The mapping of the child protection framework in Italy – or lack thereof – highlights how malpractices lead minors to social exclusion and even exploitation. The lack of clear guidelines, pathways, the stark incoherence between the legislative framework and the practices followed in day-today reality, the lack of an efficient guardianship system to guide the […]
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Children Cast Adrift – Comparative Report
The research “Children Cast Adrift: Exclusion and exploitation of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in Greece, Spain and Italy” sheds light on the darkest part of refugee management: unaccompanied minors. This comparative report captures information on the protection of unaccompanied minors in the European South and provides a critical account of national and European policies and their […]
Children Cast Adrift – Greece
The research “Children Cast Adrift: Exclusion and exploitation of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in Greece, Spain and Italy” sheds light on the darkest part of refugee management: unaccompanied minors. This report captures information on the protection of unaccompanied minors in the European South and provides a critical account of national and European policies and their implementation. […]
Anyone at home?
This study presents the current situation in the housing sector in Greece, after eight years of hard austerity policies, focusing especially on the period 2015-2019, a period of major changes. A period marked, inter alia, by the implementation and termination of the third memorandum, the escalation of refugee flows and the recovery of sectors of […]
The gendered aspects of the austerity regime in Greece: 2010 – 2017
This paper explores the gendered dimensions of the austerity policies implemented in Greece since 2010 in the context of the Economic Adjustment Programs and in particular their impact on the lives of women. The national studies on the effects of austerity on women commissioned by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung are devoted to exploring these developments in more detail. Under the […]
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Persistent Myths about Migration in Greece
The refugee flow of 2015 radically changed the terms of the public discussion about the subjects of migration and asylum. The previous dead ends of European policy were exacerbated by the large number of refugees who sought refuge and protection on European soil. Europe chose to form its policy based on numbers and not on […]
No direction home
One year after publication of the book The Coldest Summer, of which 18,500 copies have already been printed, the Greek Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is publishing No Direction Home, featuring the work of 30 Greek photographers that captures the refugee drama, the journey of the displaced from the war zones in Syria and […]
Migration politics and policies in the European Union
This study was commissioned to establish an overview of the history and present state of migration policies in the European Union. It coincides with a period in the EU where migration policy is at the core of the political conflicts that are determining the state and the development of the European project. The summer of […]
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The coldest summer
A working mother, a working father and two children who are forced to struggle to survive, to leave their homeland because it has become too dangerous, to abandon the life they knew as it had become unbearable, and leave their families behind in the pursuit of a life where they can think beyond the next […]
