https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:42:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/migrating-from-pakistan-to-greece-re-visiting-agency-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/migrating-from-pakistan-to-greece-re-visiting-agency-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper focuses on migration from Pakistan to Greece in an attempt to uncover the dynamics of the regulation of irregular migration (and asylum-seeking) in Greece. It examines the factors, policies, and actors that influence the plans, actions, and decisions Pakistanis make before leaving their country and when arriving in Greece. After setting the background against which Pakistanis enter and settle in the country, we trace these migrants’ decision-making process throughout their movement based on a series of qualitative interviews. While a variety of actors and factors are at play in the way people move from the one country to the other, masculinity emerges as the framework within which these come together.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/albanian-migration-in-greece-understanding-irregularity-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/albanian-migration-in-greece-understanding-irregularity-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Continued]]> The third decade of Albanian migration to Greece signalled a historical change in the human geography of Greece’s largest migrant group. The impact of the economic recession and the visa-free regime for Albanians entering the European Union shaped a new fluid reality for Albanian irregular migration. This paper explores the impact of the socio-economic transformation processes on the migrants’ legal status vis-à-vis irregular status and integration dynamics. The emerging mobility strategies are conceptualized as a migrants’ agency that overcome socio-economic barriers or policy restrictions and navigate them. This paper goes beyond the legality-irregularity dichotomy, suggesting it is the multidimensional ‘in-between’ space of semi-irregular status where apparently ‘irregular’ Albanians interact with various forms of agency. Our aim is to explore how the irregular/legal nexus developed within the Balkan in the specific context of Greece. The empirical analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 94 Albanians and 13 stakeholders in Greece and Albania.

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