GREECE
Centre for Asia Minor Studies – Kms
Centre for Support to Returning
Greek Migrants
Department of Early Childhood Education
(Athens)
Department of Geography (Mytilene)
Department of Primary Education
(Alexandroupoli)
Department of Primary Education (Ioannina)
Department of Primary Education (Thessaloniki)
Department of Social Anthropology (Mytilene)
Department of Social
Policies and Social Anthropology
Greek Helsinki Monitor
Hellenic Centre of European
Studies – Ekem
Institute
of Labour of the Greek Confederation of Trade Unions – INE/GSEE
Marangopoulos Foundation for Human
Rights
Minority Groups Research Centre
– KEMO
National Centre for Social
Research – EKKE
Network for the
Support of Immigrants and Refugees – DYMP
Observatoire Grec de
l’Immigration – OGI
CENTRE FOR ASIA MINOR STUDIES –
KMS
Kydathinéon 11, GR-10558 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 3239225/3251364
Fax: ++30 1 3229758
E-mail: kms@otenet.gr
Website: www.users.otenet.gr/~kms
Contacts: George Yiannakopoulos, Stavros Anestides
The Centre, an independent non-profit organisation, is working on the history and demography of the Greek communities of Asia Minor at the end of the Ottoman era, the Greek refugees from Turkey during the first decades of this century, nationalism, identity and interethnic relations. Under the direction of Markos Dragoumis the Centre maintains a musical-ethnographic archive.
The Centre publications include a regular bulletin and the journals Exodus and Bibliotheca Asiae Minoris Historica.
CENTRE FOR SUPPORT TO RETURNING
GREEK MIGRANTS
Dinokratous Str. 68, GR-11521 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 7238691
Director: Antonios Papantoniou
Since 1990 the Centre, in collaboration with universities and social organisations in Germany, has focused its research and other activities (training courses, psychotherapeutic groups, social work, a legal service) on migrants and returning migrants from Western Europe, refugees and illegal immigrants mainly from Eastern Europe and the countries of the Middle East and Africa.
The Centre participates in the research programme ‘Le nouvelles dynamiques migratoires en Europe et leurs effets sur le processus d'insertion-exclusion sociale’ within the framework of the Third European Programme to Combat Poverty. It also participates in the project ‘Migrated insertion in the informal economy, deviant behaviour and the impact on receiving society’ co-ordinated by Professor Emilio Reyneri (University of Parma, Italy).
DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
University of Athens
Hippocrates str. 33, GR-10680 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 3617922
Fax: ++30 1 3617922
E-mail: drathal@ath.forthnet.gr ; afra@otenet.gr
Contact: Thalia Dragonas, Anna Fragoudaki
A group of academics and primary school teachers, under the direction of Anna Frangoudaki, Professor of the Sociology of Education, and Thalia Dragonas, Professor of Social Psychology and head of the same department, is carrying out a research project on intercultural education in schools that enrol pupils of Muslim religion and Turkish language background.
A recent research project dealing with ethnocentrism and xenophobia in the Greek educational system involved undertaking: a content analysis of school textbooks on the subjects of history, geography, and language (representation and evaluation of ‘self’ and national ‘others’), and field research on the representations of the national ‘self’ and the national ‘others’ in a representative sample of primary school teachers. The group also organised a pilot teacher education course on ‘Diversities and Discrimination’.
Current research includes ‘Reform of the Education of Muslim Children’ which is a Ministry of Education/EU backed programme to examine the provision for Turkish, Pomak, and Gypsy minority children (Anna Fragoudaki).
The Department provides both initial and in-service training provision for teachers in addition to supporting the research programmes of its staff.
DEPARTMENT
OF GEOGRAPHY
University of the Aegean
H. Tricoupi & Faonos St., GR-81100, Mytilini, Lesvos
Tel.: ++30 251 36413/36499
Fax: ++30 251 36401/36400
E-mail: d.lafazani@geo.aegean.gr
Website: www.aegean.gr/geography
Contact: Dr Dora Lafazani
Some of the staff members of the Department pursue research on interethnic relations and the political organisation of ethno-cultural difference. Currently the department is working with universities in Gorizia, Corsica, Malaga, Lisbon, Belfast and London, on a research programme funded by DG XII of the EU, ‘Border cities and towns: causes of social exclusion in peripheral Europe’ (1997-2000).
The Department offers courses on minorities, migration, social and political geography, and the EU and the Mediterranean.
DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
Democritus University of Thrace
Nea Chili, GR-68100 Alexandroupoli
Tel.: ++30 551 39627
Fax: ++30 551 39630/39717
Website: http://192.108.114.9/
A group of academics and primary school teachers, under the direction of Pan. Karakatsanis, is working on intercultural education in the school and the Muslim non-Greek speaking minority of Western Thrace.
DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
University of Ioannina
GR-45110 Ioannina
Tel.: ++30 6 5198697
Fax: ++30 6 5198713
E-mail: amikrop@cc.uoi.gr
Website: www.uoi.gr/schools/edu/ptde
The Department's main research interests in the field of ethnic studies are education and diaspora, and multicultural education.
DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Panepistimioupoli, GR-54006 Thessaloniki
Tel.: ++30 31 430209/ 868111
Fax: ++30 31 430295
Website: www.eled.auth.gr
The Department is engaged in interdisciplinary research and field projects on social exclusion. Recent research projects include: ‘Social and economic integration of the least privileged groups in the district of Eleftherio/Kordellio-Evosmos-Menemeni’, to empower the poor and neglected groups of Gypsies, single parent families, Pontioi (refugees of Greek origin coming from the former Soviet Union), and families with members with special needs, which live on the west side of Thessaloniki; ‘HORIZON: Project for the improvement of Gypsies’ living conditions in Sophades’ (in the same rural area the Department organised an intensive training programme for young Gypsy women serving as paraprofessionals for literacy, educational, consultative and health services in the Gypsy community); ‘ECOS-OVERTURE’, a project aimed at the establishment of national and interstate support networks for Gypsies, at increasing the sensitivity of local authorities to the plight of Gypsies and the promotion of collaboration among universities in relation to combating social exclusion.
