In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (French: Les Identités Meurtrières) is a 1998 book by Amin Maalouf, in which he discusses the identity crisis that Arabs have experienced since the establishment of continuous relationships with the west, adding his personal dimension as a Lebanese Christian. This work is divided into
Content language: Greek
Here Kaput
This ethnographic study explores the experiences of Albanian migrant women who married Greek men in the Greek-Albanian border region after 1990. Through four case studies, the author examines how migration, nationalism, and gender intersect with the violence these women experience in the domestic sphere. The work highlights the dialectic between political violence and everyday life,
The gaze of X-rays
The book explores the historical and political trajectory of X-ray technology, focusing on how this seemingly neutral medical practice is entangled with systems of control, discipline, and violence. Through interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors examine how X-rays have been used not only for healing but also for surveillance, stigmatization, and the exposure of human bodies within
Building Bridges Between School and Parents-Refugees
This paper presents the practices for the involvement of refugee parents, applied in Magnesia in the school year 2016-17, the year in which refugee children were introduced into the Greek educational system through Reception/ Preparatory Classes. The ultimate aim is to identify those factors that facilitate the involvement of refugee parents in their children’s education
Small Fears
The film is the result of the film animation workshop for the inclusion of refugee and migrant children, which took place at the Refugee and Migrant Facility of Ritsona, in 2022 and was attended by Atena Rezaee, Parwaneh Najafi, Zaynab Najafi, Zahra Heydari, Sezara Jaffari, Fatema Wafai.
“Ritsona’s Children” – Painting Exhibition
The painting exhibition ‘The Ritsona’s Children’ was organized by the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in collaboration with the artists Efi Mouriki and Vladimir Kiriakidis, from 3 to 11 October 2022. The exhibition presented the paintings of teenage girls from the Refugee Accommodation Centre of Ritsona, who through art express their pains, fears and hopes.
Refugee camps in the mainland
A report by Refugee Support in the Aegean (RSA) on the living conditions in the refugee camps in the hinterland, structures isolated from the local communities and now the only form of reception for asylum seekers in Greece. The findings are captured through interviews with people in camps such as Ritsona, Thebes, Malakasa and Korinthos,
Lives in suspension: Letters to the world from Ritsona
The author, a girl from Afghanistan who lives in the Ritsona camp, writes about the refugee, living in (another) refugee camp – and even in the time of a pandemic. She gives voice to the migrant, the immigrant, the abused, the oppressed, the imprisoned, the exiled and other heroes, through stories of refugees in the
“Solidarity” and “indifference”: the auto-ethnography of a working teacher in refugee camps in Greece
Having worked for almost seven years as an educator for refugee children in various camps in geographically isolated industrial and rural areas of Greece, the author narrates his experience, exploring how this specific ideological and spatial framework shapes the subjectivity and actions of the workers. Using the method of auto-ethnography, he highlights the ways in
A day for the whole world June 20: World Refugee Day
How does a refugee integrate into Greek society once he or she decides to settle permanently in the country? How much depends on him, and how much on us to be accepted? Refugees, who have sought refuge in Greece, share their thoughts, their concerns, their dreams and their actions.