A basic guide on Greece's European context in 2015 with historically high refugee arrivals, pull factors, national and regional challenges, border closures, fortress Europe, and much more.
The aim of the book, is to give you an insight into some of the aspects of “the European refugee crisis.” For Europe, “the European refugee crisis” seems to become one of this decade's most significant “sequence of political events.” European Union Member States are in the midst of an ongoing process of pairing humanitarian obligations with European Union/nation state administrative procedures. The implementations involve multiple interactions at the political, social, medical, legal and financial levels both within nation states and at the transnational levels. On an individual scale, this new European reality is probably already part of your daily thoughts or activities in your learning communities and social spheres.
It is my hope, that you will create your own viewpoints on the various topics discussed and that you will engage in informative, constructive discussions regarding one of the more complex areas of today's European reality in an international and in a national context.
H. Kristensen
The author is a European, accredited lawyer (LL.B, LL.M) with postgraduate certifications in journalism (UK), project management (Stanford University, the Stanford Center for Professional Development, the US) and teaching (the University of Cambridge, the UK). H. Kristensen has worked for prominent humanitarian actors, European governments, international non governmental organisations and international foundations. The author has extensive field experience in working with displaced from conflict and war zones in the front line of the Greek/European response.
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