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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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[UPDATED] The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

When the first edition of this booklet was published in spring 2014, few people could have predicted that TTIP would soon become one of the hottest political topics in Europe. TTIP has become a key political issue in many countries, with growing media interest feeding off public fear at the substantial dangers that the agreement […]

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