Research focus: Greece

Although Greece is now considered a country of immigration, the manner in which migrants actually make their way into the country is still unclear. The widespread, "collaborative" knowledge of all modalities of irregular border crossing correlates with what could be described as a "border executive of improvisation", which can be seen in the relatively lax manner in which official control policies along the borders are implemented.

The image of the detention camp provides a basis for further illustration. In this context, it is not only important to see the border regime of the detention camp as an independent variation along the smooth continuum of mobility and its control. More significantly, Efthimia Panagiotidis and Vassilis Tsianos investigate whether and how such transit and border regimes can be understood as contingent fields of regulation for the temporary restriction of the mobility of labour with subjectivizing effects.