Asylum Seekers, Hotspot Approach and Anti-Social Policy Responses in Greece (2015–2017)

Between Reception, Legal Stay and Integration in a Changing Migration Landscape in Greece

“…The statement has been criticized as being legally problematic, impractical to implement, and in contravention of refugee law (Amnesty International 2017; Kourachanis 2018). The statement, without being a convention of the Union with a third country, from a legal aspect introduces a host of derogations from the EU regulatory framework (The Greek Ombudsman 2017).…”

“…Although the EU-Turkey Statement is not related in a direct way to issues of asylum seekers' integration into the labor market, many scholars comment that it provides a preparatory stage for their deployment in low-status sectors (Kourachanis 2018;Xypolytas 2017). The unfavorable living conditions of asylum seekers in hotspots and camps risks making them willing to take up any job and any employment relationship and hence being more vulnerable to exploitation.…”

“…Despite the formulation of an institutional framework that gives asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection access to the Greek labor market, the reality is that these people remain mostly in the camps, with only a minority living in housing structures (Niemann and Zaun 2017;The Greek Ombudsman 2017;Kourachanis 2018). Their integration into the Greek labor market is thus extremely difficult in practice.…”

Racialization in nursing: Rediscovering Antonio Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony and subalternity

“…Within health and nursing education, racialization maintains or replicates unequal relationships between the privileged and the marginalized (Beavis et al, 2015). Racialization has and continues to affect the health outcomes of immigrant and refugee groups in Europe (Biro, 2018; Bruneau et al, 2017; Hamed et al, 2020; Kourachanis, 2018; Nielsen et al, 2018; Sezgin, 2018; Zalewska‐Puchala et al, 2020), Canada (Edge & Newbold, 2013; Ghahari et al, 2019; Guruge et al, 2018; McKeary & Newbold, 2010; Pottie et al, 2015) and Indigenous peoples (Beavis et al, 2015; Blanchet Garneau et al, 2018). Structural violence carries a high risk of morbidities such as poor mental health, premature births, low birthweights, precarious living and housing conditions (Krieger, 2014).…”

The Process of Education Policy for Refugees within a Schedule to Promote Democracy

“…The issue cannot be addressed on the basis of autonomous actions and uncontrollable plan implementations. This would be conducive to building isolated settings, reinforcing administrative choices, while enfeebling personal interaction, ideologies and social patterns [20]. Objectives and attitudes must unfold within a setting distinctive of interactive processes in which the inventive spirit of performing carriers, namely the NGOs, will activate and deactivate implementation plans within an open revision process in which the local community, as institutional carrier, participates.…”