One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present.

A century ago, over 1.2 million Ottoman Christians were forcibly displaced to Greece after the Greek army's defeat in Asia Minor. In the summer of 2015, over a million people, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, crossed the Aegean islands to reach Europe. These were the only two events in recent Gree...

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Publicado en:Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 15; pp. 3793 - 3812
Autores principales: Lafazani, Olga, Eleni, Kyramargiou, Alkis, Kapokakis, Thanasis, Tyrovolas
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2026
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          Lafazani, Olga
          Eleni, Kyramargiou
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          Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
          Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
          Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
          Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
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        Refugees
        Nation building
        Population policy
        Mass migrations
        History of the Mediterranean Region
        Forced migration
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        Türkiye
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          Greece
          Türkiye
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          Population policy
          Mass migrations
          History of the Mediterranean Region
          Forced migration
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        entangled history
        Migration history
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        refugee crisis
      ab: A century ago, over 1.2 million Ottoman Christians were forcibly displaced to Greece after the Greek army's defeat in Asia Minor. In the summer of 2015, over a million people, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, crossed the Aegean islands to reach Europe. These were the only two events in recent Greek history framed and managed as 'refugee crises'. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this paper employs the lens of entangled histories to examine how different grammars of crisis – discursive, institutional, and financial – have shaped the management of displacement across a century. By tracing continuities and ruptures in nation-building processes, in population management and in the production of 'refugee figures', it highlights how the framing of crisis has functioned as both a language of emergency and a mode of governance. This dialogue between past and present proves more fruitful than anticipated. It reveals that the 1922–24 displacement history is continuously written and rewritten to align with current national narratives. It also challenges us to critically rethink what is now accepted as common sense in today's management regimes. Thus, this paper seeks to both denationalise the past and denaturalise the present.
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