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SUMMARY:Local perceptions on refugee and migrant integration in the City o
 f Athens - Bianca Biagi  Associate Professor in Economics at the Universit
 y of Sassari (Italy)
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CONTACT:Judith Dixon
DESCRIPTION:{ABOUT THE SPEAKER}  \nBianca Biagi is a researcher at the Cen
 tre for North South Economic Research (CRENoS)- University of Sassari and 
 Cagliari (Italy) and involved in the Doctoral Programme of Gran Sasso Scie
 nce Intitute (GSSI)- L’Aquila (Italy). She teaches Public Economics\, Po
 litical Economy\, Regional Economics and Policies\, and Tourism Policies a
 t the University of Sassari. She specialized in Tourism Economics at the U
 niversity of Perugia (Italy)\; Urban and Regional Science in UK at the Uni
 versity of Reading (MSc) and University of Southampton (MPhil). She earned
  the Italian Doctorate in Social Science (economics) at the University of 
 Sassari (Italy). Her publications cover a range of topics in regional and 
 urban economics including\, interregional migration and labour markets\, q
 uality of life and welfare in regions and urban settlements\, tourism impa
 ct and externalities\; regional productivity and multipliers. \n\n\nFollow
 ing the outbreak of the refugee crisis in Europe in the summer of 2015\, t
 he City of Athens has found itself in the forefront of an unprecedented cr
 isis for both Greece and Europe. As thousands of refugees and migrants arr
 ived to Greece on their journey to other European countries\, Athens becam
 e the biggest European city of transit and has seen the greatest influx of
  refugees.\nToday\, as the number of migrants and refugees that will remai
 n in the country – and in Athens in particular – still remains uncerta
 in\, it is of paramount importance to keep track and have a full understan
 ding of the constantly changing profile of the migrant population within t
 he geographical boundaries of the Municipality\, in order to design urban 
 policies for their inclusion and integration\, while also safeguarding soc
 ial cohesion in the local neighbourhoods of the city. \nThe present paper 
 uses a unique dataset which is based on field surveys of refugees living i
 n the city of Athens and interviews of local residents of neighbourhoods i
 n Athens. It provides rich information on the sociodemographic characteris
 tics and the quality of life of the refugee/immigrant population living in
  Athens\, but also on the perceptions and possible challenges arising from
  the coexistence of the Athenian population and the urban refugee and migr
 ant populations. We make use of this data to empirically examine what dete
 rmines local perceptions regarding the possibilities for inclusion and int
 egration of the newly arrived populations\, while also looking at geograph
 ical variations in perceptions based on the ‘visibility’ of refugees a
 nd migrants at the local/neighbourhood level
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 3
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