On the Fringe: Greece, Migration, and Populism
On the Fringe: Greece, Migration, and Populism

Summary/Abstract: The global financial crisis and the euro area crisis and their implications, triggered populism and demagogy, which have fed on people’s ignorance, confusion and despair. As no common EU-level response to the refugee and migration crises was negotiated promptly, over the period 2015-2016 the EU-level debate on migration created a new opportunity for domestic political actors to employ migration as a resource of political competition at home. Paradoxically, in Greece, i.e. a country so profoundly exposed to the unprecedented influx of migrants, migration has not been used as a resource of political competition. This paper identifies and examines factors that have contributed to that.

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