Outward migration from Greece during the crisis
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Speaker
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Lois Labrianidis, Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments, Greek Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism; Professor of Economic Georgraphy, University of Macedonia;
Manolis Pratsinakis, Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Macedonia; Research Fellow, Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam
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Chair
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Dr Spyros Economides
Hellenic Observatory Director; Associate Professor, International Relations and European Politics, LSE
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Date
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Tuesday, 22 November 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
Although considerable research is being carried out on the phenomenon of immigration to Greece, there is a notable lack of scientific attention on the recent resurgence of emigration at times of recession and austerity. Aiming to partly fill in this gap, in our presentation we will contextualize the recent resurgence of emigration within Greece’s changing and complexifying migratory landscape. In so doing, and drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, we will describe the magnitude, dynamics and main destinations of the current crisis-driven emigration and outline its demographic makeup. Finally, we will provide evidence on the multiplicity of migration trajectories and discuss the prospect of return and the potential of the development of transnational economic ties between Greece and its highly skilled emigrants.
This research seminar will present the results of the third project which took part in the 2014 National Bank of Greece Research Call.
A GreeSE paper by Lois Labrianidis and Manolis Pratsinakis was also published after the end of the project: Greece's new Emigration at times of Crisis, no.99, May 2016.
Biographies
Lois Labrianidis is Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments Greek Ministry of Economy, Development & Tourism and Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Macedonia Greece and head of the Regional Development and Planning Research Unit.
He is an economic geographer (BA – Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, MA -Sussex, Ph.D. -LSE) and has done research and published on topics such as industrial location, the spatial aspects of subcontracting, the economic implications of educational infrastructure on their locality, development of rural areas, rural entrepreneurship, delocalization of economic activities, international migration.
His scholarly publications include 12 books: (1993) Provincial universities in Greece (in Greek); (2001) Albanian immigrants in Thessaloniki (co-authored) (in Greek); (2001) Economic geography (in Greek); (2004) (editor) The future of Europe’s Rural Periphery (in English); (2008) (editor) The Moving Frontier: The Changing Geography of Production in Labour Intensive Industries (in English); (2008) (co-editor) Cities on the Verge: Thessaloniki in a Process of Change (in Greek). (2011) Investing in leaving: The Greek case of international migration of professionals (in Greek) and (2016) (co-editor) Spatial Development and Human capabilities (in Greek).
Manolis Pratsinakis is a Marie Curie IF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macedonia, Greece, studying the new crisis-driven Greek emigration and a visiting research Fellow at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. He previously worked as a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He has done research and published on migration, ethnicity and everyday nationhood. Manolis has studied Geography and Sociology (with honors) and completed his PhD in 2013 in Anthropology. His MA studies were supported by a Huygens scholarship from Nuffic and his PhD research by a postgraduate IKY scholarship.
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