https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:07:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/i-followed-the-flood-a-gender-analysis-of-the-moral-and-financial-economies-of-forced-migration/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/i-followed-the-flood-a-gender-analysis-of-the-moral-and-financial-economies-of-forced-migration/ Continued]]> What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this study, including those of male refugees and those making crossings outside of the context of a family unit. The analysis is theoretically situated at the intersection of critical humanitarianism and the politics of vulnerability, and rooted in debates about the feminisation of refugees and corresponding protection agendas. A key contribution of this work is the ethnographic tracing of how refugees embody these politics along their journeys. In closing, the paper sketches out some implications of the findings for humanitarian practice and identifies avenues for further research.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/diasporic-youth-identities-of-uncertainty-and-hope-second-generation-albanian-experiences-of-transnational-mobility-in-an-era-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:43 +0000 http://arc.local/items/diasporic-youth-identities-of-uncertainty-and-hope-second-generation-albanian-experiences-of-transnational-mobility-in-an-era-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Continued]]> This paper explores various dimensions of ‘gender’ and ‘mobility’ among immigrant youth from a transnational perspective in an era of economic crisis. The extent and parameters of continuity, contestation and change in migrant youth identities are analysed and we suggest that neither gender nor identity are stable categories but are embedded in sociocultural particularities both in the country of residence (Greece) but also in the country of origin (Albania). Through in-depth interviews with 52 participants, all second-generation Albanian immigrants in Greece born to two Albanian parents, the paper addresses youth identification in relation to gendered representations of belonging. The narrative accounts that we have selected and analysed reflect the emotional challenges, constraints and creativity of Albanian youth.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/volunteering-mothers-engaging-the-crisis-at-a-soup-kitchen-in-northern-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:40 +0000 http://arc.local/items/volunteering-mothers-engaging-the-crisis-at-a-soup-kitchen-in-northern-greece/ Continued]]> The ‘Bank of Love’ is a soup kitchen administered by the Orthodox Church in the town of Xanthi, Northern Greece. Currently operating amidst economic crisis, the Bank of Love occupies approximately fifty volunteering women who cook and distribute 150 meals to the poor daily. Despite the widespread proliferation of the egalitarian and counter-hegemonic notion of ‘solidarity’, these female cooks do not subscribe to its values. Crucially, however, neither do they embrace the hierarchical idioms of ‘philanthropy’, often understood to occupy the other side of the spectrum. In an effort to depart from analytical dichotomies and designatory taxonomies, which might label the cook’s work as acts of either solidarity or philanthropy, this article uses the multivalent and open-ended concept of ‘engagement’. I pay particular attention to two radically different ‘modalities of engagement’. The first modality is contingent on notions of domesticity and occupies these cooks through their identities as women, housemistresses, and mothers. The second modality appropriates the discourses of volunteerism to transform these women into autonomous agents who enter the public sphere in the name of a good cause. I argue that engaging with ‘engagement’ may not only facilitate an understanding of processes of social transformation vis-à-vis articulations of gender, space, and affect, but also offer insights into the construction of the very object(s) of engagement. The Bank of Love bespeaks of a crisis symbolically constructed through the nexus and obligations of kinship, and of a crisis that provides space for the performance of autonomy and empowerment.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/is-the-crisis-in-athens-also-gendered-facets-of-access-and-invisibility-in-everyday-public-spaces/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:30 +0000 http://arc.local/items/is-the-crisis-in-athens-also-gendered-facets-of-access-and-invisibility-in-everyday-public-spaces/ Continued]]> As the Greek crisis deepens and ‘recovery’ is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly ‘central’ understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts, gender is thought to pertain to a ‘special’, that is, less important, matter which may detract from the ‘main problem’. The paper draws together a series of stories of ordinary women who have experienced deep changes in their everyday lives as a result of austerity policies (unemployment, precarity, salary and pension cuts, shrinking social rights, mounting everyday violence). It argues that emphasis on this scale ‘closest in’, linked in multiple ways to many other scales (local, national, European, international), reveals areas of knowledge that would otherwise remain in the dark; and that connecting concrete bodies with global processes enriches our understandings with more complex and more flexible variables and informs the ‘big pictures’ (in this case about the Greek crisis)—and not only the reverse.