The EPLO organized a two-day conference on the topic “The Hesitant Pace of Migration Policy in the Greece of Crisis” on 17 and 18 January 2013 at the conference venue of the Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
The migration phenomenon has been at the epicenter of the news since the ‘90s, when the fall of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe formed the very first wave of economic migration with Greece as a destination, which escalated greatly in the decade 2000-2010 due to the mass influx of immigrants from African and Asian countries. It is something that currently – combined with the economic crisis – generates heated controversy across the social and political spectrum, stressing the necessity to reconsider the country’s migration policy.
The EPLO conference aimed to evaluate the current situation, taking into consideration the experiences of other European countries, and above all, the submission of proposals by more than 40 specialists (University Professors and researchers) on the management of every aspect of the country’s migration issue, such as: the institutional context regarding migration and asylum, the integration and the exclusion of immigrants, as well as their access to health care services, education and employment, their associations and their coexistence with the Greek population.
