Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, Volume 3, Number 1

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Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration Vol. 3, No. 1required to close ostensibly open borders, and asylum seekers and migrants fleeingpersecution and seeking the rule of law: what the EU stands for is denied to them.While there is no functioning asylum system that assures fair and efficient asylum proceduresto all asylum seekers in Greece and provides for the regularisation of migrants in order to beable to be responsive to the migrants’ personal needs, be it asylum, local integration orsupport for the voluntary return, at the same time the European Union refuses to acknowledgethe migration issue in Greece and in other European border countries as a European issuerather than as a national problem by changing the European legal framework, first andforemost the Dublin II regulation (int. Kapetanaki, int. Nanou, int. Baltatzi, int. Koulocheris,int. Anastasiou and int. Pantelidis, all 2012). Meanwhile, migrants and border police areobliged to hold the ‘front’ in Patras as the Greek government continues with Xenios Zeus. 11Nele Weßels is a German national who holds a Masters in European Studies from TrinityCollege Dublin, where she concentrated on the utilisation of gender attitudes to other Islamin Europe. She is currently finishing her postgraduate studies in Psychology at the TechnicalUniversity Dresden.Janna Weßels, also a German national, is Quentin Bryce Doctoral Scholar at the Faculty ofLaw, University of Technology, Sydney. Her research focuses on the act/identity distinctionin gender and sexuality based refugee status determinations. She holds a Masters in ForcedMigration from the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.Interviews citedANASTASIOU, Alex, Director of Social Services, Greek Council for Refugees, Athens,Greece, 5 September 2012APOSTOLOU, Grigorios, Head of Frontex Operational Office Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece, 5September 2012BALTATZI, Eleni, Greek Student, Email Communication, 20 August 2012.KAPETANAKI, Daphne, Protection Officer, UNHCR Athens, Athens, Greece, 5 September2012KARAYUSUF, Ayhan, Member of Parliament, Syriza, responsible for the region Rhodope,.‏‎2012‎ Komotini, Greece, 8 September11 Just recently a major sweep operation was conducted at the factory of Peraiki Petraiki, detaining ‘about 100 migrants as part ofthe ongoing Xenios Zeus operation’ (see Ekathimerini 2013b).13
Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration Vol. 3, No. 1KATRIVANOU, Vassiliki, Member of Parliament Athens B, Syriza, Athens, Greece, 5September 2012.KATSIOULI, Christos, Director of Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) Athens, Athens,Greece, 3 September 2012.KOULOCHERIS, Spiros, Director of Legal Unit, Greek Council for Refugees, Athens,Greece, 5 September 2012MARASLIS, Evangelos, Vice Mayor of Orestiada, Orestiada, Greece, 7 September 2012.NANOU, Stella, Vice Director of Public Relations, UNHCR Athens, Greece, 5 September2012.PANTELIDIS, Haralambos, Border Police Union Chief, Aleksandropoulis, Greece, 6September 2012.PAPALEONIDOPOULOS, Giorgos, Social Worker, Praksis – NGO for UnaccompaniedMinors, Patras, Greece, 4 September 2012.PhotosPhotos 1-4 were provided by Lena Kampf, photo 5 was provided by Klaas Eller.References CitedAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (2012) ‘Greece Must Halt Mass Police Crackdown on'Irregular Migrants'’, 8 August. Available from:(accessed21 January 2013).COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION(2012)‘Proposal for a Regulation of theEuropean Parliament and of the Council Establishing the Criteria and Mechanisms forDetermining the Member State Responsible for Examining an Application forInternational Protection Lodged in one of the Member States by a Third-Country Nationalor a Stateless Person and of the Council Laying Down Standards for the Reception ofAsylum Seekers (Recast)’, Interinstitutional File: 2008/0243 (COD), 12202/12 LIMITEASILE 102 CODEC 1839, Brussels, 13 July 2012, available from: (accessed 29 April 2013).ECRE AUGUST (2012) ‘Greece Must Halt the Sweep-Operation “Xenios Zeus” and Ensurethat the Right to Asylum is Guaranteed for Persons Seeking International Protection’, 15August, European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Available from:14
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