Papers by Stefania Kalogeraki
Citizens and the Crisis, 2018
In the context of the recent global economic crisis, Greece has been most severely affected exper... more In the context of the recent global economic crisis, Greece has been most severely affected experiencing the most acute recession in its modern history. Despite crisis’ devastating impacts on people’s lives, one of the most positive developments involves the increasing trend of citizens’ volunteering in social solidarity networks (such as food banks, social medical centres, time banks, etc.) providing alternative ways of enduring day-to-day difficulties under hard economic times. The present study drawing on a hybrid approach of social and political attributes portrays the profiles of citizens volunteering in social solidarity networks. The findings shed light on a distinct facet of the Greek recession reflecting some positive actions which individuals have taken up as a result of the negative conditions generated by the economic crisis.
Youth in Central and Eastern Europe
During the last decades, the number of demonstrations as well as of demonstrators has significant... more During the last decades, the number of demonstrations as well as of demonstrators has significantly increased in most Western European countries. Some scholars support that protesting has become so widespread leading to the ‘normalization’ of the demonstrators. Overall research examining the ‘normalization thesis’ of street youth protest by analyzing representative datasets is extremely scarce. The chapter by analyzing youth-over-sampled survey data collected as part of the EURYKA project examines key socioeconomic determinants in participating in demonstrations among Greek young adults aged 18-34 years old. Greece is an exceptionally interesting case study to examine the ‘normalization thesis’ of youth protesting as the recent recession and its severe socioeconomic impacts triggered an exceptional wave of protest mobilization where Greek youth was one of the main protest claimants. The findings indicate that the socioeconomic determinants under study, such as gender, educational at...
Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022
Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022
Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022
Studies on the relationship between youth, and political participation argue that young adults to... more Studies on the relationship between youth, and political participation argue that young adults today demonstrate a shift in their political repertoire of actions from institutionalized to non-institutionalized modes of political participation and online activism. However, only scarce research evidence exists on political participation patterns and their main socio-economic determinants among urban youth and their rural and semi-urban counterparts. Using youth-over sampled survey data collected as part of the EYRYKA project the chapter examines spatial patterns of youth political participation and inequalities in urban, semi-urban and rural areas in Greece. The findings unveil significant associations between youth’s institutionalized political participation, online political activism and their place of residence. Furthermore, young adults similarly engage in different modes of non-institutionalized political participation in the three regions under study. Disconfirming our expectations the results do not provide a coherent pattern showing socio-economic inequalities to be particularly important in shaping political participation among urban youth compared to their counterparts in semi-urban and rural settings. The chapter’s findings contribute to related studies on the spatial dimension of youth political participation and call for further research on an important issue that has barely been examined.
Journal of Health and Social Sciences, 2019
Introduction: The aim of this paper is to explore individual-level determinants of health inequal... more Introduction: The aim of this paper is to explore individual-level determinants of health inequalities across three European countries (Sweden, Greece and Poland) with different welfare systems and differently affected by the recent economic crisis. Methods: The data derived from an original cross-national survey conducted in the context of the EU-funded LIVEWHAT project. The Chi-Square Test of Independence was used to examine potential differences in specific demographic traits, in socio-economic status and living conditions as well as in bridging and bonding social capital between individuals reporting poor health across Sweden, Greece and Poland. Binary logistic regression models were used to predict poor self-rated health based on the aforementioned predictors in the three countries under study. Results: Poor self-rated health was more prevalent in Poland (42.8%), the lowest prevalence rate was in Sweden (30.4%) followed by Greece (31.9%). The Chi-Square Test of Independence ind...
Since 2008 Greece has faced an unprecedented economic crisis with dramatic impacts on individuals... more Since 2008 Greece has faced an unprecedented economic crisis with dramatic impacts on individuals’ lives. Under the burden of recession many local communities all over the country have been mobilized to protest against austerity policies as well as to collectively respond to the crisis’ detrimental consequences on individuals’ living conditions. The Greek solidarity and social support movement becomes visible in the establishment of new local-based citizen-run health clinics, food banks, ‘without middlemen’ fresh products distribution networks, cooperative social groceries etc. Alongside the expansion of such alternative forms of solidarity, formal and institutional agencies like Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), local authorities and the Church organize several social support actions in order to assist people in need (Sotiropoulos 2014; Sotiropoulos / Bourikos 2014). Citizens’ participation in solidarity activities during crisis is a crucial element not only in terms of accomp...
