Absence of a ‘Community’and Spatial Invisibility: Migrants from Albania in Greece and the Case of Thessaloniki

Type Journal Article - The Ethnically diverse city
Title Absence of a ‘Community’and Spatial Invisibility: Migrants from Albania in Greece and the Case of Thessaloniki
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 85-114
URL https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/691888/filename/Kokkali_FUTURE.pdf
Abstract
The intention of this paper is to shed some light on the mode of organization of the
Albanian immigration in Greece. Firstly we intend to maintain a hypothesis of a noncommunitarian
organization of this particular migration. For this purpose we explore the
Albanians’ social networks. Then, we make a second assumption: their diffusion. in the urban
space as well as the absence of any ethnic infrastructure suggest a spatial invisibility of the
Albanians in the Greek city. Exploring the example of Thessaloniki, the second largest Greek
city after Athens, we will maintain that Albanians’ non-communitarian social insertion is
reflected in the urban space: despite their large numbers in Thessaloniki, there is no evidence
of any ethnicized district.

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