Papers by Ifigeneia Kokkali
ACCEPT PLURALISM is a Research Project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Frame... more ACCEPT PLURALISM is a Research Project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program. The project investigates whether European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years. In particular, the project aims to clarify: (a) how is tolerance defined conceptually, (b) how it is codified in norms, institutional arrangements, public policies and social practices, (c) how tolerance can be measured (whose tolerance, who is tolerated, and what if degrees of tolerance vary with reference to different minority groups). The ACCEPT PLURALISM consortium conducts original empirical research on key issues in school life and in politics that thematise different understandings and practices of tolerance. Bringing together empirical and theoretical findings, ACCEPT PLURALISM generates a State of the Art Report on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Tolerance Indicators’ Toolkit...
Addressing tolerance and diversity discourses in Europe
Geographically, Greece is located at the southeastern corner of the European continent, indeed cl... more Geographically, Greece is located at the southeastern corner of the European continent, indeed closer to the Middle East, Turkey and the Balkans rather than to what is today defined as the 'core'of the Europe, notably countries like France or Germany. This geographic position of Greece at the fringes of the European continent is to a large extent matched by a geopolitically and economically peripheral character of the country within the European Union, despite the fact that the successive enlargements of the EU to the East in ...
European studies of population, 2024
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2018
This article draws on discursive psychology to discuss the regularities identified in three sets ... more This article draws on discursive psychology to discuss the regularities identified in three sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with immigrants from Albania in Greece. We observed that in talking about migration indigenous Greeks and immigrants from Albania manage accountability by constructing the circumstances leading to migration as adverse and by drawing a distinction between the prototype of 'labour migrant' and the 'criminal migrant'. These regularities lead us to interrogate (i) the ways in which migration is talked about employing a moral rhetoric of humanism, on the one hand, and of deservingness, on the other, and (ii) the reproduction of these ways as 'normal' in the talk of immigrants.
Praising ethnocultural diversity of cities is a discourse that has acquired increasing importance... more Praising ethnocultural diversity of cities is a discourse that has acquired increasing importance in urban research and policy. In this latter, it has had such an echo that city leaders often find themselves chasing the ‘diversity advantage’ of their cities, which struggle to become multi-ethnic, pluricultural, ‘open to difference’ and so on. The object of this short article is to stress the selectivity with which diversity becomes visible in the cityspace. In seeking to capitalise on the diversity, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism (and so forth) of their cities, city-governments shape and promote specific city images; they thus construct and/or re-invent city identities and city representations for all kinds of city users.
Acquired for development by... le giovani generazioni e la rigenerazione di East London Acquired ... more Acquired for development by... le giovani generazioni e la rigenerazione di East London Acquired for development by… The Young Generation and East London Maria Michou_p. 29 Athens streetside arcades: silent gestures of minor occupation Giansandro Merli & Monia Cappuccini_p. 37 Atene tra crisi economica, narrazioni urbane e discorso razzista Urban narratives and racist propaganda in the city of Athens Ifigeneia Kokkali_p. 43 City representations and the selective visibility of the (ethnic) 'Others'. A short note on the fervent 'diversity' in Europe Maria Elena Buslacchi_p. 49 La moltiplicazione degli Off. Rappresentazioni urbane in una Capitale Europea della Cultura Off Multiplying. Urban representations in an European Capital of Culture Petra Potz & Ariane Sept_p. 57 Cittaslow-Germany: dove i piccoli centri urbani si rappresentano Cittaslow-Germany: where small cities represent themselves Lidia K.C. Manzo_p. 65 MILANO MONTECITY. La città sospesa MILANO MONTECITY. The suspended city #03 settembre_dicembre 2013 numero tre anno uno september_december 2013 issue three year one 4
