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Migrants squatters in Greece and the limits of human rights law

Chatzikomnou, Fani LU (2020) JAMM07 20201
Department of Law
Faculty of Law
Abstract
During the years of the so-called refugee crisis, migrants lacking access to housing in Greece have squatted buildings or resided in makeshift settlements. Those homes have been met with state violence and continuous evictions. Those evictions are a form of migration control in the context of an ongoing disciplinary ‘management’ of migrant populations and their mobility in Europe and Greece. The thesis is exploring the capacity of certain instruments to offer protection against evictions to migrants residing in squats and settlements in Greece through their housing related provisions. Those instruments are all the major UN Human Rights
treaties, and especially the ICESCR, and the two CoE instruments, namely the ECHR and the RESC. The... (More)
During the years of the so-called refugee crisis, migrants lacking access to housing in Greece have squatted buildings or resided in makeshift settlements. Those homes have been met with state violence and continuous evictions. Those evictions are a form of migration control in the context of an ongoing disciplinary ‘management’ of migrant populations and their mobility in Europe and Greece. The thesis is exploring the capacity of certain instruments to offer protection against evictions to migrants residing in squats and settlements in Greece through their housing related provisions. Those instruments are all the major UN Human Rights
treaties, and especially the ICESCR, and the two CoE instruments, namely the ECHR and the RESC. The existing framework is neither evoked nor respected by Greece. However, if it were, it would drastically alter the way the evictions are conducted. Meanwhile, the incapacity of the framework to ban evictions and its preoccupation to ‘humanize’ them by posing certain requirements and obligations on states is problematized as legitimizing evictions and providing another way of governing migrants instead of promoting their own interests (Less)
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Chatzikomnou, Fani LU
supervisor
organization
course
JAMM07 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
language
English
id
9024507
date added to LUP
2020-11-16 09:44:20
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2020-11-16 09:44:20
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  abstract     = {{During the years of the so-called refugee crisis, migrants lacking access to housing in Greece have squatted buildings or resided in makeshift settlements. Those homes have been met with state violence and continuous evictions. Those evictions are a form of migration control in the context of an ongoing disciplinary ‘management’ of migrant populations and their mobility in Europe and Greece. The thesis is exploring the capacity of certain instruments to offer protection against evictions to migrants residing in squats and settlements in Greece through their housing related provisions. Those instruments are all the major UN Human Rights
treaties, and especially the ICESCR, and the two CoE instruments, namely the ECHR and the RESC. The existing framework is neither evoked nor respected by Greece. However, if it were, it would drastically alter the way the evictions are conducted. Meanwhile, the incapacity of the framework to ban evictions and its preoccupation to ‘humanize’ them by posing certain requirements and obligations on states is problematized as legitimizing evictions and providing another way of governing migrants instead of promoting their own interests}},
  author       = {{Chatzikomnou, Fani}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Migrants squatters in Greece and the limits of human rights law}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}