Stefania Kalogeraki

Volunteering is particularly important for young people as it is associated with a wide range of positive outcomes. Despite the importance of volunteering for young people, there are relatively few empirical studies analysing possible patterns of inequality. The example of Greece is particularly interesting for the study of youth volunteering, as t...

With migration waves from Asia increasing in the past decade, numerous studies focus on how civil society organizations have responded. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the solidarity approach different organizations follow and whether specific types of solidarity approaches are related to constituency groups of Asian origin. Usin...

With migration waves from Asia increasing in the past decade, numerous studies focus on how civil society organizations have responded. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the solidarity approach different organizations follow and whether specific types of solidarity approaches are related to constituency groups of Asian origin. Usin...

During the last decades, the number of demonstrations as well as of demonstrators has significantly increased in most Western European countries. Some scholars support that protesting has become so widespread leading to the ‘normalization’ of the demonstrators. Overall research examining the ‘normalization thesis’ of street youth protest by analyzi...

This chapter summarizes and discusses fresh findings on youth political participation in Greece, based on a multiple methods approach with data from the EURYKA project. It highlights the volume’s contribution to the literature, which has mainly centered on the political participation of youth in countries of the North, with very limited work on Sou...

Studies on the relationship between youth and political participation argue that young adults today demonstrate a shift in their political repertoire of actions from institutionalized to non-institutionalized modes of political participation and online activism. However, only scarce research evidence exists on political participation patterns and t...

Gender has long been considered as one of the key determinants of political participation. Studies on gender inequalities in political participation rarely focus on youth and sporadically examine how gender intersects with other sources of socio-economic inequalities. The chapter using survey data from the EU-funded EURYKA project first examines wh...

Despite the strong revival of interest on youth political participation in the last decades, most studies center on the political participation of young adults in countries of the North, with very limited work on South European youth and on Greece. The overarching aim of the edited volume is to investigate different modes, patterns, and potential c...

During the recent ‘refugee crisis’ Greece became one of the major entry points by sea as high numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, primarily originating from Syria, entered its territory en route to wealthier European countries. The unprecedented arrival of refugees has triggered mixed reactions towards newcomers raising socio-economic and cultu...

This chapter examines inequalities in specific modes of non-institutionalised and electoral participation of Greek young adults in the context of the recent economic crisis. The Greek youth during the last five years was actively involved in different modes of non-institutionalised acts and an important segment participated in the parliamentary ele...

Since 2008, the international economic and financial crisis has been affecting the living and working conditions of European citizens in different ways and scope. Yet, the pattern is of rising unemployment, social deprivation and poverty, cuts in health, education and social security budgets. These negative socio-economic conditions have led to maj...

Between 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Greece became one of the epicenters of the European migrant crisis as it was one of the major entry points by the sea of thousands of refugees entering its territory en route to wealthier countries. The unpreparedness of the Greek state and the European Union leaders to deal with the massive migrant flows sig...

Introduction: The aim of this paper is to explore individual-level determinants of health inequalities across three European countries (Sweden, Greece and Poland) with different welfare systems and differently affected by the recent economic crisis. Methods: The data derived from an original cross-national survey conducted in the context of the EU-...

The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organization...

Since 2015 the massive refugee influx has challenged European countries in terms of tackling one of the largest movements of displaced people through European borders since the World War II. Greece became the major entry point by sea receiving massive inflows of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the Greek shores. While European leaders debate...

In the context of the recent economic crisis and rising inequality, interest in the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) as a viable alternative economic model has gathered pace in Europe. This article, based on an innovative content analysis approach of organizations’ websites from the LIVEWHAT project, provides a snapshot of the SSE sectors’ main...

Citizen initiatives flourished in the past several years, in response to the severe impacts of the economic crisis that affected Greece. The aim of this chapter is to offer fresh perspectives and systematic findings on such citizen solidarity initiatives in the country, both at the national and local levels. With respect to the former, the first pa...

In the context of the recent global economic crisis, Greece has been most severely affected experiencing the most acute recession in its modern history. Despite crisis’ devastating impacts on people’s lives, one of the most positive developments involves the increasing trend of citizens’ volunteering in social solidarity networks (such as food bank...

