ABSTRACT
Ever since the establishment of the Modern Greek state in 1830, the Greek territory has been shaped indelibly by migratory flows. At the moment, it is a crossroad of migratory flows, a destination for many non-Europeans, a transit for those heading north and a point of departure for Greek citizens that try to escape the crisis. A brief overview of the recent evolution of cities in the Greek territory indicates that they are an outcome of race, ethnic, gender and class relations. Moreover it reveals the inextricable link between crises and migration. Among those praxes, squatting has been drastically shaping the urban terrain. Taking all of this into account, the dialectic relation between capitalism, migration and crises becomes apparent. These processes are either considered a derivative of capital overaccumulation, as several orthodox Marxists point out, or an outcome of civil disobedience, as autonomous Marxism stresses.
