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10 This was made clear during a meeting of the municipal council of Mytilene in October 2013,
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11 Conversation during the author’s visit to the screening centre on 27 September 2013, as a member of a delegation comprised of a deputy and representatives of local civic agencies.
12 The term is Jérôme Valluy’s; see ‘The metamorphosis of asylum in Europe: from the origins of
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18 Copy in author’s archive.
19 Information obtained during a visit to the screening centre in Moria (27 September 2013). See
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20 Z. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Oxford, Polity Press, 1989), p. 77.
21 Ibid., p. 18.
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23 Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, op. cit., p. 18.
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no. 3, 2006), pp. 279–93. With respect to Lesvos, worthy of mention is the No Borders network, whose activities in 2009 led to closing down the ‘Pagani’ detention centre on Lesvos. See:
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28 See for example, UNHCR, ‘Current issues of refugee protection in Greece’ (July 2013).
29 See UNHCR, ‘Syrians in Greece: protection considerations and UNHCR recommendations’
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