‘This is a cage for migrants’ Delivered by Ingenta IP : 94.67.166.95 On: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:25:18 Copyright The Policy Press 9A very interesting illustration of this rejection in the region of Athens and especially in its central districts is the ‘map of attacks on migrants in Athens’ (from November 2009 to September 2014) (The City at a Time of Crisis, undated). 10 ‘Imagine a welfare state without funds; now imagine the clientelism of the Greek state as a specific, skewed variant of welfare for Mediterranean climates. And think, finally, what happens when this is gone: when the state is no longer able to offer welfare (as limited as that might be) to its citizen-subjects. A pillar safeguarding the reproduction of the citizen-subject and the perpetuation of its relationship to the state had vanished.… It didn’t take long to find another pillar, that of control through fear, which was epitomised by the complete criminalisation of the migrant subject’ (Vradis, 2012). 11 Racist Violence Recording Network, http://www.unhcr.gr/1againstracism/en/ category/racist-violence-recording-network 12 A €110 billion bailout agreement with the International Monetary Fund, the EU and the European Central Bank. 13 In total there are four social work academic departments in Greece. Three of them are operated by polytechnics (TEI) in Athens, Patras and Irakleio of Creta and another one at the Democritus University of Thrace. In 2013 the Greek government decided on the gradual close-down of the social work department in TEI of Patras. 14 Further research in the field is suggested. 15 See the section of this article entitled ‘The response of the movements’. 16 As Robolis (2014) claims, a wider view of these kinds of initiatives might constitute a model against the domination of the markets. 17 For more information on grassroots initiatives across Greece, visit the site of the organization named as Solidarity for All, a collective which supports grassroots initiatives across Greece, http://www.solidarity4all.gr/el/about-solidarity-initiative References Adam, S, Papatheodorou, C, 2014, Social medical centres of solidarity in turbulent times, announcement in SOS COHESION: Social services, welfare state and places Aftodioikisi, 2011, Kaminis: oi lathrometanastes na fygoun apo th xwra [Kaminis: Illegal immigrants should leave the country], 19 May, www.aftodioikisi.gr/dimoi/ kaminis-oi-lathrometanastes-na-figoun-apo-ti-xora [in Greek] Asimopoulos, Ch, 2012, Economic crisis in Greece, mental health and social work, Social Work, 107:167–80, Athens, Pan-Hellenic Association of Social Workers (SKLE) Athens TEI, 2014, Department of Social Work, Curriculum of studies, http://tinyurl. com/orrme8w Brenner, Y, 2014, EU launches Operation Mos Maiorum, Aljazeera, 13 October, http://tinyurl.com/lj4o7gv Crete TEI, 2014, Department of Social Work, Curriculum of studies, http://tinyurl. com/n3bec4n Dedotsi, S, Young, A, Broadhurst, K, 2015 Social work education in a time of national crisis in Greece: educating the workforce to combat inequalities, European Journal of Social Work (under review) Demokritus University, 2014, Department of Social Administration and Political Sciences, Curriculum of studies, http://tinyurl.com/khorj69 ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles), 2013, Dublin II regulation lives on hold, http://tinyurl.com/q2mwxcs 203