ISSUE: 3/2021
- Volume 25
- Number 3
- 2021
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The Albanian Migration to Greece and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 from the Greek Perspective
Abstract
Although migration has always been a timeless and volatile phenomenon, modern transnational movements of people have become a dominant topic of interest by constantly acquiring new characteristics that modify their evolutionary process. Europe is a geographical area that has been significantly affected by recent changes as a result of the evolution of migration flows of the last 30 years. The urgent need to initially understand and later implement evidence-based policies in order to sufficiently manage the migration phenomenon can be considered as the basic spark that led to the scientific blast of the 21st century, focusing on the gradual development of migration studies. One of the most notable efforts of the scientific community was the use of the comparison method to examine, understand, and in some cases even forecast the characteristics of specific migration case studies, thereby forming the backbone of comparative migration research in general. Greece, due to its geographical position, has been unintentionally positioned, many times, inside the so called “ring of fire”, as result of multiple factors and disastrous events that evolved mainly in its neighbouring countries, forcing massive, irregular migration flows to its external borders. The outbreak of the Albanian exodus in the early 1990s and the recent refugee flows of 2015 can be described as two major migration crises that have occurred in Greek’s contemporary history, making their comparison a fruitful example of the potential capabilities of the above-mentioned method, contributing to a holistic study of the migration phenomenon in Greece.
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DOI: 10.33067/SE.3.2021.7
Language: English
Pages: 115-135
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Nikas, C. and Aspasios, D. (2021) "The Albanian Migration to Greece and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 from the Greek Perspective". Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs, 3/2021, pp. 115-135. DOI: 10.33067/SE.3.2021.7