The Department also acts as an agent to implement programmes against exclusion in the work force, for refugees’ training programmes and for special activities for children of socially excluded groups.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
University of the Aegean
Karandoni 17, GR-81100 Mytilene
Tel.: ++30 251 29579/21286
Fax: ++30 251 23783
Website: www.aegean.gr
Though the Department of Social Anthropology is not directly involved with interethnic relations, many members of the staff have interests in the broad field of interethnic relations, from both an historical and a contemporary perspective.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL POLICIES
AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Panteion University
136 Syngrou Av., GR-17671 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 9220100/9223227
Fax: ++30 1 9223690
Website: www.panteion.gr
The Department is working on two projects. The first one, ‘Pontoi immigrants of Greek origin in the former USSR. Social and economic integration’, analyses the demographic, social and economic characteristics of Pontoi, who settled in Greece from 1985 to 1990, and the problems faced by these immigrants in view of setting forth proposals for their integration. The second project, ‘Immigrants from Third World Countries in Greece’, aims at evaluating the dimension of immigration to Greece and at analysing the causes of immigration in the recent past.
GREEK
HELSINKI MONITOR
PO Box 51393, GR-14510 Kifisia
Tel.: ++30 1 6200120
Fax: ++30 1 8075767
E-Mail: office@greekhelsinki.gr
Contact: Mr Panayote Dimitras
The GHM is affiliated to the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.
HELLENIC CENTRE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
– EKEM
1 G. Prassa & Ditotou, GR-10680 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 3636880
Fax: ++30 1 3631133
Director: Prof. S. Perrakis
The Centre is a private, non-profit making organisation conducting research on human rights in Western Europe, minorities in Europe, environmental protection, refugees, social policy, immigration and institutional aspects of the EU evolution. Current research is on the development and evolution of the protection of human rights, and as part of this, in 1995 commenced a study on Minorities law, and in 1996 a study on Refugee law, both of which are still ongoing. The Centre organises conferences and human rights courses.
INSTITUTE
OF LABOUR OF THE GREEK CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS – INE/GSEE
Emm. Benaki 71a, GR-10681 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 330446874
Fax: ++30 1 3304462
Group Director: Petros Linardos-Ryimon
A research group has been working on immigration in Greece and its impact on the labour market. There are many training programmes concerning immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
MARANGOPOULOS FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lycavittou st. 1, GR-106 72 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 3637455
Fax: ++30 1 3622454
Director: Dr. A. Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos
The Foundation’s purpose is to research, study, defend, protect and promote fundamental freedoms, civil and political rights and economic, social, cultural and collective rights. Its current research projects include ‘L’Exploitation sexuelle des femmes’ and ‘L’Exploitation sexuelle des enfants’. The Foundation offers courses on the protection of human rights at universal and regional levels.
MINORITY GROUPS RESEARCH CENTRE –
KEMO
Venizelou 8, GR-54624 Thessaloniki
Tel.: ++30 31 226421
Fax: ++30 31 230800
Directors: Dimitris Christopoulos and Constantin Tsitselikis
The Centre was founded in March 1996 to study and provide information on historical and new minorities, and to promote interdisciplinary studies drawing from sociology, anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, folklore, political science, economics and law, on the presence of minority groups and cultures, and on cultural differences in Greece and Europe. The Centre is currently working on the project ‘The minority phenomenon in Greece: a contribution from the social sciences’.
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
– EKKE
Institute of Social Policy
Messogheion av. 14-18, GR-115 27 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 7489131-5
Fax: ++30 1 7489120/27/43
EKKE continues the work of the Athens Centre for the Social Sciences, which was founded in 1959 under UNESCO auspices. It operates as a public entity under public law. Its main objectives are: to foster the generation of knowledge in the social sciences, through the promotion of collective, interdisciplinary and comparative social research; to conduct research focusing on social structures and change in Greek society; to organise conferences, seminars, workshops and lectures on social scientific as well as methodological topics. The Centre’s research staff come from different disciplinary backgrounds, covering, among others, anthropology, demography, economics, geography, political science, sociology and statistics.
The Centre’s research activities are organised in relation to its three research institutes: the Institute of Urban and Rural Sociology; the Institute of Political Sociology; and the Institute of Social Policy. In particular, the main current research projects of the Institute of Social Policy are: ‘The impact of xenophobia in the economic and social development of Northern Greece-Macedonia’, ‘The perception of strangers: dimension of xenophobia and racism in Greece’.
NETWORK FOR THE
SUPPORT OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES – DYMP
3rd September 48b, Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 3813928
Fax: ++30 1 3840350
Director: Cristopher Papadopoulos
The Network is engaged in research on the main components of the immigration question, as well as in the direct support of immigrants and refugees through its Centre of Support and Reception Office. The research is conducted by its Documentation Centre.
OBSERVATOIRE GREC DE
L’IMMIGRATION – OGI
Papaflessa 9, GR-15127 Athens
Tel.: ++30 1 8030504
Fax: ++30 1 8030504
Contact: Dora Lafazani
The observatory works on national integration of historical minorities and the political organisation of cultural differences. In addition, since 1992 it has also been working on recent economic migrants from different ethnic groups and on the possibility of constructing a Greek model of migrant social integration.