In the last decades, Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has become an everyday practice for an increasing number of citizens, and the SSE sector has been constantly expanding. Particularly, during hard economic times, SSE has acted as a viable economic alternative and as a means to support vulnerable social groups, hit by the recession. However, S...

In the context of the recent global financial crisis - the most severe crisis since the Great De-pression - Greece has been heavily affected in almost all aspects of the economic, social, political and in-stitutional spheres. The implemented draconian austerity measures under the bailout mechanisms have led to devastating effects on the lives of ci...

In the context of the recent global financial crisis Greece has faced an unprecedented recession with devastating impacts on individuals' lives echoed in record unemployment and poverty rates. Greek society has collectively responded by providing social support to those in need through the mobilization of social movement organizations, local author...

The crisis has hit parts of the Greek society severely and social problems increased. As a reaction several organizations were founded to provide social support beyond the welfare state. The article provides a first overview over such initiatives for the whole country and specifically for two localities. Using a web-based analysis of alternative ac...

Greece, in the context of the global economic crisis, has experienced the deepest recession in the country's modern history. The Greek financial turmoil is echoed in record unemployment and poverty rates, whereas the life of a broad segment of the population has been drastically undermined. The vicious cycle of Greek recession has trapped both nati...

Europe’s current economic crisis has spread to the political sphere and escalated populist tendencies and nationalistic politics. Specifically in indebted member-states the political crisis is echoed in citizens’ skepticism about an uncorrupted political system and widespread perceptions that political parties are not strongly ideological oriented,...

In the recent recession, the most severe one since the Great Depression, Greece has been considered the Achilles heel of Eurozone' s economies. Since 2008 the country has experienced an economic turmoil as well as an unprecedented social and political collapse. Due to the devastating economic conditions, the society’s social fabric has grown more f...

In quantitative social research, the operational definition of migrant is of critical importance. The foreign birth and foreign citizenship criteria most commonly applied to operationalise migrants in research are neither interchangeable nor mutually exclusive. Moreover, both operational definitions are interconnected with each host country's citiz...

The recent economic crisis has multifaceted social impacts including the upsurge in anti-immigrant sentiments in the European member-states. Ethnic threat perceptions are considered to be the cornerstone of anti-immigrant sentiments, whereas some scholars underline that economic threat perceptions play a pivotal role in explaining intolerance towar...

The paper explores inter-group relations by detecting divergences and/or convergences in ethnic threat perceptions and migrant-opposition attitudes between in-groups and out-groups within and across Greece and Sweden representing contexts with differentiated macro-level actual competitive economic and integration policy conditions. Using data from...

Children’s well-being assesses the quality of children’s lives. Although the concept sounds quite simple and straightforward, there is no unique and universally accepted measure of children’s well-being in the academic literature. There are two broad approaches to defining and measuring children’s well-being, i.e. the objective and the subjective o...

The paper presents the major benefits and constraints of the web-based drug surveys by emphasizing that the former may far outweigh the latter for specific research questions and designs. The benefits of the online drug surveys are practical and methodological ones. In the former, the efficiency in costs, time and resources are presented as an asse...

The mobile phone has become an integral means of communication in our everyday life. However, some mobile media scholars advocate that the adoption of the device is not a uniform social fact as differentiated gender patterns appear in mobile communication. The aim of the study is to examine divergences in specific usages of the device and mobile co...

Mobile phones have been spreading in the world faster than prior communication technologies (i.e., the television, the Internet). The adoption of the device has become even more popular among teenagers and it is used as a mean of accessibility, micro-coordination, security and emancipation. Mobile phones provide a direct communicative channel betwe...

Mobile phones have been spreading in the world faster than prior communication technologies (i.e., the television, the Internet). The adoption of the device has become even more popular among teenagers and it is used as a mean of accessibility, micro-coordination, security and emancipation. Mobile phones provide a direct communicative channel betwe...

Following a comparative approach it is argued that the modernizing trajectories of three European countries, i.e., the UK, Sweden and Greece were different, as the cultural heritages of the three countries under study, formed by specific historical, political and religious events have acted as a filter of their modernization processes and left an i...

Urban-rural differences in the prevalence of atopy and associated allergic diseases have been reported in several non-European countries. Within Europe, where such variations are less striking, a farm childhood has been postulated to be protective. We aimed to compare the prevalence of atopy in urban and rural children living in Crete and to examin...