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Dimitriadi blog

Blog Article: The EU’s new Return Regulation: rhetoric, reality and the limits of externalisation

Angeliki Dimitriadi argues that as the EU turns to externalisation and return hubs, the evidence suggests these measures will not deliver the returns they promise, while Greece’s own data tells a story far removed from the political rhetoric.

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Securitised Humanitarianism

IMRU Advisory Board Members in Securitised Humanitarianism

Angeliki Dimitriadi and Eva Papatzani contributed chapters to the edited volume Securitised Humanitarianism: Social Policy and the Refugee Issue in Greece (2015–2025). (in Greek)

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Iris Book

New Greek edition: The wretched of the sea. Women and border in the Mediterranean (Camille Schmoll)

IMRU Advisory Board member Iris Polyzou (National Technical University of Athens) has co-edited, with Dina Vaiou, the introduction and scientific review in Greek of Camille Schmoll’s book, The wretched of the sea. Women and border in the Mediterranean. Topos editions, 2026.

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Datamig

IMRU at Datamig Workshop in Istanbul

IMRU Coordinator Angelo Tramountanis presented on Greece’s role as a testing ground for EU border technologies at the Datamig Workshop “Technologies of Externalisation in EU Migration Governance” (Işık University, 22 May 2026).

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Skleparis blog

Blog Article: To understand migration attitudes in Greece, look to the past

Dimitris Skleparis argues that while attitudes toward migration are often explained by present-day fears, new evidence from Greece suggests that how past suffering is remembered, and interpreted, matters even more.

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Skleparis Book

Across the Aegean: A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey, 1922–2022

IMRU Advisory Board member Dimitris Skleparis (Newcastle University) has co-edited, with Violetta Hionidou, Across the Aegean: A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey, 1922–2022 (Routledge, 2026).

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Why IMRU?

Blog Article: Why IMRU? Addressing the Migration Knowledge Problem in a Polarised Environment

Angelo Tramountanis outlines the rationale behind IMRU’s establishment, tracing the gap between decades of rigorous migration research and a public debate increasingly dominated by security narratives and disconnected from solid evidence.

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