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018
In the last decades, Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has become an everyday practice for an i... more In the last decades, Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has become an everyday practice for an increasing number of citizens, and the SSE sector has been constantly expanding. Particularly, during hard economic times, SSE has acted as a viable economic alternative and as a means to support vulnerable social groups, hit by the recession. However, SSE does not merely act as an emergency actor during harsh economic times, but also as a form of resistance to neoliberal dominance and as a tool of empowerment, transformation and social change. This paper, using quantitative data from the LIVEWHAT project, ex-plores SSE organisations in Greece, as one of the European countries most severely affected during the recent global financial crisis. The results, which are indicative of the Greek SSE sector during the period under study, shed light on the role of the recession as one of the main triggers for the recent expansion of SSE organisations that are often less formally organised, and prim...
This panel focuses on collective responses organized to address social, economic and political co... more This panel focuses on collective responses organized to address social, economic and political concerns and hardships due to the retrenchment of social policies in European countries, during the periods of the global financial crisis and the refugee crisis of 2015. Its four papers offer fresh systematic, empirical data and findings on Alternative Action Organizations and Transnational Solidarity Organizations, based on research carried out in the context of the EU-funded projects LIVEWHAT (www.livewhat.unige.ch/) and TransSOL, (www.transsol.eu/).
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2017
In the context of the recent global financial crisis Greece has faced an unprecedented recession ... more In the context of the recent global financial crisis Greece has faced an unprecedented recession with devastating impacts on individuals' lives echoed in record unemployment and poverty rates. Greek society has collectively responded by providing social support to those in need through the mobilization of social movement organizations, local authorities, different associations, the Orthodox Church etc. The chapter presents the findings of a study applying the quantitative approach of event analysis and based on a community resilience framework explores social support activity including soup kitchens, free distribution of clothes and other basic products, free health care, educational services in a Greek urban society, i.e. Chania. The results unveil the escalating trend in social support actions at the onset of the crisis and their main attributes as important components in building community resilience. The paper focuses specifically on the support activity of social movement o...
Kalogeraki, S. (2014). Migrant-related attitudes among the ethnic majority and migrant group duri... more Kalogeraki, S. (2014). Migrant-related attitudes among the ethnic majority and migrant group during prosperous and recessionary times: The case of Greece. In N. Petropoulos & G.Tsobanoglou (Eds.), The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone: Social Impacts (pp.206-226). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The article examines the family models and parental supervision in three European countries; Grea... more The article examines the family models and parental supervision in three European countries; Great Britain, Sweden and Greece. The results show (secondary data from the 1999 ESPAD study) that in Greece traditional family models and high levels of parental supervision of adolescents are signifi cantly more prevalent than in Great Britain and Sweden. It is suggested that cultural (individualism, collectivism) and socio-political (Welfare State) differences, between these three European countries, may have an impact on the formation of the family models and teenagers’ parental supervision.
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018
In the context of the recent global financial crisis – the most severe crisis since the Great De-... more In the context of the recent global financial crisis – the most severe crisis since the Great De-pression – Greece has been heavily affected in almost all aspects of the economic, social, political and in-stitutional spheres. The implemented draconian austerity measures under the bailout mechanisms have led to devastating effects on the lives of citizens that have triggered a plethora of collective initiatives. The main rationale of the Special Issue is to capture the various facets of socio-political responses that have emerged from the aftermath of the Greek financial crisis. The Special Issue relies on original data produced in the context of two EU-funded projects, namely LIVEWHAT and TransSOL, and includes six papers apply-ing qualitative and quantitative methods, providing a rich set of fresh and systematic data on understand-ing the collective efforts of Greek citizens during recessionary times.
American Behavioral Scientist, 2018
The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)ec... more The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organizations across Europe and rest on Action Organization Analysis, a new hubs-website approach extending Protest Event Analysis. They deal with the emergence and continuity of alternative action organizations in different contexts, while they focus on its multiple tactics and the ways in which they address crisis-related needs under diverse conditions of vulnerability and hardship. Our contributions rely on original data produced in the context of Work Package 6 of the EU-funded FP7 project “Living with Hard Times: How Citizens React to Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences” (LIVEWHAT), conducted across nine European countries.
