Globalisation, Migration and Socio-economic Change in Contemporary Greece

Globalisation, Migration and Socio-economic Change in Contemporary Greece
Author: Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9053568735

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Explores the complex set of processes that determine the incorporation patterns of migrants from Balkan countries in Greece.

Globalization and Poverty

Globalization and Poverty
Author: Ann Harrison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226318001

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Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Blood and Oranges

Blood and Oranges
Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 085745143X

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A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social liberalization have been accompanied by the creation of a vulnerable and marginalized class of immigrant laborers. The author analyzes the paradoxical resurgence of ethnic nationalism and neo-racism that has grown in the wake of European unification and addresses key issues of racism, neoliberalism and nationalism in contemporary anthropology.

Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania

Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania
Author: Nataša Gregorič Bon
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030840913

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The edited collection is a fresh contribution to the anthropological, sociological, and geographical explorations of time-space in Southeast Europe and Albania in particular. By delving into various levels of people’s daily lives, such as literature, relation to the environment, the urbanization process, art, photography, trauma and remembering, processes of modernity, the volume vividly portrays various realms that are lived and perceived. It largely builds on the premise that structural resemblances of the past continuously reappear in particular social and cultural moments and seek to restore and build the individual and collective lives in contemporary Albania.

Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe

Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe
Author: R. King
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1999-10-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0333982525

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As Europe struggles to control immigration, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of 'Fortress Europe'. This book examines the many facets of Southern Europe's new immigration: the diverse roles played by immigrants in the labour market, issues of social exclusion and wider strategic concerns of security and geopolitics.

Entrepreneurship in the Balkans

Entrepreneurship in the Balkans
Author: Veland Ramadani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642365779

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This book represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in the Balkans region. It provides major theoretical and empirical evidence that offers a brighter view of these fields and aims to open up opportunities for greater dialogue in public policy. The readers would be able to enhance their knowledge on small businesses and innovation issues in the Balkans. An outcome of a long lasting endeavour, this book includes contributions of highly reputed authors and experts from the Balkans’ countries. Features forewords by two well-known personalities of this field, Leo Paul Dana and Alain Fayolle.​

Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences

Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences
Author: Ermira Danaj
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2022-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030920925

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This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in complex social relations and migration trajectories. By focusing on various cases – internal, international, return, economic and student female migrants – the book underlines that migration does not follow any kind of evolutionary development, according to which women go from 'traditional’ to ‘modern' gender relations. By providing a compelling account on the complex negotiations and tactics women employ to deal with gender inequalities, this book leads to a better understanding of gender and migration entanglements. It is a useful read to students, academics in migration and gender studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers in European countries.

Migration in the Southern Balkans

Migration in the Southern Balkans
Author: Hans Vermeulen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319137190

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This open access book collects ten essays that look at intra-regional migration in the Southern Balkans from the late Ottoman period to the present. It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation-building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization. Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines. This cross-cultural, comparative approach fully captures the complexity of this highly fractured, yet interconnected, region. Coverage explores the role of population exchanges in the process of nation-building and irredentist policies in interwar Bulgaria, the story of Thracian refugees and their organizations in Bulgaria, the changing waves of migration from the Balkans to Turkey, Albanian immigrants in Greece, and the diminished importance of ethnic migration after the 1990s. In addition, the collection looks at such under-researched aspects of migration as memory, gender, and religion. The field of migration studies in the Southern Balkans is still fragmented along national and disciplinary lines. Moreover, the study of forced and voluntary migrations is often separate with few interconnections. The essays collected in this book bring these different traditions together. This complete portrait will help readers gain deep insight and better understanding into the diverse migration flows and intercultural exchanges that have occurred in the Southern Balkans in the last two centuries.

The Ethnically Diverse City

The Ethnically Diverse City
Author: Frank Eckardt
Publisher: BWV Verlag
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 383051641X

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