Albanian population movements to Greece have been among the most important intra-Balkan fluxes of... more Albanian population movements to Greece have been among the most important intra-Balkan fluxes of the end of the twentieth century. Today, Albanians form the most significant immigrant 'stock' in Greece; counted as 438,000 individuals in the 2001 Greek census; 1 by 2010, they were estimated to have reached 700,000 (Maroukis 2008, pp. 6-8) out of a total population of about 11 million. Over a period of less than twenty years, their migration to Greece has presented all the 'classic' stages of a migration movement: labour migration of young men, regularisation of the migrants' statuses, extension of their intended stays, stabilization of the flux with the arrival of women and children, questions of incorporation, and then second-generation issues. Unlike many other immigrant groups, however, which present high concentrations in specific cities or regions of the country, the Albanians offer a more diffused pattern. Furthermore, in the field of my investigation-Thessaloniki-one cannot refer to an 'Albanian neighbourhood': there are few visible signs of the Albanians' numerically important presence that mark the urban space, such as Albanian cafés, restaurants, or grocers. 1 For a discussion on the problems of measuring immigrant stocks and flows in Greece and an attempt to do so, see Baldwin-Edwards with Apostolatou (2009, pp. 233-262). The aforementioned numbers include those of Greek-ethnic origin (co-ethnics/omoyeneis in Greek) coming from the Greek minority in Southern Albania), estimated, circa 2001, at 150,000-200,000 (see, op. cit., 241; Pavlou 2003a). I sincerely thank Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards and Riki Van Boeschoten for their thoughtful comments on the previous versions of my text.
This text may be downloaded only for personal research purposes. Additional reproduction for othe... more This text may be downloaded only for personal research purposes. Additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copies or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the research project, the year and the publisher.
Panel #82: Ethno-culturally diversified urban dwellers: rights, invisibility and recognition in t... more Panel #82: Ethno-culturally diversified urban dwellers: rights, invisibility and recognition in the city Ethnocultural diversity has become an incontestable reality of many cities across Europe and the world. The intensification of population mobility, for several reasons, lies behind this trend. The interest of
IMISCOE Research Series, 2015
Albanian population movements to Greece have been among the most important intra-Balkan fluxes of... more Albanian population movements to Greece have been among the most important intra-Balkan fluxes of the end of the twentieth century. Today, Albanians form the most significant immigrant 'stock' in Greece; counted as 438,000 individuals in the 2001 Greek census; 1 by 2010, they were estimated to have reached 700,000 (Maroukis 2008, pp. 6-8) out of a total population of about 11 million. Over a period of less than twenty years, their migration to Greece has presented all the 'classic' stages of a migration movement: labour migration of young men, regularisation of the migrants' statuses, extension of their intended stays, stabilization of the flux with the arrival of women and children, questions of incorporation, and then second-generation issues. Unlike many other immigrant groups, however, which present high concentrations in specific cities or regions of the country, the Albanians offer a more diffused pattern. Furthermore, in the field of my investigation-Thessaloniki-one cannot refer to an 'Albanian neighbourhood': there are few visible signs of the Albanians' numerically important presence that mark the urban space, such as Albanian cafés, restaurants, or grocers. 1 For a discussion on the problems of measuring immigrant stocks and flows in Greece and an attempt to do so, see Baldwin-Edwards with Apostolatou (2009, pp. 233-262). The aforementioned numbers include those of Greek-ethnic origin (co-ethnics/omoyeneis in Greek) coming from the Greek minority in Southern Albania), estimated, circa 2001, at 150,000-200,000 (see, op. cit., 241; Pavlou 2003a). I sincerely thank Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards and Riki Van Boeschoten for their thoughtful comments on the previous versions of my text.
The Ethnically Diverse City
Ifigeneia Kokkali Absence of a Community and Spatial Invisibility: Mi-grants from Albania in Gr... more Ifigeneia Kokkali Absence of a Community and Spatial Invisibility: Mi-grants from Albania in Greece and the Case of Thessaloniki Introduction Albanian immigrants are far more numerous than other foreigner groups in Greece, since they make up almost 58% of the total foreign ...
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