Greece as ‘Transit Country’: The Role of Law and Policy

Stevens, Dallal

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“…Since the 1990s, Greece has been both a transit and destination country for migrants (Stevens, 2018), but when 850,000 people entered Greece in 2015, the situation was termed a ''refugee crisis'' (European Commission, 2017) and a ''global humanitarian crisis'' (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2014). As international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) began their operations in Greece, they quickly discovered that, outside the institutionalized humanitarian system, a range of other actors had emerged, including large numbers of Greek solidarians and international volunteers, engaged in activities to support migrants through non-registered, selforganized and self-governed groups.…”

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Who Needs the Experts? The Politics and Practices of Alternative Humanitarianism and Its Relationship to NGOs

Ishkanian

Shutes

2021

Voluntas

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Drawing on fieldwork in Greece, we examine the politics and practices of autonomous volunteering in the context of the migration crisis. This involves individuals engaging in activities to support migrants through non-registered, self-organized and self-governed groups that work independent from and in some cases, even in opposition to NGOs. We consider autonomous volunteering as a form of collective action and argue that it constitutes an alternative humanitarianism. While recent literature has sought to identify the rise of emergent practices of alternative humanitarianism in Europe, research has often overlooked how autonomous volunteers distinguish themselves from, relate to and collaborate with NGOs and conversely, how NGOs view and engage with them. We found that despite their critiques of NGOs and their determination to work independently, there were instances of cooperation between autonomous volunteers and NGOs. These interactions did not become substantive alliances, as the work of NGOs and autonomous volunteers continued to be disconnected from each other.

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