ABSTRACT
During the last decade, a wide range of political contradictions concerning Europeanisation has unfolded in Greece, in the convergences of the financial and the so-called refugee “crises”. This chapter discusses processes of constructing Europeanisation in interrelation with racism and nationalism, and the ways “new” distinctions and divisions emerge. At the same time that Europeanisation in Greece is in crisis during the period in question, it is strengthened as regards border security policies, the construction of a united “Us” against “the Others” via the “irregular” migration movements, and the questioning of the right on protection, movement, and inhabitance. The chapter analyses specific refugee discourses, politics, practices, by emphasizing on politicians’ and media rhetoric, as well as some shortcuts of refugees’ daily life in Greece.
