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2014
- July
  - Migrants found suffocated in crowded vessel, as 400 are saved near Italy
    20/07/14
    
    The Italian navy has rescued more than 4,000 migrants in recent days, with calmer seas causing an upsurge in boats trying to reach Italy. Photograph: Reuters
    
    Engine fume inhalation thought to be to blame for nineteen deaths, with vessel intercepted by Italian and Maltese
- June
  - Asylum granted to Guinean man in Belgium after threats in Greece
    11/06/14
- May
  - Immigrants Face Indefinite Detention in Greece
    30/05/14
    
    Credit: Nikos Pilos
    
    Immigrants Face Indefinite Detention in Greece
    
    By Apostolis Fotiadis
    
    ATHENS, May 28 2014 (IPS) - The evolution of immigration and border control policy in Greece and its interdependence with European funding suggests an age
  - 32 survivors of migrant drowning tragedy arrive in Piraeus
    12/05/14
    
    The yacht in which the tragedy occured is removed from the sea by coastguard officials on Samos (Photo: AFP)
    
    Remains of 12 unidentified victims of Samos sinking also taken to Athens
    
    Updated At: 15:52 Monday 5 May 2014
    Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh
- April
  - Dance-Banoptikon @ dancevacuum
    25/04/14
    DANCE-BANOPTIKON, Saturday 26 April & Saturday- Sunday, 3,4 ΜΑΙΟΥ at DANCEVACUUM CENTRE OF PERFORMING ARTS Diogenous 42, Chalandri, Athens.
  - Private security firms bid on Greek asylum centres
    03/04/14
    
    BY NIKOLAJ NIELSEN
    
    BRUSSELS - Private security firms are bidding to guard EU-funded migrant detention centres in Greece amid a report by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), which says poor conditions in some of the facilities are causing disease.
    
    Greek author
- March
  - Women and children among seven immigrants to die in latest Aegean tragedy - two still missing
    19/03/14
    
    Photo: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
    
    Since the early hours of this morning (Tuesday) the Greek Coast Guard has been conducting a rescue operation off the coast of the island of Mytilini, searching for irregular immigrants after the vessel they were travelling in sank. Eight people have
  - ‘From the Bottom of the Aegean Sea’ to Golden Dawn: Security, Xenophobia and the Politics of Hate in Greece
    15/03/14
    
    ‘From the Bottom of the AegeanSea’
    1
    to Golden Dawn: Security,Xenophobia, and the Politics of Hate in Greece
    Dimitris Dalakoglou*
    University of Sussex
    ‘Greece Belongs to theWest’
    ‘Greece belongs to the West’ declared, simplistically, one of the most f
- February
  - ΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΝΗΣΙ 2014: Η ΕΥΡΩΠΗ – ΦΡΟΥΡΙΟ ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΕΙ
    24/02/14
    
    ΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΝΗΣΙ 2014: Η ΕΥΡΩΠΗ – ΦΡΟΥΡΙΟ ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΕΙ
    
    ΣΥΓΚΕΝΤΡΩΣΗ & ΠΟΡΕΙΑ, ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 28/2, 5 μ.μ., Σταθμός Ηλεκτρικού Πειραιά
    
    Όχι στη συγκάλυψη – Όχι σ�
  - ΛΑΜΠΕΝΤΟΥΖΑ, ΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΝΗΣΙ, ΑΘΗΝΑ. Πολιτικές ελέγχου των μεταναστευτικών ροών, δικαιώματα, αλληλεγγύη
    13/02/14
    
    http://www.embros.gr
    http://embros-theater.blogspot.gr/
    
    Δελτίο Τύπου
    13/2/2014
    
    ΛΑΜΠΕΝΤΟΥΖΑ, ΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΝΗΣΙ, ΑΘΗΝΑ
    Πολιτικές ελέγχου των μεταναστευτικών ρο
  - Greece Hoping for Asylum, Deutsche Welle, reportage
    01/02/14
- January
  - Μια νέα αρχιτεκτονική επιτήρησης και ελέγχων αναδύεται στα σύνορα της Ευρώπης
    28/01/14
    
    apostolisfotiadis / January 2, 2014
    
    Εικόνα από το επιχειρησιακό κέντρο του EUROSUR στα κεντρικά της FRONTEX στην Βαρσοβία (c:Frontex)
    
    Στις 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 η Επίτροπος Σεσ�
  - Systematic push backs of refugees at the Greek border
    26/01/14
    
    Pro Asyl’s report “PUSHED BACK” reveals systematic push backs of refugees in the Aegean Sea, from Greek Islands and at the Greek-Turkish land border.
    
    The majority of the victims are refugees from Syria – men, women, children, babies, and people suffering fr
  - Greek Coast Guard drowned refugees near Farmakonisi during push-back attempt
    23/01/14
    
    Source: Infowar English version source: expressed.org
    Translator: Eleni Nicolaou
    
    Eyewitnesses accuse the Greek Coast Guard of drowning migrants off the coast of the island of Farmakonisi on January 20th, 2013. 9 children and 3 women died!
  - Dance-Banoptikon performance @Embros Theater, Athens Greece
    11/01/14
    
    DANCE-BANOPTIKON
    banoptikon.mignetproject.eu
    
    The dance group dancevacuum, in collaboration with Personal Cinema presents the performance DANCE-BANOPTIKON.
    Concept-Choreography: Vicky Vasilopoulou.
    Dancers: Artzi Barouxi, Marianna Kallia, Abdul Naza
  - Refuge, 18 stories from the Syrian Exodus
    10/01/14
    
