Posts tagged Greece
Editorial: Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping

The Research Topic, Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping, is published in Frontiers and addresses how resilience and coping strategies are expressed among the most vulnerable communities, and how they are bearing the burden and enduring the most dire consequences of recent crises, not the least the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. People with migrant backgrounds, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, who were already experiencing multifaceted repressions and discrimination, now find themselves in an even more vulnerable situation ranging from immediate....

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Rudimentary Integration Policies in Greece. Not a priority for Greek government policies.

RESPOND Policy Brief [2021/16]

Authors: Eva Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Ilias Aggelos, Electra Petracou - University of the Aegean

Since the 1990s, Greece has been an immigration country, for migrants from Central and Eastern European countries, but also later for migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Nevertheless, no official integration policy was planned and implemented succesfully until recently. During the last decade, the political and social context in the country is…

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Border Management and Refugee Protection in Greece Threatening Protection Rights, Re-territorialising Borders?

RESPOND Policy Brief [2021/15]

Authors: Eva Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Ilias Aggelos, Electra Petracou - University of the Aegean

From the 1990s onwards, Greece has been an immigration country, for migrants from Central and Eastern European countries, but also later for migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In 2015, 856,723 people arrived by sea to the…

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