Ageing and immigration in the Greek capital. Policy issues and developments since the early 1990s
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2013-06
Authors
Maloutas, Thomas
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Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek
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Abstract
The paper deals with socio-demographic change and spatial transformation in Athens
during the post war period and, in particular, since the early 1990s. It focuses on the
interaction of two parallel processes —
the precipitated ageing of the native Greek
population and the rapid increase of the city’s immigrant population — in terms of
residential patterns that enable contact between the two groups, and of the poorly
developed local welfare state, within which immigrants have been acting as a substitute
for the underdeveloped services for the elderly.
The paper draws attention to recent changes in immigrants’ profiles and especially
to the decreasing inflow — and more recently the outflow (GSPSC, 2011) — from
neighbouring Balkan countries and the parallel increase of asylum seeking migrants
and refugees from war zones in the broader Middle-East, Afghanistan and the Indian
peninsula. These changes have led to a potentially less beneficial co-existence between
ageing and immigration for both sides in a period where public funds for social policies
as well as private funds for substitute solutions become scarce.
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Greek research, Greece, Australia
Citation
Maloutas, T., 2013. Ageing and immigration in the Greek capital. Policy issues and developments since the early 1990s. In M. Tsianikas, N. Maadad, G. Couvalis, and M. Palaktsoglou (eds.) "Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2011", Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek: Adelaide, 192-207.