https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:42:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/drivers-of-highly-skilled-mobility-from-southern-europe-escaping-the-crisis-and-emancipating-oneself/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/drivers-of-highly-skilled-mobility-from-southern-europe-escaping-the-crisis-and-emancipating-oneself/ Continued]]> Since the outbreak of the crisis in Southern Europe, young highly educated Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Greeks have been taking their talents and expertise to other countries in search of a better quality of life and career prospects. This paper explores the characteristics of these new emigrants, the reasons for which they are leaving, and whether these reasons are shaped by the economic crisis, by pre-crisis grievances, or by other factors. We analyse original data from 6377 questionnaires collected in 4 countries through an e-survey we ran in 2013. We refer to the existing literature on the drivers of highly skilled emigration and the (un)employment situation in the four aforementioned Southern European countries which have been hardest hit by the economic crisis. We suggest that while gender is not important, age, marital status, education and satisfaction with current employment (both income related and with regard to future prospects) are important factors predicting emigration. Non-economic factors, notably career opportunities, quality of life and future prospects supersede all other considerations in the decision to emigrate for these highly educated Europeans.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/greek-migration-policy-in-the-2010s-europeanization-tensions-at-a-time-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:30 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greek-migration-policy-in-the-2010s-europeanization-tensions-at-a-time-of-crisis/ Continued]]> During the past two years Greek migration policy has seen important developments concerning the legislative framework for irregular migration/asylum management and migrant integration. Given that several among these developments are related to the transposition of related EU directives, one obvious answer might be that of Europeanization: these developments had less to do with the Greek government’s plans about migration, rather they were the direct impact of Europeanization; Greece simply transposed relevant EU directives. I am arguing here for a more careful reading of the Europeanization effect which not only distinguishes the differential impact of Europeanization on policies and discourses, but also actually shows how Europeanization tendencies at different level can contrast one another. The findings of this paper contribute to a better understanding of Europeanization processes. They highlight that Europeanization involves also resistance to Europe especially at times of crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/voting-with-their-feet-highly-skilled-emigrants-from-southern-europe/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:30 +0000 http://arc.local/items/voting-with-their-feet-highly-skilled-emigrants-from-southern-europe/ Continued]]> In this article, the authors present new empirical data on highly skilled emigrants from two southern European countries, Italy and Greece, which have been particularly hit by the global financial and Eurozone crisis. The data have been generated by an e-survey conducted in late spring and summer 2013. Through analyzing the responses of Greek and Italian citizens who have chosen to emigrate, the authors present new insights on their educational backgrounds, the conditions that have motivated their decision to emigrate, and the way in which they have defined their migration project. It is argued that the decision to migrate is driven by a sense of severe relative deprivation as a result of the crisis and a deep frustration with the conditions in the home country. The crisis seems to have magnified the “push” factors that already existed in Italy and Greece and that now nurture this migration wave. At the same time, however, this migration is also framed within a more general perspective of a vision of life in which mobility and new experiences are valued positively and also seen as part of one’s professional identity.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/muslim-immigrants-and-the-greek-nation-theemergence-of-nationalist-intolerance/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/muslim-immigrants-and-the-greek-nation-theemergence-of-nationalist-intolerance/ Continued]]> Faced with claims for recognising religious diversity, liberal European democracies have shifted in the last 10 years towards a more restrictive view of integration. This paper seeks to make a contribution to this line of research on how European countries deal with migration-related ethnic and religious diversity today by investigating the case of a southern country, notably Greece. Greece is an interesting case to study: it has by now 20 years of experience as a host country, but still its migrant integration policies are under-developed. In addition Greece it is currently experiencing an acute economic crisis while irregular migration towards the country is on the rise. These developments have contributed to bringing migration on to centre stage in political discourse with a concomitant rise of racist and xenophobic discourses against migrants. This paper takes, as a case study, the public Muslim prayer that took place in several squares of Athens on 18 November 2010 as a peaceful protest against the fact that Athens still does not have a formal mosque. We use this event as an opportunity for interviewing social and political actors directly or indirectly involved in it on their views regarding migration, religious diversity and their accommodation in the Greek public space. We analyse their discourse on whether and under what conditions religious diversity, Islam in particular, should be tolerated or accepted in Greek society. We propose here the notion of ‘nationalist intolerance’ to make sense of Greek discourses and propose a dynamic understanding of tolerance and intolerance as concepts that do not emanate from abstract norms but are rather negotiated in specific contexts.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greek-crisis-and-european-modernity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-greek-crisis-and-european-modernity/ Continued]]> This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. By critically reviewing the ‘alternative’ path to modernization that Greece has taken, the authors question whether the current Greek economic and political-moral crisis is the resulting failure of this ‘alternative’ or ‘deviant’ modernization model or whether it is the result of a wider crisis in the dominant European economic and political modernity paradigm.

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