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Albanian Migration in Greece: Understanding Irregularity in a Time of Crisis.
- Source :
- European Journal of Migration & Law; 2017, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p12-33, 22p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The third decade of Albanian migration to Greece signalled a historical change in the human geography of Greece’s largest migrant group. The impact of the economic recession and the visa-free regime for Albanians entering the European Union shaped a new fluid reality for Albanian irregular migration. This paper explores the impact of the socio-economic transformation processes on the migrants’ legal status vis-à-vis irregular status and integration dynamics. The emerging mobility strategies are conceptualized as a migrants’ agency that overcome socio-economic barriers or policy restrictions and navigate them. This paper goes beyond the legality-irregularity dichotomy, suggesting it is the multidimensional ‘in-between’ space of semi-irregular status where apparently ‘irregular’ Albanians interact with various forms of agency. Our aim is to explore how the irregular/legal nexus developed within the Balkan in the specific context of Greece. The empirical analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 94 Albanians and 13 stakeholders in Greece and Albania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMIGRATION & immigration
ALBANIANS
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
STAKEHOLDERS
SOCIAL history
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1388364X
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Migration & Law
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121240901
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15718166-12342113