Ethnic Return Migration, Selective Incentives, and the Right to Freedom of Movement in Post-Cold War Greece

What is it about?

What is the state’s logic in engineering the settlement of certain groups of repatriated co-ethnics but not others? In particular, why did the Greek state become involved with the settlement of the Greeks from the former Soviet Union in Thrace in the 1990s but not those from Albania? Moreover, why did the Greek state shift its policy toward the Greeks from the former Soviet Union in 2000 to one of gradated help for settlement across Greece? These are important questions both from a human rights perspective but also for comparative politics. I consider various answers to these questions ranging from ethnic affinity and decentralization policies to foreign policy concerns.

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