THEODOROS FOUSKAS AND VASSILEIOS TSEVRENIS (EDITORS), CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION IN GREECE: A SOURCEBOOK, EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW ORGANIZATION (EPLO) PUBLICATIONS, 2014

Pub. Date: 2014 – 4th Quarter

Binding: Hardcover – Softcover – eBook

ISBN: 978-618-81128-7-2

This book:

Offers insights on immigration in Greece and Southern Europe highlighting its growing relevance for the worldwide discussion on migration and immigration policies
Combines policy, law, and qualitative and quantitative research, with theory
Develops arguments in relevance to the history and contemporary politics of immigration in Greece
Provides motivation and guide for future research in the area of immigration
Consists of interdisciplinary, international authorship

This book examines the immigration phenomenon which constitutes a major concern to modern societies like Greece. It is directly associated with a multitude of parameters affecting the reception societies, their institutions, and immigrants’ distinctiveness and particularities. Greece has developed, from a once sending country of immigrants who moved in the first half of the 20th century to overseas countries and during the post-war period to Western European countries after the fall of their respective regimes, to a receiving country of immigrants. For the very first time, Greek society had to deal with immense immigrant flows from the neighbouring Balkan countries, the Republics of the former Soviet Union as well as considerable numbers of immigrants from African, Middle East and Asian countries. The book explores theoretical and empirical approaches, analyses the new policies and presents the latest researches in Greece, interrogating the relationship between immigration and immigration policy, institutional context of immigration and asylum management, work and employment, education, access to health care and social services, coexistence with the native population, formation of community associations and representation and judicial treatment and criminalization of immigrants. Each of its chapters, written by experts, explores how the conditions in the country, the policies, the politics, the values and attitudes influence the process of immigration and subsequently affect the immigrants, migration, and the nation as well. Contributors argue and suggest tangible solutions to imperative issues, explore current patterns and policies of immigration, while their contributions balance these and other conflicting concerns that require the substantive and expert discourse offered in this book. Focusing on the rational management of legal and illegal/irregular migration flows and the pursuit of justice and maintenance of security, coupled with respect for fundamental human rights, the volume is a practical handbook for researchers and students, government institutions or agencies and those involved in the phenomenon of immigration and immigration policy.

CONTENTS

Editors and Contributors …..xvii
Acknowledgments …..xxiii
Preface by SPYRIDON FLOGAITIS …..xxv

1. THEODOROS FOUSKAS / VASSILEIOS TSEVRENIS
Introduction: Challenges of Immigration in 21st Century Greece …..1

PART I
IMMIGRATION POLICY
2. PROKOPIS PAVLOPOULOS
The Greek Immigration Policy between 2004-2009 …..35
3. NESTOR COURAKIS
Towards a Greek Immigration Policy with Humanity and an Effective Outcome …..45
4. IOANNIS KOTOULAS
A New Instrumental Framework of Greek Citizenship …..51
5. PHILIPPE NÉLIDOFF
Simples regards d’un historien du droit sur l’évolution des politiques migratoires françaises …..71

PART II
ASYLUM AND BORDER MANAGEMENT
6. PATROKLOS GEORGIADIS
The Reform of Greece’s Asylum and Migration Management System …..87
7. GIORGOS PAPANIKOLAOU
Solidarity and Fair Burden Sharing in EU Migration and Asylum Policy …..99
8. DANIEL ESDRAS
Border Management in Greece …..107
9. CHRISTOS THEODOROPOULOS
The Management of Mixed Migration and Local Integration of Refugees: Problems and Prospects …..117

PART III
IMMIGRANT WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
10. IORDANIS PSIMMENOS
Approaching Domestic Work and Servitude …..127
11. THEODOROS FOUSKAS
“Community” Found or Lost in the City? The Consequences of Precarious, Low-status Work on Association Participation of Nigerian Immigrant Workers in Greece …..143
12. KATERINA VASSILIKOU
Children’s Care and its Shortcomings in a Transnational Context …..165
13. ANGELO TRAMOUNTANIS / MANOLIS CHRYSAKIS / DIONYSSIS BALOURDOS
Integration of Second-generation Immigrants in Greece: Educational and Employment Aspects …..177

