ARTICLE Refugees in Greece: the Greeks as ‘refugees’ Aspasia Velissariou Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece ABSTRACT The state of economic emergency under which Greece has been put for the past eight years throws into relief the basic antinomy inherent in democracy. This pertains to the exercise of national sovereignty on the basis of borders whose safe- guarding, however, implements a network of state practices of control and selection of populations both ‘within’ and ‘out- side’. In
Introduction In the summer of 2021, catastrophic wildfires across Greece burned approximately 1.2 million acres of forest. Unfortunately, both wildfires and floods are not new phenomena either in Southern Europe or in other parts of the world, such as California in the US, Germany, Siberia and the Amazon rainforest in South America. Undoubtedly, climate change is more severe and rapid. Yet, when combined with insufficient and/or late intervention by the state during disasters, climate change results in ecological catastrophes and the deaths of people. Greek
97 SIX Acquiring work experience for vocational education graduates in Greece Alexandra Koronaiou, George Alexias, Alexandros Sakellariou and George Vayias Introduction The social, economic and working environment in Greece is defined by volatility and insecurity. The programme ‘An Integrated Intervention for Connecting Vocational Schools Graduates with the Labour Market’ was a cooperative action for addressing the issue of youth unemployment. The initiative was deployed in the eight Convergence Regions of Greece: Eastern Macedonia and Thrace; Epirus
445 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 3 • no 3 • 445–53 • © Policy Press 2015 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015X14417170590862 voices from the frontline The refugee crisis in Samos, Greece Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, chrishandala@hotmail.com key words refugees • Greece In recent weeks there have been increasing numbers of refugees – mainly from Syria but also from Afghanistan and Africa – coming to Samos in Greece. For the refugees already here and those who will be arriving over the
337Reviewing the role and structure of pensions in national contextGender and the politics of the 1990–92 pension reforms in Greece Policy & Politics vol 35 no 2 • 337–52 (2007) © The Policy Press, 2007 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: pension reform • Greece • Gender identity Final submission September 06 • Acceptance September 06 Gender and the politics of the 1990–92 pension reforms in Greece Athina Vlachantoni English This article aims to illuminate the gender dimension of the pension reform debate in Greece between 1990 and 1992. Based on the 1990
43 THREE Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece Manos Matsaganis Introduction One of the most surprising features of the social situation in Greece over the past few years has been the almost complete failure of the social safety net to cope with the fallout from the recession, the most severe in the euro area. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that the ‘supply’ of social protection in the country fell just as the ‘demand’ – that is, the need – for it increased dramatically. During 2007–13, the Greek economy
69 3 Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’ Joshua Bowsher Introduction By 2015, the harsh economic austerity measures enforced upon Greece by the ‘Troika’ – made up of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) – in return for bailout loans designed to keep the country afloat had resulted in widespread impoverishment for the Greek people. Between 2009- 14 severe material deprivation in Greece rose from 11% to 21.5% of the population, and the poorest 10% of
31 Greek social work and the never-ending crisis of the welfare state Vasilios Ioakimidis and Dimitra-Dora Teloni Amid the unprecedented financial crisis in Greece, which began unfolding in 2010, a major radical reform of the welfare state was implemented. This reform was presented, by both mainstream academics and politicians, as a ‘painful yet necessary’ step due to the broader extraordinary sociopolitical circumstances that can only be compared to a ‘state of emergency’. In this article we argue that, despite the dominant rhetoric about the urgency of
( 2005 : 2038) advocate: ‘[W]hen the economic growth engine starts to stutter, formal distribution mechanisms begin to fail … new social forces develop and give rise to alternative institutions and mechanisms of solidarity and redistribution as a means of addressing the failures of official institutions’. Most of these collective responses are embraced in the civil society sector and are most evident especially in Southern European countries facing severe recessionary conditions such as Greece, Portugal and Spain ( Conill et al, 2012 ; Sotiropoulos, 2014 ; Baumgarten
111 Analysing the health transition SIX Analysing the health transition: what the Greek case tells us about the social determinants of health Mick Carpenter Introduction Most research into and discussion of the social determinants of health inequalities has tended to generalise from the experience of advanced capitalist countries. As a counterpoint, this chapter focuses on Greece as a southern European society that took a distinct route to modernity, and along the way radically improved the health status of its people.1 This is an interesting topic in its own
