Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 15, Issue 1 I would like to thank Prof. Steve Tombs for his comments and revisions on previous versions of this paper. Throughout the article I adopt the term “border crossers”, instead of the legal and bureaucratised terms “refugees”, “asylum seekers”, “irregular migrants”. In doing so I am morally and politically engaging with grassroots movements, which emphasise the fact that the problem is the border. Borders produce border controls, visas and passports, “legal” or “illegal” mobilities, bureaucratic and legal classifications of people as “refugees” or “asylum seekers”. iii All the names being used in the paper are pseudonyms. iv The original term used is “paravatikos”, (plural: paravatikoi) a term which in English is more precisely translated as “delinquent” and it means “deviant”. However, in some of the NGOs’ reports the term “paravatikos” is translated as “troublemaker” or “law-breaking conduct”. i ii 31 (Unformatted version, page numbers not final)