EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Panos Hatziprokopiou (2006). Globalisation, migration and socio-economic change in contemporary Greece. Processes of social incorporation of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants in Thessaloniki. IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP

Panos Hatziprokopiou (2006). Globalisation, migration and socio-economic change in contemporary Greece. Processes of social incorporation of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants in Thessaloniki. IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP

Introduction

The book provides an empirical account of the immigrants’ characteristics, explaining the patterns and typologies of immigrants’ integration in Greece. “Immigrants” become a social category “constructed” by exclusionary mechanisms: restrictive immigration policy, labour market exploitation, xenophobia.

However, they do make a living in Thessaloniki; their integration is subject to time. gradually, immigrants become organic elements of the host society, which shapes, but is also being shaped by migration.

Description

This empirical study examines issues surrounding the integration of immigrants in Greece, in particular in Thessaloniki, as well as looking at migrants in neighbouring countries, Albania and Bulgaria. The book suggests that immigrants’ integration should be understood in relation to broader processes of social change, which are increasingly connected to global forces.

The transformation of Greece into a multicultural society has taken place during a period of transition and of increasing exposure to the international environment. Within this context, Thessaloniki has become a new home for immigrants from the Balkans in search of new identities.

Background information

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

Methodology

It draws on field research which involved questionnaires, interviews and a range of secondary sources and employs an interdisciplinary analytical framework taking into account different but interconnected integration spheres: socio-political responses, the labour market, housing and social space.

EU involvement

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme

Contact info

IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Karen Kraal (Communication Officer), tel. +31 (0)20 525 3659

Publication date

Project finished

//2006

Researcher

Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou is currently a Research Fellow in Social Policy at Middlesex University, London.

Article info
ISBN: 978 90 5356 873 6

Links

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Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration