Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises

Chapter 1. Introduction: Challenging Mobilities, Greece and the EU in Times of Crises.- Part : A Crisis driven Third Wave of Greek Emigration.- Chapter 2. Greece's Emigration During the Crisis Beyond the Brain Drain.- Chapter 3. The 'Virtual Return' Option of the Highly Educated Immigrants: The Case of Greek PhD holders.- Chapter 4. Greek State Schools in Germany and the Impact of 'New' Migration.- Part II: Crises and Host Attitudes.- Chapter 5. Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees During the 'Refugee Crisis' in Greece.- Chapter 6. Cognitive Maps, Cultural Distances and National Stereotypes in Times of Crises: Comparing Greece and Hungary.- Part III: Solidarity and Claims-making under Crises.- Chapter 7. Political Claims and the so Called 'Refugee Crisis' in the Greek Public Sphere.- Chapter 8. An Ephemeral Patriotism:  The Rise and Fall of 'Solidarity to Refugees'.- Chapter 9. Claiming Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrants' Protests and Border Controls.- Part IV: Mobility Reception Transitions in Times of Crises.- Chapter 10. The Making of Reception as a System. The Governance of Migrant Mobility and Transformations of Statecraft in Greece Since the Early 2000s.- Chapter 11. Governing Migrant (Im)mobility in Greece After the EU-Turkey Statement.- Chapter 12. Crisis Upon Crisis: Theoretical and Political Reflections on Greece's Response to the 'Refugee Crisis'.- Part V: Perennial Integration Challenges during Consecutive Crises.- Chapter 13. Pathways to Integration and Deintegration: An Assessment of the Greek Immigration Policy for the Inclusion of Immigrants, Applicants and Beneficiaries of International Protection.- Chapter 14. A 'Wicked Problem' for the Municipality of Athens. The 'Refugee Crisis' from an Insider's Perspective.- Chapter 15. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Refugees in Greece: A New Challenge for Healthcare Service Provision, Public Health Programmes and Policymaking.

Maria Kousis (Ph.D, The University of Michigan, 1984) is Professor of Sociology and former director of the University of Crete Research Centre for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (UCRC) (9/2014-11/2021). She was coordinator or partner in European Commission projects including Grassroots Environmental Action, TEA, PAGANINI and MEDVOICES. Her publications consist of 16 edited volumes, books, or special issues, 43 journal articles and 39 book chapters. Recent publications include, Transnational solidarity in times of crises: Citizen organisations and collective learning in Europe, focused on the fields of migration, disability and unemployment (Eds.: C. Lahusen, U. Zschache and M. Kousis, Palgrave, 2021) and Transnational Solidarity Organizations in Times of Crises - Comparative European Perspectives (Eds.: M. Kousis and C. Lahusen, special section of Sociological Research Online, 2021). Her research centres on Social Change, Contentious Politics, Crisis and Society, Environmental Politics, Bioethics and Southern Europe. Recent work focuses on the socio-economic and political dimensions of hard times, especially in the context of the research projects 'The Greeks, the Germans and the Crisis' (GGCRISI, Greek-German Ministries Cooperation), 'Living with Hard Times: How European Citizens Deal with Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences' (LIVEWHAT, EC, FP7), 'European Paths to Transnational Solidarity in times of crisis' (TransSOL, EC, Horizon 2020),  EURYKA (EC, Horizon 2020) and 'Social and Solidarity Economy, Urban Communities and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups' (Swiss Network for International Studies).

Aspasia Chatzidaki holds a BA in Greek Philology (University of Thessaloniki, Greece), an MA in Theoretical Linguistics (University of Reading, UK), and a Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium). She is Professor at the Department of Primary Education of the University of Crete