Journal of Civil Society, 2020
Since 2008, the international economic and financial crisis has been affecting the living and wor... more Since 2008, the international economic and financial crisis has been affecting the living and working conditions of European citizens in different ways and scope. Yet, the pattern is of rising unemployment, social deprivation and poverty, cuts in health, education and social security budgets. These negative socioeconomic conditions have led to major transformations in collective responses, which, among others, take place through Alternative Action Organisations (AAOs). The specific organizations carry out non-mainstream activities that primarily target the economic and the social well-being of citizens, including their basic needs, health and lifestyles. Using quantitative data from the LIVEWHAT project and drawing on social origins theory and resource mobilization theory, the article investigates AAOs' main characteristics across four European countries that have been differently affected from the recent recession as well as belong to different welfare state and third sector regimes, including Germany, Greece, Sweden and Poland. The findings stress the importance of considering the particular combinations of the welfare state and third sector regimes as well as the severity of the experienced economic crisis in understating the variation in AAOs' main features under a comparative perspective.
Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών, Apr 27, 2017
The recent global financial and economic crisis has multiple impacts which, between others, inclu... more The recent global financial and economic crisis has multiple impacts which, between others, include changes in international migration flows. The present study using secondary data analysis explores migration inflows and outflows across EU memberstates most severely affected, including Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. The findings verify the experience of previous recessions indicating similar trends. However, important differences are detected indicating that international flows are formed from additional factors which are not associated with the economic crisis per se but reflect the peculiarities and migration characteristics of each country as well as broader events that operate independently of the economic conditions.
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2019
Abstract:Between 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Greece saw a fast-paced transit of high numbers ... more Abstract:Between 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Greece saw a fast-paced transit of high numbers of refugees, primarily from Syria, entering its territory en route to wealthier European countries. The unprecedented high number of refugees triggered, among other things, negative public attitudes towards newcomers. This article, inspired by ethnic competition and intergroup contact theories, uses survey data to compare Greeks' attitudes towards immigrants and Syrian refugees. The findings suggest the key role of intense contextual intergroup competition in shaping a stronger opposition to Syrian refugees than to immigrants. At the individual level, socio-cultural intergroup competition is decisive for anti-refugee attitudes, while socio-economic competition is also important for anti-immigrant attitudes. The analysis also underscores the decisive role intergroup contact plays in mitigating such negative stances. Understanding public attitudes towards newcomers, and particularly refugees, as well as designing adequate policies, is of critical importance in enabling effective integration into new host countries, specifically in times of high inflow of people seeking protection.
Voluntary Sector Review, 2019
Since 2008, Greece has been at the epicentre of the international economic and financial crisis, ... more Since 2008, Greece has been at the epicentre of the international economic and financial crisis, facing the deepest recession in its modern history. While the country has been associated with an anaemic civil society sector, the emergence of informal social solidarity networks has played a decisive role in supporting vulnerable socioeconomic groups. This article, using data from the LIVEWHAT project and applying a mixed-method design, sets out the main attributes of the informal civil society sector and elaborates on how solidarity actions are framed and practised. The article contributes to related research on the potential transformations of the civil society sector at times of socioeconomic and political crisis and methodologically points to the value of mixed-method designs to acquire an enriched understanding of specific facets of the phenomenon under study. Moreover, it underlines the necessity of developing adequate assessments that embrace both formal and informal entities as equally important actors in the civil society sphere.
Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2019
Between 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Greece became one of the epicenters of the European migra... more Between 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Greece became one of the epicenters of the European migrant crisis as it was one of the major entry points by the sea of thousands of refugees entering its territory en route to wealthier countries. The unpreparedness of the Greek state and the European Union leaders to deal with the massive migrant flows significantly contributed to the pivotal role that informal and formal actors, including civil society migrant organizations, played to respond to migrants' needs. The article using data from the EU-funded TransSOL project and applying a mixed method approach with the rationale of complementarity explores attributes (such as organizational structure, main activities, ultimate aims and means to achieve them, collaborative networks, etc.) as well as unveils the meaning of solidarity initiatives of specific formal and informal migrant organizations operating in the country. The indicative findings provide some preliminary evidence on the distinct features of informal and formal migrant organizations uncovering their diverse roles and tasks in meeting migrants' needs and rights in Greece. It is recommended that further research on migrant organizations examining their main features and potential challenges in supporting migrants is essential not only for migrants themselves but for the whole society, specifically in times marked by a refugee crisis.
The International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society, 2017
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