Migrant Flows from Albania to Greece: Economic, Social and Spatial Exclusion

Lazaridis, Gabriella; Psimmenos, Iordanis

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“…Indeed, terms such as "multi-ethnic cities", "ethni-cities", "ethnic segregation" "ethnic divisions of space", appear in the literature of southern European cities only after the mid of the nineties when the metropolises of the South register as destinations in the new circuit of international migration. Researchers in southern Europe have been apt to relate their work to the international literature but stressed the need to contextualize the tools and concepts used in both the North European and the North American literature (Petsimeris, 1995;Maloutas, Karadimitriou, 2001;Malheiros, 2002Malheiros, , 2004Arbaci, 2002Arbaci, , 2004Lazaridis, Psimmenos, 2000).…”

Section: Immigration Segregation and Urban Development In Athens: Thmentioning

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“…Malheiros (2002Malheiros ( , 2004 seems to follow the same rationale by suggesting that lower levels of segregation in south European cities can be explained by the historical forms of informal working class suburbanisation and the contemporary processes of sprawling and fragmentation. Yet, there is empirical evidence pointing to complex processes which both intensify and diversify existing spatial divisions, thus shaping new forms of segregation in both central and suburban areas (Lazaridis, Psimmenos, 2000;Leontidou, 1995;Maloutas, Karadimitriou, 2001).…”

Section: Immigration Segregation and Urban Development In Athens: Thmentioning

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Immigration, Segregation and Urban Development in Athens: The Relevance of the La Debate for Southern European Metropolises

Arapoglou¹

2016

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Immigration, Segregation and Urban Development in Athens: The Relevance of the La Debate for Southern European Metropolises

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2016

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“…Lazaridis & Romaniszyn 1998;. Exclusion, on the other hand, attracts much of the focus, and criticism is targeted towards the legal framework that led to migrants' stigmatisation (Karydis 1996), the public discourse reflecting the exclusionary construction of Greek national identity (Veikou 1998;Triandafyllidou 2000), socio-economic and socio-spatial mechanisms (Psimmenos 1995;Mavreas 1998;Lazaridis & Psimmenos 2000;Halkos & Salamouris 2003), or education (Katsikas 1998).…”

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Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece : Processes of Social Incorporation of Balkan Immigrants in Thessaloniki

Hatziprokopiou¹

2006

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IMISCOE is a European Commission-funded Network of Excellence of more than 350 scientists from various research institutes that specialise in migration and integration issues in Europe. These researchers, who come from all branches of the economic and social sciences, the humanities and law, implement an integrated, multidisciplinary and internationally comparative research program that focuses on Europe's migration and integration challenges.Within the program, existing research is integrated and new research lines are developed that involve issues crucial to European-level policy-making and provide a theory-based design to implement new research.The publication program of IMISCOE is based on five distinct publication profiles, designed to make its research and results available to scientists, policymakers and the public at large. High-quality manuscripts written by IMISCOE members, or in cooperation with IMISCOE All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Summary of thesisThe study examines issues surrounding the social incorporation of immigrants in Greece, focusing on a particular city, Thessaloniki, and on two migrant groups, Albanians and Bulgarians. The research is set within the debates about migration and globalisation, and more specifically within the regional context of Balkan transnational migration. The thesis is the outcome of fieldwork research that involved structured questionnaires, in-depth interviews, background sources and systematic observation. It addresses the factors shaping immigrants' lives through combined methodologies and an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond oversimplifying accounts of exclusion-inclusion; rather, these are seen as dynamic processes connected to the wider social reality. The concept of incorporation is employed in order to analyse both the ways by which migrants organise their lives in the host society and the structural, institutional and cultural contexts that condition them. The analytical framework distinguishes between several interrelated modes of incorporation: social/political responses; labourmarket integration; living conditions and social space; coping strategies and community formation. A number of additional factors are also considered: the composition of the migrant populations; migratory patterns and dynamics; the role of social networks; issues of access; and questions of identity. The findings provide an empirical account of the immigrants' characteristics, uncovering a high degree of heterogeneity that unavoidably determines incorporation patterns. 'Immigrants' become a social category constructed on the basis of the exclusionary mechanisms: the restrictive immigration policy, the spread of xenophobic attitudes, and the par...

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“…In Greece, in the 1990's, a number of case studies supported the idea that what mattered most for migrants' informal labour organization, apart from regimes of employment and immigration control, was also the type of work performed. Sociological studies focused on personal services, as a distinctive form of labour which generated particular living conditions and aspects of social identity (Lazaridis and Psimmenos, 2000;Karakatsanis, Swarts, 2003;Psimmenos, 1995). Anderson's and Phizacklea's comparative report (1997), for example, on the conditions and life prospects of migrant women domestic workers and a number of research studies that followed (for an overview see Psimmenos and Kassimati, 2006a), renewed interest on the issue of marginality of women and of the different types of inequalities they experience.…”

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Work culture and migrant women's welfare marginalization

Psimmenos

2007

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Central to this paper is the relationship between work and welfare marginalization of migrant women domestic workers. Based upon the findings of a recent (2005)(2006)(2007) research study on Albanian and Ukrainian domestic workers' access to social insurance, medical and children's care (i.e. nurseries, kindergartens), the paper claims that welfare barriers are constituted around lack of resources, discriminations as well as conditions and values at work.At the highest level of generality, paid domestic work is considered part of an economic activity that is increasingly difficult to relate with the official state policies and welfare provisions, because of its fluid and personalized work conditions. However, the typical processes, routes followed, and set of ideas developed by migrant women in domestic work in order e.g to maintain employability, necessitate the adoption of practices and values which sustain and enhance existing welfare barriers to the above mentioned services.The first part of the paper explores the role of low status jobs in welfare ideas and practices. The second part refers to the case of Albanian cleaners and Ukrainian carers working in Greece, their work conditions and values, and how both contribute to welfare limits.

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Migrant Flows from Albania to Greece: Economic, Social and Spatial Exclusion

Cited by 49 publications

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Immigration, Segregation and Urban Development in Athens: The Relevance of the La Debate for Southern European Metropolises

Immigration, Segregation and Urban Development in Athens: The Relevance of the La Debate for Southern European Metropolises

Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece : Processes of Social Incorporation of Balkan Immigrants in Thessaloniki

Work culture and migrant women's welfare marginalization

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