary into a border place, where migration management and border policies are…
- Civil Society in 21st Century Greece: Locating Challenges, Charting Opportunities, Assessing Developments
Civil society is commonly connected to the so-called “ third sector”, which is supposed to be differentiated from the state and the private, profit-oriented domain/market…
- Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement
Against the background of climate scepticism and raging anti-immigrant sentiments across Europe, the politics of climate change and the politics of migration are fraught with…
