Petracou, Electra V. (1999) Exploring the social and historical dimensions of migration in the European context with special reference to the Greek case. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis examines migration as a contemporary social phenomenon. Adopting
Marxian dialectics, migration is defined as a form and as a process of
social relations. Thus, migration exists as a differentiated but also as an
internal part of social totality. This social totality, as a historical result,
constitutes the general social framework within which migration is examined.
This study of migration starts from the examination of this particular
social organisation of social relations. Migration as an international phenomenon
is explored through migration policies and flows, alongside with
the relationship between national and international contexts. Moreover, the
analysis focuses on a new territorial political organisation, the EU, and its
interaction with migration. Furthermore, this study explores the ways that
migration is constructed in a specific national context, that of the Greek
state. Particularly, the interest in on the ways that migration is included in
the social and political process in Greek society.
Finally, the analysis focuses on people's experience as migrants in Greece,
which is examined through structural social characteristics and attitudes, in order to illustrate that migration means a process of being constructed as a
'migrant' depending on both general and specific social contexts.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Emigration and immigration -- Europe, Emigration and immigration -- Greece
Official Date:	29 October 1999
Dates:	Date Event 29 October 1999 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (Economic and Social Research Council)
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Layton-Henry, Zig
Sponsors:	Greece. State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
Extent:	xiv, 409 leaves
Language:	eng

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