From migration crisis to refugee crisis in Europe: Securitization priorities vs Integration policies?
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Speaker
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Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens; Visiting Research Fellow, Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London
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Chair
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Dr Rebecca Bryant
A.N. Hadjiyiannis Associate Professorial Research Fellow
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Date
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Monday, 18 January 2016
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, 1st floor, Cowdray House
European Institute, LSE
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Time
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18:00-19:30
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Poster
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Abstract
For the past six years Europe has been in the midst of the most severe recession since the Second World War. The size of migrant flows towards Europe has been escalating, leading to increasing concerns over the total number of migrants that Europe may host without triggering internal processes of social unrest.
The already existing migration crisis was recently paired with a refugee crisis that moved the European public opinion due to the astonishing number of deaths and more particularly of the deaths of children. Those ‘crises’ unveiled many issues that lurked in the relevant discussions in Europe, but most of all made clear that the southern and Southeast Europe bear the burden of being (for so long) the main gate of migrants and refugees to Europe.
The presentation’s objective was to uncover the perplexity of migration/refugee issues that seem to trouble Europe, while at the same time it toucjed upon the antinomies of EU migration and refugee policies. Professor Papadopoulos' analysis is from a southern European perspective and aimed at stressing the social and economic aspects rather than the political aspects of the theme.
Biography
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos has studied sociology in Greece (B.Sc. Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences) and in the UK (M.Sc [Econ], Department of Sociology, LSE) and holds a DPhil in Geography (University of Sussex). He has been a lecturer in the University of Ioannina and, currently, he is Professor of Rural Geography and Sociology in the Department of Geography at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece.
He has coordinated as project leader, and also worked as a senior researcher in, numerous research programmes financed by the European Commission and the Greek State. He has published a large number of papers in international journals and Greek academic journals. He has edited/ co-edited seven books (two of them were published by Ashgate Publishers in 1999 and 2010) and co-authored one book on Greek farming women.
Since the end of 1990s he has conducted numerous empirical research projects on rural immigration, migration flows and migrants’ integration in the labour market in Greece and southern Europe. Recently, he finished a research project (2011-2013) on the dynamics and the opportunities for the integration of African immigrants in the Greek host society.
Finally, he has been member of the Working Group on Migration attached to the Greek Prime Minister Office (Official Gazette (FEK) Issue 1650/25-08-2011).
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