Refugee Camp Siting and the Emergence of Nimby Movements
A Mixed‐method Analysis of the Role of ‘Top‐down’ Governance and Media Influence in Greece
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11947985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Makridou (0009-0003-9370-8576, corresponding author), Ioannis Frangopoulos, Nikos Kapitsinis (0000-0002-3285-9894) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.70047 |
| OpenAlex | W4416755124 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
Studies on the association between spatial planning and local NIMBY responses dating back to the late 1970s have focused on NIMBY mobilizations against various unwanted facilities, with less attention to NIMBY responses to refugee accommodation units. This article seeks to examine the role of the implementation of a ‘top‐down’ system of migration governance and the influence of the media in the emergence of NIMBY mobilizations against refugee accommodation facilities. To this end, it adopts a socio‐spatial approach, perceiving space as a specific sociological concept and a non‐autonomous interpretative parameter of the social dynamics, distinguishing the logics of production and appropriation of space. Furthermore, adopting a Lefebvrian perspective, it explores the effects of the ad hoc siting of refugee camps as representational spaces, at the level of both collective spatial representations and spatial practices through the lens of the media. To achieve the research aim, it employs analysis of secondary data related to refugee arrivals and the distribution of refugees in the accommodation units, and document analysis of 50 national and local press publications. It contributes to the academic debate on spatial planning and the sociology of space, highlighting NIMBY opposition as an urban social movement claiming information and involvement in the decision‐making process
Accommodation · Appropriation · Corporate governance · NIMBY · Opposition (politics · Refugee · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban Planning and Governance
Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises
Understanding and Overcoming the Nimby Syndrome
Planners' Alchemy Transforming Nimby to Yimby
Keeping Faith
Understanding the Nimby and Lulu Phenomena
The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants
The 2007/08 capitalist crisis evolution in Greece
Reflections on Migration, Community, and Place
Nimby and the Civic Good
Greece’s response to the European refugee crisis
Changing the path? EU migration governance after the ‘Arab spring’
Rethinking Nimbyism
Multiple geographies of precarity
Participatory governance for the temporary use of urban abandoned areas. A socio-spatial approach to the “Old Hospital” area in Alexandroupolis, Greece
Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’
From camps to social integration? Social housing interventions for asylum seekers in Greece
Citizen Participation and the Nimby Syndrome
Nimbys and Lulus
Susceptibility to threatening information and attitudes toward refugee resettlement
Theorizing the ‘local turn’ in a multi-level governance framework of analysis
Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers in Small Local Communities
Introducing the EC Hotspot Approach
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
Accommodating Otherness
Human service siting conflicts as social movements
Representation, Attitudes, and Behavior
The Fences of Melilla and Evros
Partisan Probing and Democratic Decisionmaking Rethinking the Nimby Syndrome
Can community involvement policies mitigate Nimbyism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres
Migration-related city networks
Overburdened? How refugee dispersal policies can mitigate Nimbyism and public backlash
EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis
Space, experience and authority
Interpreting Nimby as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps' siting
A "Refugee Crisis" Unfolding
Over Land and Sea
The Rise and Fall of Urban Movements and the Role of Comparative Analysts
Planners' Alchemy Achieved? How Nimby and Yimby Reproduce the Housing Question
Governance, Coordination and Legitimacy in Public Policies
Grassroots mobilisations against waste disposal sites in Greece
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance
On not staying put where they have put you
Regions and global migration governance
Re-visiting Nimby
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |