Immigration Law and Management in Greece
Towards an exodus from underdevelopment and a comprehensive immigration
policy
by Dr Nicholas Sitaropoulos
Working Paper No 3, Centre of International and European Economic Law,
Thessaloniki, Greece (http://www.cieel.gr); Ant N Sakkoulas Publishers,
Athens, Greece, 2003; paperback; 155 pp; ISBN: 960-15-0887-2
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This Working Paper provides an analysis of the main issues of law and
practice that are to be tackled by the Greek state, with a view to drawing
up an urgently needed comprehensive and efficient immigration policy in the
wider European context.
The first Section of the Working Paper presents the development of alien
immigration in modern Greece and the main socio-economic features of the
country's U-turn from the period of sending to the one of receiving economic
migrants. In the second Section there are analysed the three major phases of
Greek immigration policy and law from 1991-2002. This Section is
complemented by an overview of Greece's attempts to control illegal
immigration through regional inter-state agreements. Finally the third
Section focuses on some major issues regarding the marginalised
socio-political position of alien immigrant population and its prospects in
modern Greek society. The study concludes by pinpointing the basic crucial
issues on which a comprehensive Greek immigration policy should be focused,
breaking the constraints of the archaic logic of immigration control,
concurrently adopting a holistic method of action both regionally and on the
European level.
The author holds a PhD in Law (London, UCL), an LLM in International Human
Rights Law (Essex) and an LLB (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). He is
a Legal Officer at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights.
Available from http://www.ant-sakkoulas.gr; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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