PART IV
IMMIGRANT EDUCATION
14. ISMINI KRIARI
The Challenges of Intercultural Education for Greece ………………199
15. EVANGELIA KALERANTE
Economic Crisis and Economic Management of Education: Ideological and Political Consequences of its Predominance in Migrants’ Education …..207
16. CHRISTINE MILESSI
The Management of “Belong” to the School Community: Field Research of Albanian Pupils in the Civil Environment of Piraeus …..223
17. STAMATIA PASCHALIORI
Human Rights and Volunteering: Their Role in the Decrease of Racist Behaviors in the Hellenic School …..239
18. MARIA DELLATOLA
Difficulties in the Integration and Adjustment of (Semi)nomad Roma Children in Primary Education …..253

PART V
ACCESS OF IMMIGRANTS TO HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES
19. VASSILIS KIKILIAS
Illegal Immigration Flows to Greece and Implications for Public Health …..271
20. GEORGE ANASTOPOULOS / DAPHNE KAITELIDOU / PETROS GALANIS / OLGA SISKOU / MAMAS THEODOROU / EUGENIA KOULI / KONSTANTINOS TSAVALIAS
The Knowledge and Use of Health Services in Greece by Immigrants ……281
21. ELLI IOANNIDI-KAPOLOU / KATERINA VASSILIKOU
Intercultural Mediators in Greek Hospitals: First Assessment …..297
22. CHRISTINA TSAKALOU
Social Services and Procedures of Social Exclusion for Immigrants/Victims Sexually Exploited in Greece …..307

PART VI
COEXISTING WITH IMMIGRANTS
23. VASSILEIOS TSEVRENIS
Social Discontent and Inefficient Immigration Policies: An Emerging Danger for Democracy in Europe …..321
24. JOANNA TSIGANOU
Aspects of Racism and Xenophobia in Contemporary Greece …..329
25. PANOS HATZIPROKOPIOU / VENETIA EVERGETI
Performing and Practicing Islam in the Orthodox City: Religious Space and Places of Worship of Muslim Migrants in the Athenian Urban Landscape …..339
26. ATHANASIOS KARANTJIAS / NINETA POLEMI
Collaboration in Harmonising Immigrant Processes with the Use of Innovative Technologies …..355

PART VII
IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS AND REPRESENTATION
27. MAAROUF ALOBEID
Syrian Refugees in Greece …..381
28. ZAINOUL ABEDIN
The Conditions of Bangladeshi Immigrants in Greece …..395
29. JAMIL M. SYED
Immigrants from Pakistan in Greece: Progress and Regression …..399
30. THEODOROS FOUSKAS
Representation and Participation of Immigrants in Public Life: Immigrant Consultative Bodies at Local Level in Greece …..407

PART VIII
JUDICIAL TREATMENT AND CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS
31. GEORGE P. NIKOLOPOULOS
The Changing Concepts of Frontiers and Territorialities in the “Area of Freedom, Security and Justice” and the Criminalization of Migration …..447
32. VASSILIS KARYDIS
Immigrants and “Moral Panics” in Greece …..463
33. EVANGELIA VAGENA-PALAIOLOGOS
Legislative and Judicial Treatment of Immigrants …..477
34. CHARA KAFKA
Immigration as a Factor of Social Cohesion Catalysis: The Role of Law in its Preservation …..493

THEODOROS FOUSKAS, NIGERIAN IMMIGRANTS IN GREECE: LOW-STATUS WORK, COMMUNITY, AND DECOLLECTIVIZATION, NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2014

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Theodoros Fouskas

Nigerian Immigrants in Greece

Low-Status Work, Community, and Decollectivization

Nova Science Publishers

New York, 2014

Pub. Date: 2014 – 4th Quarter

Binding: Hardcover – Binding: ebook

ISBN: 978-1-63321-674-7

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Nigerian Immigrants in Greece

Low-Status Work, Community, and Decollectivization

Theodoros Fouskas

(Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, New York College, Greece)

