https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/crime-and-economic-downturn-the-complexity-of-crime-and-crime-politics-in-greece-since-2009/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:20 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/crime-and-economic-downturn-the-complexity-of-crime-and-crime-politics-in-greece-since-2009/ Continued]]> Description and explanation of the relationship between economic downturn and crime have to date been limited by the narrow scope of criminal activity characteristically selected as a focus by pertinent criminological scholarship. Efforts to examine the relationship have overwhelmingly approached it through the prism of common property and violent offences, or, and to a lesser degree, white-collar crime. As a consequence, appreciation has been impeded of the existence and heightened political significance of diverse and complex connections between a wider array of forms of criminality during times of economic downturn. To demonstrate the value of such connections to the study of the relationship between economic downturn and crime, we draw on the contemporary experience of crisis-hit Greece, where the political importance of associations between corruption, common property and violent offences, and illicit political violence, has made them indispensable components of any account of the linkages between economic downturn and crime in the Greek context.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/domestic-violence-against-albanian-immigrant-women-in-greece-facing-patriarchy/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/domestic-violence-against-albanian-immigrant-women-in-greece-facing-patriarchy/ Continued]]> Immigration is becoming an increasingly important policy concern in Europe and in many other nations. Importantly, there is an ever-growing number of women who migrate, many of whom are undocumented. Violence against immigrant women is nearly impossible to estimate. However, immigrant women who are abused face multiple barriers to seeking legal protection from the abuse as a result of their migration status, their positions within family and the host country. This paper examines the issues related to intimate partner violence within the Albanian immigrant community in Greece. It explores how the situation in Greek society and the labor market (such as social policies, xenophobic attitudes, job segregation and the prevailing economic crisis) changed the traditional gender roles and distribution of the power within Albanian families and increased intimate partner violence (IPV). The study found evidence of an increase in IPV in the aftermath of the economic crisis, which could be explained by the ideology of familial patriarchy. Battered immigrant women also face challenges in the Greek criminal justice system, which is also influenced by patriarchal values, when they are seeking relief and assistance in cases of interpersonal violence.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/violence-and-extreme-right-activism-the-neo-nazi-golden-dawn-in-a-greek-rural-community/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:43 +0000 http://arc.local/items/violence-and-extreme-right-activism-the-neo-nazi-golden-dawn-in-a-greek-rural-community/ Continued]]> After years of marginal appeal in the electorate, Golden Dawn (GD), a hitherto minor grupuscule of the neo-fascist right, has experienced impressive and continuous electoral success in Greece since 2010. Ιn this paper, we focus on the micro-scale of local communities and explore how violence is used by a local activist in ways that attract sympathisers to GD. Employing ethnographic research in a rural community we observe an everyday rhetoric that gives GD a privileged position in the circulation of violence. We argue that, rather than being a collateral symptom of neo-fascist mobilisation, violence may under certain conditions be one of the strengths of extreme-right movements.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/illicit-tobacco-trade-in-greece-the-rising-share-of-illicit-consumption-during-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:39 +0000 http://arc.local/items/illicit-tobacco-trade-in-greece-the-rising-share-of-illicit-consumption-during-crisis/ Continued]]> The paper presents the tobacco black market in Greece, its structure and actors, and explores the financing and the financial management of illicit tobacco trade as a manifestation of organised crime. During the era of economic crisis (since 2008) there has been a significant surge in tobacco smuggling, especially in illicit cigarettes, either in illicit whites or counterfeit brands and legal brands. Additionally, hand-rolling tobacco (HRT) is the new trend and it is easily accessible, even online. Criminal organizations involved in tobacco smuggling are generally not confined by national borders, as they often create partnerships within and outside the EU either with individuals or with other networks. Their main and sometimes sole illegal activity is tobacco smuggling. They appear to be increasingly involved in the illegal market and they are divided into those that deal with the illegal importation and transfer of the tobacco from abroad to Greece or to other European markets, and those that deal exclusively with the selling of tobacco products in Greek markets. Finally, due to the increase of this transnational criminal phenomenon, the policy measures to tackle the tobacco smuggling must be oriented towards transnational cooperation.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/foreign-nationals-as-a-minority-group-in-the-criminal-justice-system-of-greece-from-offending-to-victimization-of-non-greek-population/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:23 +0000 http://arc.local/items/foreign-nationals-as-a-minority-group-in-the-criminal-justice-system-of-greece-from-offending-to-victimization-of-non-greek-population/ Continued]]> During the last two decades, the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in the Greek criminal justice system constitutes a critical issue. By exploring the available statistical data and relevant surveys, this article attempts to examine how, on the one hand, groups of non-Greek nationals fare at different stages of criminal justice within the broader social and political context and whether, on the other hand, the prejudice and stereotyping against the foreign population affects directly or indirectly the attitudes of stakeholders of social control and how this escalates, in extreme cases, into hostility, racism, and xenophobic violence against them during the years of crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/neo-nazism-and-neoliberalism-a-few-comments-on-violence-in-athens-at-the-time-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/neo-nazism-and-neoliberalism-a-few-comments-on-violence-in-athens-at-the-time-of-crisis/ Continued]]> The so‐called Greek crisis implies a rapid transition towards a regime of extreme neoliberalism, but it also implies the rise of the extreme Right. This article examines briefly the rise of Greek neo‐Nazism and a genealogy of its violence. It emphasizes the links between formal and informal violent state apparatuses, focusing on the paradigmatic turn of the form of governance in Greece towards authoritarianism and extreme‐Right wing discourses and practices.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/framing-urban-inequalities-racistmobilization-against-immigrants-in-athens/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:10 +0000 http://arc.local/items/framing-urban-inequalities-racistmobilization-against-immigrants-in-athens/ Continued]]> In the last few years local anti-immigration actions in the Greek capital seemed to deepen the wider racist discourse against immigrants. Collective racist actions were embedded in specific narratives about place and inequality. In this article, after a brief discussion of the socio-spatial transformations in the residential area of the Athens city-centre, we apply framing analysis in order to explore the strategic linkages between the rejection of immigrants and urban inequalities. We find that the localization of racism is framed in general visions about inequalities. Racial and social dimensions of inequalities are mixed and used in various, complex and interconnected ways. For these inequalities to be strategically used, the city space as a contested spatio-temporal entity is also involved.

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