Regional Focus: Greece

Blog posts & press:

*"A Doctor’s Story: Inside the ‘Living Hell’ of Moria Refugee Camp," The Guardian, 9 Feb. 2020 [text]

Greece: "Floating Wall" to Stop Refugees Puts Lives at Risk (Amnesty International, Jan. 2020) [text]

Greece Denies Healthcare to Seriously Ill Refugee Children on Lesbos (MSF, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Greece Sends around 30 Migrants a Day Back to Turkey," InfoMigrants, 27 Jan. 2020 [text]
- See also related DW article and UNHCR infographic.

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 4,432 in 2020; Deaths Reach 68. Focus on Greece (IOM, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related InfoMigrants post.

"'Moria is a hell': New Arrivals Describe Life in a Greek Refugee Camp," The Guardian, 17 Jan. 2020 [text]

"On Greece's Kos, Asylum Seekers Complain of Inhumane Conditions and Neglect," The New Humanitarian, 16 Jan. 2020 [text]

"The Problem with Migrants Camps," Vox EUROP, 18 Jan. 2020 [text]

*UNHCR Calls for Decisive Action to End Alarming Conditions on Aegean Islands (UNHCR, Feb. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Country Report: Greece, Refugee Protection Regimes Working Paper Series 3 (RESPOND Project, Jan. 2020) [text]

Filling the Gap: Global Civil Society and the Motivation of Volunteers in Greece during the Refugee Crisis, 2015-2017, Thesis (Witten/Herdecke University, 2019) [text]

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 32, spec. issue no. 1 (Dec. 2019) [contents]
- The theme is "New Perspectives on the European Refugee Crisis. An Empirical Review." "The current Special Issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies provides new evidence about refugees’ situation in first-reception and final-destination countries in Europe. It empirically reviews mental health screening and survey methodology tools for refugee populations, integration conditions and attitudes of host societies. It also provides a comparative overview of asylum policies and media discourses about the refugee crisis in Europe and highlights priorities for policy and future research." A number of articles focus on Greece.

"A Model of Protracted Suffering among Refugees on the Greek Islands: The Case of Chios," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 8, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

No-Rights Zone: How People in Need of Protection are Being Denied Crucial Access to Legal Information and Assistance in the Greek Islands’ EU ‘Hotspot’ Camps (Oxfam, Dec. 2019) [text]

Resource:

Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean (University of the Aegean) [access]
- "The objective of the Observatory is the systematic and comprehensive recording of multiple dimensions of the refugee and migration crisis, both historically and on a daily basis: demographic, economic, institutional, political, religious, and cultural. We are particularly interested in highlighting 'from below' the perspectives of the diverse parties involved: migrants and refugees, local communities and humanitarian actors."

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (13 Dec. 2019)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (4 Dec. 2019)