https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:07:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/solidaritys-tensions-informality-sociality-and-the-greek-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:36 +0000 http://arc.local/items/solidaritys-tensions-informality-sociality-and-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> During times of crisis, economic practices organized on principles of reciprocity often arise. Greece, with the vibrant sociality pertaining to its ‘solidarity economy’, is a case in point. This article is premised on the idea that crises make contradictions in societies more visible. I suggest that a central contradiction is at play in Greece between informal and formalized economic activity, as demonstrated in the tension between the fluid features of ‘solidarity’ networks and the formalization proposed or imposed on them by state institutions. In Thessaloniki, the informal solidarity economy proves to be more efficient than the work of NGOs. Arguing that such economic activities are built around the rise of new forms of sociality rather than a tendency toward bureaucratization, the article contributes to anthropological understandings of solidarity and welfare, as well as their relation.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/economic-crisis-and-migrants-employment-a-view-from-greece-in-comparative-perspective/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:20 +0000 http://arc.local/items/economic-crisis-and-migrants-employment-a-view-from-greece-in-comparative-perspective/ Continued]]> This paper explains and evaluates the effects of the developing crisis on the mobility of third-country nationals in Greece and other South European political economies. In doing so it explores the mobility of these migrants within the context of the informal economic activity in which many such migrants have been involved. The paper exposes the distance separating the law and the actual enforcement of fundamental employment- and mobility-related rights of irregular migrants in Greece and other southern European countries. It identifies the significance of the familistic welfare regime of the European South in framing migrants’ characteristics and their consequent mobility in the region. The article argues that the familistic welfare regime of the host country is inextricably linked to migrants’ employment trajectories and fundamentally affects the strategies that migrants have developed in order to protect themselves in lieu of effective rights regulation.

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