Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91848-8_3
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Autonomous Solidarity: Hotel City Plaza

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“…Local activist networks assembled to provide food and medical aid to the growing number of newcomers who were sleeping rough on the streets and parks (Cabot 2019). The first refugee housing squats, City Plaza, a hotel in central Athens abandoned for years due to bankruptcy, and a public office building, also abandoned, emerged soon after, in September 2015 (Agustín and Martin 2019;Raimondi 2019). A constellation of refugee housing squats and other solidarity initiatives-social clinics, collective kitchens, intercultural schools, training workshops, free shops, legal advice, and translation services, etc.…”
Section: From Refugee To Pandemic Crisis: Grassroots Initiatives and Their Evolution In Greece And Hungarymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Local activist networks assembled to provide food and medical aid to the growing number of newcomers who were sleeping rough on the streets and parks (Cabot 2019). The first refugee housing squats, City Plaza, a hotel in central Athens abandoned for years due to bankruptcy, and a public office building, also abandoned, emerged soon after, in September 2015 (Agustín and Martin 2019;Raimondi 2019). A constellation of refugee housing squats and other solidarity initiatives-social clinics, collective kitchens, intercultural schools, training workshops, free shops, legal advice, and translation services, etc.…”
Section: From Refugee To Pandemic Crisis: Grassroots Initiatives and Their Evolution In Greece And Hungarymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, appropriated places can become important symbolic or ideational resources for collective identification among movement actors, as we have seen in the recent past famously with the Gezi Park, Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Square Park, Maidan Square (Ersoy, 2015;Stepnisky, 2020), but also with lesser-known examples of public spaces such as Plaza Italia, renamed as Plaza Dignidad in Santiago during the 2019 "social uprising, " or the Parque Indoamericano in Buenos Aires during 2010 (Hölzl, 2017); occupied hotels as the "sanctuary hotel" in Minneapolis in the context of the Blacklivesmatters protests in 2020 (Chua, 2020) or the Hotel City Plaza, occupied by refugees and supporters in Athens (Agustín and Jørgensen, 2019). Thus, from a perspective of the resource mobilization paradigm (McCarthy and Zald, 1977;Jenkins, 1983;Edwards and Kane, 2016), these territorial commons can be considered a resourcea movement infrastructure, a staging ground, a symbol-for movement activities and potential movement expansion.…”
Section: Giving Back To the Movement: Commons And Resistance To Neoliberalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One such initiative was City Plaza, a self-organized refugee shelter and center occupying a previously abandoned hotel in downtown Athens. Although City Plaza was not the only refugee squat, it has become the most visible counterexample of what solidarity looks like in everyday life (Agustín and Jørgensen, 2019).…”
Section: The Greek Context and Refugeesmentioning
confidence: 99%