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Monday, 27 March 2017

Refugees: The Inside Story Of What Went Wrong In Greece



The Refugee Archipelago: The Inside Story Of What Went Wrong In Greece, Huffington Post


Where did the money go? How Greece fumbled the refugee crisis, The Guardian


The migrants 'trapped' on the Greek island of Chios, BBC


UNHCR Calls on Greece to Adopt Eight Measures for Sustainable Refugee Response, Greek Reporter


Millions of euros in funding for refugee housing wasted, eKathimerini, Update May 2017


More than 2,500 refugees live in Athens squats, eKathimerini


Update 30 November 2017:

Asylum seekers’ hell in a Greek ‘hotspot’, Opinion Piece, Euronews


Update December 20,  2017:

Video of Refugee Camp in Greece. Pappas Post

Refugees on Lesbos, DW Video












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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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