Article on Immigration Detention and State Denial in Crisis-hit Greece, finds online renown

Several online news publishers have taken up an op-ed article written by Leonidas Cheliotis (Chancellor’s Fellow in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society at Edinburgh Law School). 

Several online news publishers have taken up an op-ed article written by Leonidas Cheliotis (Chancellor’s Fellow in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society at Edinburgh Law School ). The article titled ‘Immigration Detention and State Denial in Crisis-hit Greece’, discusses how over recent years the state in Greece has routinely deflected domestic and international criticism of conditions of immigration detention in the country. Dr Cheliotis argues that this has been achieved by wielding several discursive strategies, chief amongst which has been evocation of philoxenia as a natural trait common to all Greeks. Thereby managed have been certain important socio-economic tensions.

The article has been published in The Greek Star, the oldest Greek-American newspaper in the US, and on the political analysis forum openDemocracy.net.

The articles can be viewed below:

• http://www.thegreekstar.com/index.php/op-ed-letters/item/1780-immigration-detention-and-state-denial-in-crisis-hit-greece
• http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/leonidas-kcheliotis/immigration-detention-and-state-denial-in-greece

A fuller version of the article has been published under the title ‘Behind the Veil of Philoxenia: The Politics of Immigration Detention in Greece’ in the latest issue of the European Journal of Criminology, as part of a special section on ‘Immigration Detention around Europe’, guest-edited by Dr Cheliotis. This article can be viewed at: http://euc.sagepub.com/content/10/6/725.abstract