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Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece
Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece

Author(s): Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Christos Chalkias, Laukia-Maria Fratsea
Subject(s): Civil Society, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Immigrant Associations; NGOs; migrant integration; spatial hot-spot clustering; Greece

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the challenges faced today, in a context of severe economic crisis, by immigrant associations (ΙΜΑs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Greece. The data analysed here was collected between October 2009 and February 2010 and incorporates references to all recorded migration-related social actors operating in Greece. The paper takes into account such indicators as legal form, objectives, financial capacity and geographical range of activity, concluding with a typology of civil society actors dealing with migration issues. This study aims at informing the migration policymaking and migrant integration processes. By a spatial hot-spot clustering of IMAs and NGOs, we also illustrate the concentration patterns of civil society actors in Greece.

  • Issue Year: 10/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 342-358
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English