Book Description: • How does low-status work of Nigerian immigrants affect their organization and representation in immigrant community associations and unions? • How do Nigerian immigrants perceive and what practices do they develop towards the collective organization, representation and claim of work rights? The sociological research in this book emphasizes that the lack of permanent employment and restriction of immigrants in precarious, low-status/paid occupations distance them from both collectivities and claims. By introducing a new perspective on the investigation of the migration phenomenon in Greece, this book contributes significantly to relative international research and literature. This makes it an extremely useful source for researchers and students, public agencies or bodies and for those dealing with the phenomenon of immigration and immigration policy. In the first part of the book, the clarification of the theoretical concepts of community, occupational community and low-status work in the migration context is attempted. The impact that low-status/paid work has on immigrant collectivities is analyzed and the types of immigrant community associations and the attitude of the Greek trade unions towards the immigrants are discussed. Moreover, an overview of international empirical research on Nigerian immigrants, as well as on studies that focus on the investigation of immigrant community associations in Greece is endeavored. The second part of the book concentrates on the consequences low-status/paid work has on the collective organization and representation of the immigrant workforce. The micro-sociological research and analysis examines the case of Nigerian immigrants in Greece and how the frame of their work and their employment affects their participation in the immigrant hometown association Nigerian Community in Greece and in Greek trade unions. The results based on in-depth interviews demonstrate that due to the ramifications of their work, Nigerians are cut off, do not claim established workers’ rights and do not seek membership in any community associations or unions. In contrast, Nigerian immigrant workers depend on informal and impersonal social networks in search of solidarity and thus resort to alternative means of ensuring survival in Greek society, choosing individualistic and materialistic perceptions and attitudes of regulating their difficulties and workers’ rights, far from collectivities, often resigning from them completely. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents:

Foreword

List of Tables

List of Figures

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART 1.

Chapter 1. Theoretical Clarifications

Chapter 2. International Research on Nigerian Immigrants

Chapter 3. International Research on Immigrant Associations in Greece

PART 2.

Chapter 4. Research Methodology

Chapter 5. Immigrants from Nigeria in Greece

PART 3.

Chapter 6. Epilogue

Appendix: Statistical Data on Nigerians

Bibliography

Index

Series: Immigration in the 21st Century: Political, Social and Economic Issues
Binding: Hardcover Binding: ebook
Pub. Date: 2014 – 4th Quarter
Pages: 7×10 – (NBC-C)
ISBN: 978-1-63321-674-7
Status: Available

Reviews

“This book provides rich insights into the lives of migrants in Greece, portraying them not as victims or hustlers but people. Fouskas’ analysis of the impact of insecurity and deregulation on the Nigerian community has important lessons for all those interested in labour organising, migration and work across the European Union. Readers will see street vendors with a new appreciation of their lives and struggles after reading this fascinating study.” – Reviewed by Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship, Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford.

“This important study provides a perceptive and comprehensive overview of the Nigerian immigrant experience in Greece. Creatively combining interviews with survey and census data, Fouskas vividly recounts the hopes, dreams, fears, trials, and triumphs of this emerging ethnic community with clarity and compassion. This book will become a reference point for research on low-status work, immigrant organizations, collective organizing, and labor rights in Greece. It not only effectively summarizes what we know about this immigrant group, but also puts a human face to how Nigerian immigrants have quietly, yet profoundly, reshaped Greek society today.” – Reviewed by Van C. Tran, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.

“Dr Th. Fouskas provides us with a scholarly first-class study of Nigerian migrant labour in Greece. It considerably adds to our understanding and through a penetrating macro and micro sociological analysis deprives us of misconceptions, clichés and theoretical fallacies of the origins, patterns and functions of migrant workers’ exclusion. It is a valuable book for students and experts in migration, community and work studies.” – Reviewed by Iordanis Psimmenos, Associate Professor, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece.

“Dr. Theodoros Fouskas, with his book Nigerian Immigrants in Greece: Low-status Work, Community, and Decollectivization, has stimulated an imperative discussion of the severe effects of precarious, low-status work on the collective organization of immigrant workers in the 21st century. This well-conceptualized book and unique in-depth research deals with crucial questions and complex issues and offers invaluable insights with remarkable efficiency. It helps fill a significant gap in Greek and international literature and should be recommended to academics, researchers, policymakers and all those seeking comprehension of labor and immigration issues. Its thorough analysis with sufficient clarity also makes it a required source suitable for classroom use. The book contributes significantly to the current discourse concerning the difficulties caused by acute employment precariousness in immigrant community organization, association formation and participation, immigrant workers’ representation, social and labor rights, trade unionism and solidarity and how these should be combated within a contemporary insecure socio-economic context.” – Reviewed by Angelos Syrigos, Assistant Professor, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Secretary General of Population and Social Cohesion, Ministry of Interior, Greece.