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Katerina Tsapopoulou

Katerina Tsapopoulou – Lawyer, Specialist in migration and asylum

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Segment 1

The Role of Lawyers in Refugee Law: Who Is Considered a Refugee?

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Geneva Convention on Refugees

The 1951 Geneva Convention is the cornerstone of international refugee law. It defines the ...

What does it mean to be a refugee?

About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes ...

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Mohamed Lamine

Mohamed Lamine – Born in Guinea and lives in Greece

Segment 2

The Asylum Process and the Lawyer's Role

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The longest route

Alsaleh from Syria and Jassim from Iraq are being held in Volos juvenile prison ...

My world is a camp | Rima Hassan |

In her TEDx talk titled “Mon monde est un camp”, Rima Hassan, born in ...

Segment 3

Cases from the Borders

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Hoyerswerda | Frontex

This short film presents the testimonies of four Mozambican migrants about the racially motivated ...

Illegal’ traveller: An auto-ethnography of borders.

This work explores the lived experience of border crossing through an auto-ethnographic lens, focusing ...

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Benjamin T.O.

Bengamin T.O. – Born in Guinea, passed through Greece and now lives in France

Segment 4

A Process of Identity Assertion

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In the name of identity: Violence and the need to belong

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (French: Les Identités ...

Here Kaput

This ethnographic study explores the experiences of Albanian migrant women who married Greek men ...

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Ilirida Musaraj

Ilirida Musaraj – Born in Albania and lives in Greece

Segment 5

Unaccompanied Minors

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The gaze of X-rays

The book explores the historical and political trajectory of X-ray technology, focusing on how ...

“Those Bridges That Help You Get There”: How Natural Mentors Improve Social Support and Social Capital of Unaccompanied Immigrant Youths Leaving Residential Care

This article examines the role of natural mentors in facilitating the transition of unaccompanied ...

‘If we want, they help us in any way’: how ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ experience mentoring relationships

This article explores the experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors participating in mentoring programs in ...

RaRE-Understanding Risk and Resilience in the Educational Performance of Refugee Children and Youth

The study is a literature review exploring the risk and resilience factors affecting the ...

Μonologues across the Aegean Sea – The journey and dreams of unaccompanied refugee children.

The content of this book is the result of a series of workshops that ...

Segment 6

Rejections of International Protection Application: Examples

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Waiting. A project in conversation

This book explores various forms of waiting on a global scale. Combining ethnography, philosophy, ...

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Benjamin T.O.

Bengamin T.O. – Born in Guinea, passed through Greece and now lives in France

Segment 7

Reactionary Responses, Deterrent Policies, and Detention Effects ("For Every Solution, There Is a Problem")

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Nazieh & Shazieh Khani

Nazieh & Shazieh Khani – Born in Afghanistan, passed through Greece and now live in Germany

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Navigation Guide

To create your own path through the platform, it is crucial to start with the testimony videos of people with refugee and migration experiences. Their voices are essential to understanding “the others”, as engaging with them offers a powerful way to better understand society as a whole.

  • Place your cursor over the photos and icons to view descriptions and select a testimony.

  • Search the material by categories, types, or keywords (Menu → Repository).

  • At the end of each video, review the icon descriptions and explore the related materials.

On VOLARE you will also find suggested “learning pathways” through the testimonies and accompanying materials, which are not restrictive or exclusive. The VOLARE team encourages visitors to create their own pathway of understanding, according to their educational context and interests.

The VOLARE digital platform:

  • Designed for educators, university students and secondary school students.

  • Employs participatory ethnographic approaches, integrating testimony and multimodality as tools in the educational process.

  • Offers a living archive of videos, texts and multimodal resources on migration and refugee experiences.

  • Creates a space for listening to and understanding the experiences of migrants, refugees and members of minority groups, with the aim of being used within secondary and higher education courses.

It includes:

  • Video-testimonies from people with refugee and migrant backgrounds in Greece, Bulgaria and France. Each research team chose its own way of filming and framing the testimonies, engaging uniquely with each person.

  • Video-contributions from educators, legal experts, artists and activists working in the field, who offer their own perspectives on this encounter.

  • Each testimony is accompanied by sources of knowledge (articles, books, reports, etc.) and additional multimodal materials (films, artworks, museums, games, databases, etc.).

  • Twelve songs in different languages, selected and recorded exclusively for VOLARE.

  • Podcasts featuring a wide range of people connected to VOLARE’s themes.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency (State Scholarship Foundation-IKY). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.