https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:41:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/back-to-basics-stateless-women-and-children-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/back-to-basics-stateless-women-and-children-in-greece/ Continued]]> European societies are effectively witnessing a growing refugee crisis in tandem with the ongoing economic crisis in recent years. Within this climate, migration is at risk of being seen more than ever before as an additional ‘burden’ that societies have to ‘carry’ and it is sometimes even questioned why it should be accommodated or respected at all. This paper draws on empirical research from Greece to examine changing European societies, with a particular focus on how the crisis is affecting the most vulnerable members of society, the stateless children and women migrants and refugees.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/economic-crisis-and-migration-visual-representations-of-difference-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:45 +0000 http://arc.local/items/economic-crisis-and-migration-visual-representations-of-difference-in-greece/ Continued]]> This article develops a perspective on African migrant integration, reflecting on the ‘visualization’ of migrant experience. It formulates some considerations on how integration of migrants can be captured, drawing on empirical material from street photography in modern-day Greece. The main research question concerns the role of visual images as sites for the construction and depiction of social difference. In that sense, their meaning goes beyond their content and they act as visual representations of discourses. The paper addresses this issue through a focus on local aspects of integration of sub-Saharan African migrants in the city centre of Athens. Specifically it looks at three themes related to discourses on migrant integration in today’s economic crisis: (1) the physical and social environment of marginalization, (2) the migrant body and (3) the fear of the migrant. On the basis of the findings a synthesis is attempted of several parallel existing representations in discourses about African migration. The synthesis betrays the ongoing struggle between, on the one hand, the dominant structures that the state creates to deal with their presence and, on the other, the migrant strategies for adaptation and inclusion, which in turn sustain the mechanisms and form integration takes in this context.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-digital-golden-dawn-emergence-of-a-nationalist-racist-digital-mainstream/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-digital-golden-dawn-emergence-of-a-nationalist-racist-digital-mainstream/ Continued]]> Eugenia Siapera and Mariangela Veikou examine the rising fascist and racist political online networks in Greece. They demonstrate that the kind of online presence that the Golden Dawn and its affiliates have acquired is the result of a mutual accommodation and adjustment amongst the Golden Dawn, digital corporations, the Greek state and civil society. Far from having been excluded or marginalised, Golden Dawn rhetorics, practices and discourses have adjusted to and infiltrated the digital mainstream.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/images-of-crisis-and-opportunity-a-study-of-african-migration-to-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/images-of-crisis-and-opportunity-a-study-of-african-migration-to-greece/ Continued]]> The economic crisis in Greece is becoming a way of life and it is affecting, among other things, the way the Greek society views immigration. Greek people are waking up to the reality that immigrants in the streets of big cities would not go back. The kind of economic state of emergency in need of all sorts of austerity measures the Greek society is entering, shockingly, brings about the fear even in liberal minds that the country cannot provide for all. In this paper I draw from my own newly conducted ethnographic study to explore two interconnected themes: the study of local aspects of integration of Sub-Saharan African migrants in the city center of Athens, Greece and the use of photographic images in ethnographic research. More specifically, the paper discusses the representations of difference via a series of contemporary street photographs depicting everyday life instances of African migrants in the city center of Athens. It thus creates a visual narrative of metropolitan life, which forms the basis for a discussion on three themes related to discourses on migrant integration in light of today’s economic crisis: a) the physical and social environment of marginalization, b) the migrant body, and c) the fear of the migrant.

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