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10th ESPAnet ITALY CONFERENCE: THEODOROS FOUSKAS AND SYMEON SIDIROPOULOS, “OVERCOMING SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE AND INEQUALITY FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS THROUGH EDUCATION: SOCIAL POLICY AND ACCESS TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CHILDREN IN GREECE IN TIMES OF CRISIS”, [23 (21-23) SEPT, 2017, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, ITALY]

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Programma della decima Conferenza ESPAnet Italia
Il Welfare e i perdenti della globalizzazione:
le politiche sociali di fronte a nuove e vecchie disuguaglianze
Forlì, 21-23 settembre 2017
Università di Bologna – Campus di Forlì
Teaching Hub, Viale Corridoni 20

Conference Programme

SABATO 23 SETTEMBRE 2017

11.00-13.15: SESSIONE PARALLELA V

Sessione 4
Early childhood education, the social investment strategy and Southern Europe

aula 20
Coordinatrici: Barbara Da Roit, Stefania Sabatinelli

Keynote speaker: Stefano Neri

Rossella Bozzon, Federica Santangelo
Pre-school attendance and school performances. The case of Bologna and Naples

Theodoros Fouskas, Symeon Sidiropoulos
Overcoming Social Disadvantage and Inequality for Social Integration of Migrants through Education: Social Policy and Access to Early Childhood Education for Immigrant and Refugee Children in Greece in Times of Crisis

Rossana Trifiletti
Not just going private: ECEC Services in local Mediterranean Welfare Systems

 

Citation: Fouskas, T. and Sidiropoulos, S. “Overcoming Social Disadvantage and Inequality for Social Integration of Migrants through Education: Social Policy and Access to Early Childhood Education for Immigrant and Refugee Children in Greece in Times of Crisis”, Session: “Early Childhood Education, the Social Investment Strategy and Southern Europe which will be held in the next 10th ESPAnet Italy Conference “The Welfare and the losers of globalization: social policies facing old and new inequalities”, 23 (21-23) September, 2017, University of Bologna – Campus of Forlì, Italy (http://www.espanet-italia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ESPAnet_programma-sintetico-2017.pdf).

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ESA 2017: THEODOROS FOUSKAS AND FOTINI-MARIA, MINE, “I HAVE A BAD JOB AND I’M ALONE HERE, BUT I’M NOT EVEN THINKING OF GOING BACK HOME!” THE IMPACT OF ENTRAPMENT IN PRECARIOUS, LOW-STATUS WORK AND THE SHATTERING OF FAMILIAL AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS OF SOLIDARITY ON THE DECISION OF MIGRANTS TO RETURN IN THEIR ORIGIN COUNTRIES VIA THE ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN AND REINTEGRATION PROGRAMME [31 AUG. (29 AUG.-01 SEPT.) 2017, ATHENS, GREECE]

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13th Conference of the European Sociological Association

(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities

Athens, Greece, 29 Aug. – 01 Sept. 2017

Submission Type / Research Network/Research Stream: RN35 – Sociology of Migration
“I have a bad job and I’m alone here, but I’m not even thinking of going back home!” The Impact of Entrapment in Precarious, Low-Status Work and the Shattering of Familial and Community Networks of Solidarity on the Decision of Migrants to Return in their Origin Countries via the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme: Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Afghans in Greece in Times of Crisis
 
Theodoros Fouskas1, Fotini-Maria Mine2
Organisation(s): 
1: PhD, Sociologist, Lab. Assistant, Department of Social Work, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece;
2: MSc in Sociology of European Law, Lund University, SwedenTopics: RN35_a – General Session
 
Abstract
Why do migrants stay in precarious, low-status/low-wage jobs for extended periods? Can they leave these jobs and enter the formal labor market? If not, do they want to return to their origin country? Since 2010, the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme implemented by the International Organization for Migration in Greece has provided various forms of support to individuals wishing to return to their origin country including social and labor reintegration in their country. Focusing on results of in-depth interviews, the repercussions of entrapment in precarious, low-status/low wage jobs of migrants and how these affect their decision to return to their origin countries via the AVRR programme during the economic crisis in Greece are examined. Regardless of the socioeconomic conditions in their origin country, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghan workers’ decision is negatively affected due to prolonged stay and isolation in such jobs and specific occupations with low or zero social and labor mobility, thus promoting their entrapment in precarious working conditions and their identification with the characteristics of these occupations. Prompted and entrapped by ethnic, racial and gender division of labor, interviewee migrant workers are alienated from primary and secondary solidarity groups and ties related to their origin county, i.e. family, community associations and compatriots, and develop indifferent attitudes towards them. They act in an atomistic manner, form materialistic beliefs, have low self-perceptions and expectations for social advancement and feelings of pessimism for themselves and deal with their social and work related problems alone, yet are not willing to participate in the AVRR programme.
Citation: Fouskas, T., and Mine, F-M. (2017) “I have a bad job and I’m alone here, but I’m not even thinking of going back home!” The Impact of Entrapment in Precarious, Low-Status Work and the Shattering of Familial and Community Networks of Solidarity on the Decision of Migrants to Return in their Origin Countries via the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme: Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Afghans in Greece in Times of Crisis”, paper presented at the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, entitled: (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, 31 Aug. (29 Aug.-01 Sept.) 2017, Athens, Greece (http://esa13thconference.eu/).