ABSTRACT
Greece has experienced sudden massive inflows of immigration in the 1990s, predominantly from Albania. Lurching between exclusionary ideology and practical permissiveness, policy has been incoherent. A delayed regularization programme is now in operation, but proceeding slowly and potentially problematically. Police and bureaucrats’ complicity in the trafficking and forced prostitution of migrants has emerged as an extensive phenomenon. Using a tripartite analytic framework, it is argued that different state agencies and actors have pushed different policies for different reasons. Overall, state capacity to react has been weak and defective.
