Borders, Refugees, Migration
2025
- Life in a Greek refugee camp: A personal account on being a nurse volunteerIn 2016, a rising migration wave swept the Mediterranean area with numerous overcrowded makeshift transport boats crossing the Aegean Sea, with most arriving in Greece…
- Rural development, economic growth, and the acceptance of immigrants: the quest for a comprehensive frameworkGreece’s historical challenges with immigration and its recent experiences during the 2015–16 refugee crisis form the backdrop for this study. Amidst the evolving narrative of…
2024
- Building a digital archive of migrations across the Mediterranean: ethnography and public sphereThe paper explores the production of a digital archive of migration memories, solidarity, border violence and resistance between the Horn of Africa, the Mediterranean space…
- Between Mediterranean Realism and Fantasy: Migrant DividesThe boat journey is central to the narrative of Mediterranean migration of the undocumented. While the boat itself is flimsy, fragile, unstable, it has powerfully…
- Struggling for Time on Lesvos: The Impact of EU and National Legislation and Procedures on Refugee TemporalitiesSince the summer of 2015, the Greek island of Lesvos has been centre stage of the so-called refugee crisis and one of the sites where…
- Grains of dust in the Aegean archipelago: Unruly migrants and everyday resistance in EU hotspotsThis article centres the everyday resistance practices by illegalised migrants contained in EU hotspots in Greece. Set against the regime of violent abandonment governing these…
- Navigating disputed waters: legal frameworks and strategies for maritime boundary resolutionThe purpose of this study is precisely to demonstrate the mutual obligations of the states in the disputed maritime areas until the final settlement of…
- Activist burnout in No Borders: The case of a highly diverse movementActivist burnout is a common threat to activists’ personal sustainability and to a movement’s effectiveness. Compared to related fields such as humanitarian aid or social…
- Border Pushbacks in Greece: Human Rights Violations and Psychological ImpactsThe illegal practice of border pushbacks by sea along Greece’s borders has become standardised and normalised despite the severe human rights violations associated with it….
- From Fortress Europe to Border-Filter: Vulnerability, Biopolitics, and the Management of Migration in Greece and the European Union after 2015Following increased migration flows in 2015, the European Commission (EC) and the Greek government implemented new strategies and legislation to regulate mobility in the EU…
- Of land and sea.“Interested solidarities” and the migration industry from belowThis paper explores economic interactions between displaced people, local societies and spatial dimensions of migration management and border controls, most notably camps, focusing on the…
- A camera in the water: reframing the migrant image in documentary filmYou remember wanting to let go and swim ashore. You remember wanting only to let go. To sink. Into nothingness. I have had enough. Boats….
- Transient communities: The case of a refugee choir in the Catholic church of LesvosFor many refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Africa, the Greek island of Lesvos is the first point of entry into the European…
2023
- Children’s Right to Education: Reflections Form Implementing the “Early Childhood Programme” for Refugee Children Inside the Hotspots on Greek IslandsHow 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 sufferingThis 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 BordersThis 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 HarmThis 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 deathIn 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 ethicsThis 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 economyIn 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 LesvosThis 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 DevelopmentsCivil 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 displacementAgainst 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…
2021
- The ‘Crises of Lesbos’Since 2015 hundreds of thousands of migrants have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos, many fleeing war and poverty, others hoping to find work…
older articles
- Border Harms and Everyday Violence. The Lived Experiences of Border Crossers in Lesvos Island, GreeceIn 2015, Lesvos a Greek Island located at the North-Eastern edge of the Aegean Sea at the borders with Turkey became an important gate for…
- Safe Havens and Prison Islands: The Politics of Protection and Deterrence of Border Crossers on Lesvos IslandIn this paper I argue that the refugee crisis, in terms of discourse and sequence of events, has been deliberately misused by the EU policymakers…
- The rhetoric of celebrity humanitarianism: the case study of LesvosCelebrities participate in performances from the zones of suffering in order to trigger emotions to their audiences and engage them in such causes. In this…
- Postcards From the Edge of Europe: Immigrant Landscapes and the Creation of Greektopia, Heterotopia, and Atopia in Lesvos, GreeceThe island of Lesvos is composed of landscapes that have been influenced since antiquity and has been used by its inhabitants for many centuries. Now,…
- Geography, Defence and Security in the Aegean Sea RegionIn the extended region of the Aegean Sea, encompassing the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, and the Black Sea as well, we can easily identify, along several…