‘Albania: €1’ or the story of ‘big policies, small outcomes’: how Albania constructs and engages its diaspora

Since the fall of the communist regime in the early 1990s, Albania has experienced one of the most significant emigrations in the world as a share of its population. By 2010 almost half of its resident population was estimated to be living abroad – primarily in neighbouring Greece and Italy, but also in the UK and North America. This chapter discusses the emergence and establishment of the Albanian diaspora, its temporal and geographical diversity, and not least its involvement with Albania itself. Albania’s policymaking and key institutions are considered, with a focus on matters of citizenship; voting rights; the debate on migration and development; and not least the complex ways in which kin-state minority policies – related to ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo, Montenegro, southern Serbia, Macedonia and Greece – are interwoven with Albania’s emigration policies

Globalisation, migration and socio-economic Change in contemporary Greece: processes of social incorporation of Balkan immigrants in Thessaloniki.

The book is based on PhD research, supported by an ESRC fees-only grant during 2001- 2003. One of three selected for publication by Amsterdam University Press from all PhDs produced by 19 partner institutions of the IMISCOE network

Balkan immigrants in the Greek city of Thessaloniki: local processes of incorporation in an international perspective

This paper aims to explore aspects of the contemporary phenomenon of immigration from Balkan countries into Greece, linking it to wider developments taking place at the international level and locating transnational elements. More precisely, it focuses on contradictory processes of social incorporation of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants in Thessaloniki, based on empirical material deriving from fieldwork research. The analytical framework used in the paper is built upon: (a) the political, institutional and cultural context, with particular reference to the social and political responses to immigration; (b) the socio-economic context of the local labour market where immigrants work; and (c) the sociospatial context, seen in relation to the city’s social geography and the transformation of the urban space

Strangers as neighbours in the cosmopolis: new migrants in London, diversity and place

This volume brings together cultural analysts, social scientists, and media and film scholars to explore the ways in which core cities generate competing claims ..

Contested Chinatown: Chinese migrants' incorporation and the urban space in London and Milan

This article discusses Chinese migrants’ incorporation in European cities and the relevance of the urban space. In particular, it focuses on the Chinatowns of London and Milan, beginning from two recent cases where their space has been contested. Alongside the different histories and contemporary patterns of Chinese migration and settlement and the varying policies and politics of immigration and integration in Britain and Italy, we bring the urban factor in our analysis. More specifically, we look at the political economy of the urban space and the role of Chinatown in the dynamics of urban restructuring in the two cities. We conclude by summarising the key dimensions of comparison and by highlighting additional elements that are important in order to understand the multiple processes conditioning Chinese migrants incorporation in Europe, the peculiarities of Chinatown as a specific urban locale and the politics of contestation and protest involving immigrants in urban contexts. In that sense, the article examines different layers of explanation and builds a comparative analytical framework that goes beyond the limits of migration studies

Albanian return migration: migrants tend to return to their country of origin after all

Based on a research project ‘Analysis of the Albanian labour market' funded by OAED – the official Greek organisation for Manpower. Hatziprokopiou was research assistant. Carried out literature review and drafted the first, second and final sections. Contributed significantly to writing the rest of the paper