Olga Lafazani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 934068 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Olga Lafazani |
| NOMBRES | Olga |
| APELLIDO | Lafazani |
| FIRMA | LAFAZANI O |
| AFILIACIONES | Harokopio University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1964-7114 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Camp studies trapped in the camp? Re-articulating recent Greek history through the camp as a productive device
This paper critically examines dominant approaches in camp studies, by shifting the analytical focus away from the camp as a self-contained site. Drawing on over two decades of research and political engagement with migration, borders, and camps in Greece, this paper is an attempt to articulate Greece's recent history through the analytical lens of the camp—not as an isolated space, but as a productive device embedded within broader sociopolitica…
Des métropoles-refuges
L’immigration de travail qui caractérise l’Europe du Sud depuis les années 1980 est d’abord tournée vers les grandes villes et le secteur tertiaire. Sa diversité, son taux de féminisation important, sa présence dans de nombreux secteurs du marché du travail font qu’elle contribue à modifier durablement la géographie sociale des métropoles. À la fin des années 2000, le paysage migratoire de ces grandes villes sud-européennes connaît de profondes t…
Residing (at) the border
In this paper, I open a discussion on internal bordering practices, starting from an unexpected space: the home. I delve into instances where newly arrived migrants, despite living in the city center, effectively reside (at) the border. My aim is to comprehend borders both as regimes and as technologies of power that manufacture everyday life, even within ostensibly "private" and "secure" spaces. I begin by examining four distinct "homes" of newl…
The Significance of the Insignificant
This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper captures the multiple rel…
Homeplace Plaza
This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show off its achievements. In contrast to the romanticization of migrants or of similar projects in scholarly discourses, this paper reflects on the difficulties of self…
Living Resistance
Research Article| October 01 2018 Living Resistance: Experiences from Refugee Housing Squats in Athens Loukia Kotronaki; Loukia Kotronaki Loukia Kotronaki is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of political science and history at Panteion University (Athens, Greece). She has conducted extensive research on transnational collective action, social movements, party politics, and democratization processes in Europe. Having published several a…
Kρίση and Μετανάστευση in Greece
In this essay I outline the ways in which κρίση ( krísi - crisis) and μετανάστευση ( metanástefsi - migration) have been interrelated during the last decade in Greece. By being grounded in concrete times and places, I argue that these interrelations, far from being stable and fixed, take their form and meaning within wider social, economic and political contexts
A Border within a Border
The routes of migrants without papers towards Western European countries often converge at the city of Patras, a city in the western borders of Greece with a port connecting to Italy. Around 2001, the migrants who lived there temporarily—until they managed to cross the border—built a squatter settlement. Following a period of social and political tensions, the settlement was finally demolished in 2009. In this paper I approach the settlement in P…
Homeplace Plaza
This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show off its achievements. In contrast to the romanticization of migrants or of similar projects in scholarly discourses, this paper reflects on the difficulties of self…
The Significance of the Insignificant
This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper captures the multiple rel…
A Border within a Border
The routes of migrants without papers towards Western European countries often converge at the city of Patras, a city in the western borders of Greece with a port connecting to Italy. Around 2001, the migrants who lived there temporarily—until they managed to cross the border—built a squatter settlement. Following a period of social and political tensions, the settlement was finally demolished in 2009. In this paper I approach the settlement in P…
Kρίση and Μετανάστευση in Greece
In this essay I outline the ways in which κρίση ( krísi - crisis) and μετανάστευση ( metanástefsi - migration) have been interrelated during the last decade in Greece. By being grounded in concrete times and places, I argue that these interrelations, far from being stable and fixed, take their form and meaning within wider social, economic and political contexts
Residing (at) the border
In this paper, I open a discussion on internal bordering practices, starting from an unexpected space: the home. I delve into instances where newly arrived migrants, despite living in the city center, effectively reside (at) the border. My aim is to comprehend borders both as regimes and as technologies of power that manufacture everyday life, even within ostensibly "private" and "secure" spaces. I begin by examining four distinct "homes" of newl…
Living Resistance
Research Article| October 01 2018 Living Resistance: Experiences from Refugee Housing Squats in Athens Loukia Kotronaki; Loukia Kotronaki Loukia Kotronaki is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of political science and history at Panteion University (Athens, Greece). She has conducted extensive research on transnational collective action, social movements, party politics, and democratization processes in Europe. Having published several a…
A Border within a Border
The routes of migrants without papers towards Western European countries often converge at the city of Patras, a city in the western borders of Greece with a port connecting to Italy. Around 2001, the migrants who lived there temporarily—until they managed to cross the border—built a squatter settlement. Following a period of social and political tensions, the settlement was finally demolished in 2009. In this paper I approach the settlement in P…
Homeplace Plaza
This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show off its achievements. In contrast to the romanticization of migrants or of similar projects in scholarly discourses, this paper reflects on the difficulties of self…
Living Resistance
Research Article| October 01 2018 Living Resistance: Experiences from Refugee Housing Squats in Athens Loukia Kotronaki; Loukia Kotronaki Loukia Kotronaki is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of political science and history at Panteion University (Athens, Greece). She has conducted extensive research on transnational collective action, social movements, party politics, and democratization processes in Europe. Having published several a…
Kρίση and Μετανάστευση in Greece
In this essay I outline the ways in which κρίση ( krísi - crisis) and μετανάστευση ( metanástefsi - migration) have been interrelated during the last decade in Greece. By being grounded in concrete times and places, I argue that these interrelations, far from being stable and fixed, take their form and meaning within wider social, economic and political contexts
The Significance of the Insignificant
This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper captures the multiple rel…
Des métropoles-refuges
L’immigration de travail qui caractérise l’Europe du Sud depuis les années 1980 est d’abord tournée vers les grandes villes et le secteur tertiaire. Sa diversité, son taux de féminisation important, sa présence dans de nombreux secteurs du marché du travail font qu’elle contribue à modifier durablement la géographie sociale des métropoles. À la fin des années 2000, le paysage migratoire de ces grandes villes sud-européennes connaît de profondes t…
Residing (at) the border
In this paper, I open a discussion on internal bordering practices, starting from an unexpected space: the home. I delve into instances where newly arrived migrants, despite living in the city center, effectively reside (at) the border. My aim is to comprehend borders both as regimes and as technologies of power that manufacture everyday life, even within ostensibly "private" and "secure" spaces. I begin by examining four distinct "homes" of newl…
Camp studies trapped in the camp? Re-articulating recent Greek history through the camp as a productive device
This paper critically examines dominant approaches in camp studies, by shifting the analytical focus away from the camp as a self-contained site. Drawing on over two decades of research and political engagement with migration, borders, and camps in Greece, this paper is an attempt to articulate Greece's recent history through the analytical lens of the camp—not as an isolated space, but as a productive device embedded within broader sociopolitica…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Everyday life (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (2 obras)