The Greek State’s Response to the Refugee Crisis and the Solidarity Movement

Last year, Greece became the epicenter of attention not only for the newly elected SYRIZA government and the negotiations for a bail-out with creditors, but also for its role as the main border-crossing point for hundreds of thousands of refugees, coming from war zones in order to continue their journey towards central and northern Europe. The country, located ‘on the doorstep of Europe’, is on the frontline of Europe’s biggest immigration crisis since the Second World War. It is thus a ‘frontier’ state between European Union states and the various countries which refugees or immigrants leave to seek asylum and/or a viable livelihood elsewhere. Hundreds of people are attempting the short but dangerous crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands in unseaworthy, overcrowded vessels that often founder and capsize.

Angelos Evangelinidis

Angelos Evangelinidis


Anglos Evangelinidis is PhD candidate at the University of Graz, Institute for Southeast European History and Anthropology. Topic of his PhD project is Alternative Media and Visual Counter-Narratives: Political Posters and Visual Symbols of Protest.


Articles

Contemporary
Southeastern Europe

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