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Chapter: The Sociology of Migration in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Barriers to Integration in Greece, Theodoros Fouskas, in Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic, Edited by Simone Maddanu, Emanuele Toscano, Routledge, 2024

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The Sociology of Migration in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Barriers to Integration in Greece

ByTheodoros Fouskas

BookInequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

1st Edition

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

Edited By Simone Maddanu, Emanuele ToscanoCopyright 2024

Edition1st Edition

First Published2024

ImprintRoutledge

Pages22

eBook ISBN9781003459682

ABSTRACT

0000-0003-0507-217X

Migrants have faced multiple challenges and vulnerabilities that must be considered when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter analyses the results of the comparative research project “Local Alliance for Integration” (LION/GSRI/University of West Attica/81018): “Migrant and refugee integration into local societies in times of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and Greece”, implementing a qualitative methodology. This chapter, via 32 in-depth interviews, analyses the experiences of migrants in Greece and the increased barriers towards their integration. The multiple ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified vulnerability on migrants, similarities and differences that occurred, and evidence of the ongoing obstacles they encountered during the pandemic, are presented.