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2017
This book is a study into how immigration is transforming the EU and its member-states. Kostas Maronitis contends that immigration creates utopian and dystopian visions of the European project. These visions can be found in the immigration detention centers and the fences between member-states, the dead bodies on Europe’s shores, the electoral success of far-Right parties, and in the way migrants and refugees view Europe as a land of rights and equality. Maronitis locates the transformative power of immigration at the intersection of sentiments regarding national and ethnic hierarchies with a policy framework constructed around the presence of migrants and refugees in Europe. By examining the utopian and dystopian transformation of the EU and of Greece as its borderland, the author challenges established notions of integration, citizenship and nationality on new intellectual and political terms. The book will be of use to students and scholars specializing in migration, EU policy and Greece, and will have a wider appeal for those interested in the ongoing debate surrounding the EU and immigration.
Since the 1980s, the countries of the (then) European Community (EC) 1 engaged in joint policymaking in an area that was not initially an EC competence 2 : policies on various aspects of immigration by third-country nationals (i.e., nationals of states other than those of the European Union) and on granting asylum or, more generally, other forms of international protection. At the same time, Greece, where these two policy areas were of low priority, became a country of destination for immigrants, the vast majority of whom entered the country illegally, and a transit country for people who either wanted to move to another European Union (EU) member state or were in need of international protection. The gradual convergence of member states' domestic policies on immigration and asylum toward a common EU-wide legislative framework had a major effect on Greek policies and represents a significant case study of " Europeanization " in policymaking. This article examines the parallel development of policies and practices in these two areas at the Greek and EU levels, from both legislative and policymaking angles. It analyzes the particularities of Greek immigration and asylum realities and political priorities, compares developments in the country with those in the rest of Europe and inside the EU institutions, and draws conclusions as to the effects on Greek policies of the progressive framing of common EU policies in regard to the process of Europeanization.
Acme an International E Journal For Critical Geographies, 2012
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2006
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of ‘Europeanness’ as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from two rounds of online public deliberation (2009/2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbolises progress, but, on the other hand, it is also constructed in terms of decline and ‘contamination’ by multiculturalism. Further, our analysis shows that the category of Europe can be mobilised in contradictory ways, in order to support arguments for and against citizenship rights for migrants. The paper concludes with a discussion of the ways in which constructions of Europe are implicated in processes of othering and inclusion in the context of current immigration debates.
The term “Fortress Europe” has been used frequently in the debates on European integration in immigration and asylum issues. “Fortress Europe” is used above all to criticise European policy developments as being overtly exclusionist against non-EU citizens who aspire to migrate to the member-states of the EU. The critics of EU policies stress that the latter inflict a high price in terms of universal human rights violations and racism, while they often fail to deliver their declared policy aims. Yet, away from the spotlights of academic research and public opinion, common EU norms may promote the liberalisation of immigration policies in the EU memberstates. The reason for this effect is to be found in the dual character of EU immigration policies. Notwithstanding the bias in favour of immigration controls, the EU framework of cooperation has also included a secondary attention to the integration of third-country nationals who already reside in the member-states. The participation of “new” countries of immigration in the process of establishing a common EU immigration policy exposed them to different gears of policy developments in Europe. Specifically, the adoption of common binding EU norms provided for a transmission belt of policies and priorities of “older” immigration countries across time and space. In the case of Greece, the dual EU policy framework and its binding EU norms created pressures to include aspects of integration policy for the legally resident immigrants. These resulted in the adoption of pro-immigrant measures at home that would have been unlikely outside the framework of EU membership. These findings invite for the reconsideration of the nature and limits of "Fortress Europe" and invite for further cross-country comparative research.
2nd LSE Symposium on Modern Greece, Current …, 2005
This congress aims to explore different forms of interaction and communication between representatives of the Padroados and the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in terms of antagonism, convergence and cooperation, starting from the creation of the dicastery in the seventeenth century to the end of the patronage system in the twentieth century, in territories under the control of the Iberian Padroados (America, Africa and Asia) and the Holy See. Proposal submission: Paper proposals should include an abstract of up to 250 words, including title, author’s name, affiliation, and a short biographical note (up to 200 words). Proposals may be submitted in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The proposals should be sent to padroados.propaganda.2025@gmail.com by 31 October 2024.
Scientific GOD Journal, 2016
Springer eBooks, 2022
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms - CloudDP '14, 2014
İtalya Dostluk Derneği, 2023
2016
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS, 2024
arXiv (Cornell University), 2021
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2002
Problems of Information Transmission - PROBL INF TRANSM, 2003
Modern Asian Studies, 2017