CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kuepers, Sophia Katharina |
|---|---|
| Title | Climbing A Thousand Mountains - Every Day. Environmental Justice and Irregular Migrants in Lesvos, Greece |
| Summary | While environmental discrimination has been central to environmental justice research, the living realities of irregular migrants at the edge of Europe have been neglected. Drawing on ethnographically informed research in a self-organized refugee space in Lesvos, Northern Aegean (Greece), this research uses an environmental justice approach to describe the environmental interactions of irregular migrants at the sea border of Greece and Turkey. Narratives about reception and detention conditions are reflected in the light of access to environmental goods and benefits, exposure to environmental harm and interaction with host societies. The research shows that the situation of irregular migrants at an external border of the European Union is a significant field for environmental justice research of the everyday and that environmental justice can contribute an additional framing for activism locally and internationally. |
| Supervisor | Steger, Tamara |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kuepers_sophia.pdf |
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