    Refuge, 18 stories from the Syrian Exodus
  - Dance - Banoptikon. Dancevacuum & Personal Cinema @ Embros Theater, December 21, 2013
    02/01/14
    
    Photos: Alexandros Manopoulos
2013
- November
  - Meet the Somalis. The illustrated stories of Somalis in seven cities in Europe
    26/11/13
    
    Meet the Somalis is a collection of 14 illustrated stories depicting the real life experiences of Somalis in seven cities in Europe: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Leicester, London, Malmo, and Oslo. The stories allow readers a unique insight into what everyday life is like as a
  - Migrants dead as boat sinks near Greece
    17/11/13
    
    At least 12 people, including four children, dead as inflatable boat sinks off the coast of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea.
    
    At least 12 migrants including four children have died after their inflatable boat sank off a western Greek island in the Ionian Sea, port authorities say.
- October
  - Banoptikon at Home/s exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens
    28/10/13
    Banoptikon videogame, Home/s exhibition at Benaki Museum, Athens.
  - The Politics of Knives
    10/10/13
    
    The Politics of Knives
    from Ross Domoney
    
    This film is part of the research project crisis-scape.net
    The neo-Νazi party Golden Dawn has been active in Greece since the mid-1980s. Through the years, GD has attacked migrants, antifascists and homosexuals, o
  - Italy boat sinking: Hundreds feared dead off Lampedusa
    03/10/13
    
    At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
    
    A total of 103 bodies have been recovered and more have been found inside the wreck, coast guards say.
    
    Pas
- September
  - Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos arrested
    28/09/13
    Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos arrested
    Greek anti-terror police hold leader and senior members of far-right party on charges of forming a criminal organisation
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    Helena Smith in Athens
    theguardian.com, Saturday 28 September 2013 13.28 BST
  - Impossible biographies
    18/09/13
  - PAKISTAN’S GREEK TRAGEDY
    11/09/13
    
    Detention center in Amygdaleza, just outside of Athens. Nikos Pilos
    
    FOR MIGRANTS SEEKING A BETTER LIFE, GREECE CAN BE CRUELLY INHOSPITABLE.
    BY NIKOLIA APOSTOLOU
    
    It was one of his usual journeys. Late every Thursday, Shehzad Luqman would bicycle through th
- August
  - The Transformation of the Summer Pasture: Geography, Migration, and Social Change in the Middle East
    31/08/13
    
    The Transformation of the Summer Pasture: Geography, Migration, and Social Change in the Middle East
    
    Chris Gratien, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgetown University
    
    Summer is upon us and as in many summers past, millions will visit the various beaches of Turkey's A
  - Immigration detention centres – “Warehouses” of souls and bodies
    21/08/13
    
    Press announcement – Lawyers for the rights of migrants and refugees.
    
    Athens, 14 August 2013
    
    In crisis-stricken Greece operation ‘Xenios Zeus’ has been used by the Greek government as a means of rounding up a redundant and unemployed segment of the migra
- July
  - Lampedusa No Finger Print
    24/07/13
  - Global capitalism and 21st century fascism
    20/07/13
    
    An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp on July 18, 2013 near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, some 8 kilometers from the Jordanian-Syrian border. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
    
    The global economic crisis and the attack on immigrant rights are bound together in a web
  - Number 9 - Stop violence at the borders!
    16/07/13
  - Banoptikon Storyboard
    10/07/13
  - Banoptikon @ Festival Miden , Kalamata, GR
    08/07/13
  - European Citizenship and the Place of Migrants’ Struggles in a New Radical Europe: a talk with Sandro Mezzadra
    03/07/13
    
    Interviewers: Raia Apostolova and Mathias Fiedler
    
    On June 22 a group of migrants declared a hunger strike in Munich, Germany. The strike struck at the heart of the European Empire which in the last decades has been the source of the migration policies responsible for the
- June
  - Banoptikon @ Antiracist Festival 2013, Athens
    30/06/13
  - Wrong decisions can have irreparable consequences
    26/06/13
  - Social Crisis in Greece: The Plight of The Refugees
    25/06/13
    
    Social Crisis in Greece: The Plight of The Refugees
    
    By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
    Global Research, June 03, 2013
    Url of this article:
    
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/social-cri
    
    Axmed, a Somalian refugee, has been stuck in Athens for over
  - UnfAir-Berlin -- Protestaktion gegen Charterabschiebungen im Flughafen Tegel
    19/06/13
  - Mapping Racist/Fascist Attacks in Athens
    07/06/13
    
    From Occupied London
    
    A new project Mapping Racist Violence in Athens was just released. The aim of this map is to provide up-to-date information about racist attacks taking place in Athens and other Greek cities. The map is accessible here:
    
    map.crisis-sc
- May
  - City on the run. Banoptikon videogame presentation at Hybrid City conference
    29/05/13
    
    Banoptikon videogame
    City on the run
    
    Ilias Marmaras
    Personal Cinema Collective & Collaborators
    Athens, Greece
    
    Abstract.
    
    The following paper is a description of a project that took place the last three ye
  - BANOPTIKON - The Game
    27/05/13
    
    The Banoptikon videogame project, is related to the broader E.U. research program MIG@NET (https://mignet.transludic.net). The program searches and examines different aspects of current migrational politics and the issues that are generated from the power relations between migrants, "

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