Twentieth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

One of the long-term challenges for the policy makers in the migrants’ host countries is the optimal geographical dispersion of the newcomers so as to strengthen their integration outcomes and serve the crucial goal of social inclusion. Almost five years after the outburst of the migration crisis though, there is still an ongoing political debate on the appropriate placement policy of the immigrant and refugee population arriving in Greece. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the internal redistribution policy of immigrants and refugees in Greece as described by the current reception and accommodation scheme implemented in the country. Our main focus is to check whether broader socio-economic phenomena ranging from the access to labor market, housing, education to the concentration of social networks have been taken into consideration by the national authorities while planning and implementing the dispersion policies. Furthermore, we delve into the outcomes of such policies with regard to the concerns arisen by the local authorities and communities. Combining indicative indicators for the aforementioned areas of interest, the longitudinal data will be processed with the well-known multi-criteria analysis method PROMETHEE. The outcomes of our research will be used to unveil the effectiveness of the implemented immigrants’ and refugees’ allocation policies in Greece, compare it with other European countries’ immigrants’ and refugees’ placement practices, illuminate the reasoning for the current settlement and provide the decision makers with policy suggestions on alternative allocation policies. This paper is prepared in the framework of the H2020 project MAGYC.