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/impact-of-economic-crisis-and-other-demographic-and-socioeconomic-factors-on-self-rated-health-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:23 +0000 http://arc.local/items/impact-of-economic-crisis-and-other-demographic-and-socioeconomic-factors-on-self-rated-health-in-greece/ Continued]]> Background: Financial crisis and worsened socio-economic conditions are associated with greater morbidity, less utilization of health services and deteriorated population’s health status. The aim of the present study was to investigate the determinants of self-rated health in Greece. Methods: Two national cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2006 and 2011 were combined, and their data were pooled giving information for 10 572 individuals. The sample in both studies was random and stratified by gender, age, degree of urbanization and geographic region. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the impact of several factors on self-rated health. Results: Poor self-rated health was most common in older people, unemployed, pensioners, housewives and those suffering from chronic disease. Men, individuals with higher education and those with higher income have higher probability to report better self-rated health. Furthermore, the probability of reporting poor self-rated health is higher at times of economic crisis. Conclusion: Our findings confirm the association of self-rated health with economic crisis and certain demographic and socio-economic factors. Given that the economic recession in Greece deepens, immediate and effective actions targeting health inequalities and improvements in health status are deemed necessary.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/detecting-the-gender-dimension-of-the-choice-of-the-teaching-profession-prior-to-the-economic-crisis-and-imf-international-monetary-fund-memorandum-in-greece-a-case-study/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/detecting-the-gender-dimension-of-the-choice-of-the-teaching-profession-prior-to-the-economic-crisis-and-imf-international-monetary-fund-memorandum-in-greece-a-case-study/ Continued]]> The purpose of this research paper is the investigation of , and the sociological approach to, and interpretation of
the attitudes of male and female students in the University Department of Primary Education (U.D.P.E.) at the
University of Patras in Greece, before the enforcement of the IMF Memorandum, concerning the choice of the
teaching profession and the corresponding scientific field of studies. In particular, we will be concerned with the
following research questions: a) what are the attitudes of male and female students regarding the reasons for the
choice of the particular scientific field and b) What is the influence of the gender of the male and female students
of the U.D.P.E. at the University of Patras as far as the choice of studies in the particular scientific field is
concerned. The most significant findings of the work reveal that in the particular University Department female
students are overrepresented in percentage terms, a fact which demonstrates the ‘feminizing’ of the Department
in question. It also became apparent that the educational and professional choice of the female students in the
particular University department is guided by their gender, which directs their practice. Finally, the prospect of
immediate and certain professional employment which studies in the field of teaching in Greece promised,
before the appearance of the economic crisis and the enforcement of the austerity measures, emerged as the most
significant factor in the choice of the teaching profession by both sexes.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/economic-shock-therapy-in-the-eurozone-the-greek-case/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:15 +0000 http://arc.local/items/economic-shock-therapy-in-the-eurozone-the-greek-case/ Continued]]> Lois Woestman writing in May 2012 examines how, over the past two years, Greece has been undergoing economic shock therapy not unlike that undertaken by many countries in the Global South/Arab world. She argues that in the Greek case the EC institutions have been even more austere than the IMF. The impacts are similar to those in other adjusting countries: widening class, gender, non-citizen/citizen gaps; growing poverty and hopelessness – as well as protest. Greeks have been relying on older survival strategies, but also new ‘alternative’ economic activities intertwined with new notions of citizenship. She suggests that Greece – Europe – stands before a choice between the continued mono-focus on austerity, which will bring down the Euro and Europe, or a return to more equally distributed, growth and social solidarity.

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