By Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou
Annotation. This empirical research examines matters surrounding the mixing of immigrants in Greece, particularly in Thessaloniki, in addition to migrants in neighbouring nations, Albania and Bulgaria. The ebook means that immigrants' integration could be understood on the subject of broader techniques of social swap, that are more and more attached to international forces. The transformation of Greece right into a multicultural society has taken position in the course of a interval of transition and of accelerating publicity to the overseas setting. inside this context, Thessaloniki has develop into a brand new domestic for immigrants from the Balkans looking for new identities. Integration is noticeable as a multifaceted and dynamic procedure. the idea that of incorporation is seriously brought, with a purpose to examine either the methods during which migrants organise their lives within the host society and their structural, institutional and cultural stipulations. The analytical framework is outfitted upon an interdisciplinary process that takes into consideration assorted incorporation contexts: socio-political responses, the labour industry, housing and social area. a few extra components also are thought of, e.g. the composition of migrant populations, migratory styles and dynamics, the position of social networks, immigrants' thoughts. The e-book presents an empirical account of the immigrants' features, explaining the styles and typologies of immigrants' integration in Greece. "Immigrants" develop into a social class "constructed" through exclusionary mechanisms: restrictive immigration coverage, labour marketplace exploitation, xenophobia. even though, they do make a residing in Thessaloniki; their integration is topic to time. steadily, immigrants develop into natural components of the host society, which shapes, yet can also be being formed through migration. This identify will be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568736. This identify comes in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org. [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]
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Lastly, immigrants’ employment in the service sector appears to be of particular importance and the informal sector plays a crucial role in their economic integration. The transformation of Greece into a new destination for international migrants coincided with a series of parallel developments that have signalled processes of increasing exposure to global trends. In fact, migration can be seen as one of the factors indicating Greece’s particular experience of globalisation; other factors may include: LOCATING OUR CASE IN A WORLD OF CHANGE 45 – The redefinition of the regional position and role of Greece in the Balkans, in the advent of post-1989 developments in Eastern Europe and the former USSR.
How do globalisation forces affect given social formations and people in specific localities? g. g. Greece’s EU membership and the process of European integration, the Southern European developmental particularities, the new regional position of Greece in the post-1989 Balkan space). These issues are examined in the first few pages of the section that follows and they are revisited at the end of the thesis in Chapter 9. 2 The Greek case in international perspective Several characteristics of contemporary global and European migration can be observed in the Greek case (see Fassmann & Mu¨nz 1994; Castles & Miller 1998; Koser & Lutz 1998; Muus 2001).
Conflicts, famine and malnutrition (sub-Saharan Africa), demographic explosion and its consequences (China, India) and the debt crisis (Latin America) are the basic problems that less-developed countries are facing at present (Hettne 1990). Although some areas have experienced positive economic change, resulting in a rearrangement of their peripheral position within the world system31, in most cases, restructuring has altered production structures with distorting socio-economic effects. The reawakening of aggressive nationalisms and religious fundamentalisms has partly replaced previous ideo- 38 MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY GREECE logical paradigms; new oppressive regimes, wars and social conflicts in many areas exhibit few signs of a way out of this crisis.