COVID-19 Crisis as the New-State-of-the-Art in the Crimmigration Milieu

Joanna Tsiganou, Anastasia Chalkia and Martha Lempesi
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Joanna Tsiganou: National Centre for Social Research, 10551 Athens, Greece
Anastasia Chalkia: Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University, 10562 Athens, Greece
Martha Lempesi: Center for the Study of Crime, 10559 Athens, Greece

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: The concept of crimmigration connotes the currently prevailing approach between the different fields of penal, administrative and migration laws. It seems that, progressively, there is an amalgamation of penal law practices with those of civil and administrative law processes in a way creating confusion as to the boundaries of each law discipline and rational. In addition, the protection of public health from COVID-19 interrelates with the above three fields of law while at the same time the measures undertaken for the confrontation of the pandemic are further strengthening the social controls already imposed towards the migrant-refugee populations. Based on the Greek experience, we are particularly interested in mixed migration flows’ status of a ‘prolonged reception’. We have decided to examine the cases of the ‘asylum-seeker’ population and the ‘undocumented’ population who, to a large extent, constitute a large unseen category for the national vaccine program implemented to combat the COVID-19 hygiene crisis. The basic idea supported by our present study is that the health field is used as an additive component to crimmigration as it helps the establishment of a concrete screening intensifying the already imposed migration controls. In addition, the official social controls imposed to combat the COVD-19 health crisis contribute to crimmigration through the intensification of the dangerization of mixed migration flows. Currently, the health field, affected by COVID-19, contributes to the intensification of the crimmigration regime and at the same time to a dangerous cul-de-sac.

Keywords: crimmigration; migrants/refugees; COVID-19; vaccination; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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