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Gemi, Eda

Eda
Gemi

https://unyt.academia.edu/EdaGemi

Dr. Eda Gemi is a political sociologist specialized in governance of migration in Southeast Europe and Western Balkans. She is Associate Professor at the University of New York Tirana where she holds the positions of the Head of the Law Department and the Director of ICL Master Program. Dr. Gemi is Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where, from 2012 to 2016, she held the position of the Head of Migration Unit. She currently serves as national...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2673
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8147-0658
LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/eda-gemi-1a499413/
Twitter https://twitter.com/eda.gemi

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy ELIAMEP

    Research Institute, Athens, Greece
    Research Associate

  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK TIRANA

    University, Tirana, Albania
    Associate Professor

Research

Governing religious diversity in Western Balkans: The volatility of ethno-religious coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania

Authors Eda Gemi, Etleva Babameto
Year 2023
Journal Name Ethnicities
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1 Journal Article

Greece

Authors Eda Gemi
Year 2023
Book Title Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience
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2 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

The Incomplete Trajectory of Albanian Migration in Greece

Authors Eda Gemi
Description
The study addresses the irregular migration of Albanians to Greece. In particular, it analyses the key findings of the fieldwork with 87 Albanian migrants, the dynamic of irregular migration from Albania to Greece, the factors and the actors who affect them as well as the success or failure of the relevant migration policies. The report shows that the expanding possibility of legal entry into Greece has had the immediate consequence of limiting irregular border crossing. What emerges is that the dynamic of attraction exerted by the demand for seasonal work in sectors like tourism and agriculture, is critical in shaping the irregular migration map. The data of the case study showed that irregular flows are not significantly implicating new migrants. Rather, we see that the involvement of those who perhaps possess even rudimentary information about the Greek environment and maintain contacts with the migration networks (ethnic, family and/or with Greek employers) in Greece. Finally, the migration plans of Albanians have been shaped accordingly with the impact of the crisis on opportunities for employment in Greece, the legal status, the level of influence and facilitation provided by migration networks, the migration policies, the liberalisation of the entry visa for Albanian nationals (implemented in December 2010), the bilateral relations between Albanian and Greece, and the unstable political and socio-economic situation in Albania.
Year 2015
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Albanian Irregular Migration To Greece: A New Typology Of Crisis

Authors Eda Gemi
Description
Since the 1990’s, Albania has witnessed one of the greatest and most dramatic migration flows of its history. Today, over a million Albanians – about 27,5% of the total Albanian population and 35% of the active population (RoA, 2010) – have migrated abroad; by far the highest proportion amongst the Central and East European countries. In Greece, Albanians constitute by far the largest migrant community. The literature suggests that more than half of the migrant population in Greece is Albanians, with estimates referring to the pre-2005 period as high as 57.5% or even 65% of the total (Cavounidis & Chatzaki 2000, Kasimis 2004). The current background report seeks to present the size and main trends of Albanian irregular migration to Greece as part of the Balkans to EU migration system. The report is divided into two main sections. Section one set the background of Albanian migration in Greece by presenting an overview of Albanian migrant stock and respective socio-demographic features. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing the relationship between Albanian migration and irregularity, in turn, divided into three subsections. Irregular migration is first shown to be a systemic process, filtered through a range of institutional/structural, socio-economic and individual-level factors. In that context, the return migration or migrating to other destinations are seen as an immediate alternative strategy to cope with the financial crisis and unemployment. Section two discusses the typology of irregular migration of Albanians to Greece as it has been identified by this study. In this section, we shall analyse the types and the profiles of irregular migrants configured in this typology, the socio-economic factors and policies that motivate or prevent the irregular movements with a view to reflect the reality on the ground and to understand the perspective of the irregular Albanian migrants to Greece in the years to come.
Year 2013
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2 Report

Albanian Migration in Greece: Understanding Irregularity in a Time of Crisis

Authors Eda Gemi
Year 2017
Journal Name European Journal of Migration and Law
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3 Journal Article

The incomplete trajectory of Albanian migration in Greece

Authors Eda GEMI
Description
The study addresses the irregular migration of Albanians to Greece. In particular, it analyses the key findings of the fieldwork with 87 Albanian migrants, the dynamic of irregular migration from Albania to Greece, the factors and the actors who affect them as well as the success or failure of the relevant migration policies. The report shows that the expanding possibility of legal entry into Greece has had the immediate consequence of limiting irregular border crossing. What emerges is that the dynamic of attraction exerted by the demand for seasonal work in sectors like tourism and agriculture, is critical in shaping the irregular migration map. The data of the case study showed that irregular flows are not significantly implicating new migrants. Rather, we see that the involvement of those who perhaps possess even rudimentary information about the Greek environment and maintain contacts with the migration networks (ethnic, family and/or with Greek employers) in Greece. Finally, the migration plans of Albanians have been shaped accordingly with the impact of the crisis on opportunities for employment in Greece, the legal status, the level of influence and facilitation provided by migration networks, the migration policies, the liberalisation of the entry visa for Albanian nationals (implemented in December 2010), the bilateral relations between Albanian and Greece, and the unstable political and socio-economic situation in Albania.
Year 2015
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4 Report

Transnational mobility and transfers of Albanians in Greece and Italy : a comparative approach

Authors Eda GEMI
Year 2015
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5 Report

Albanian irregular migration to Greece : new typology of crisis

Authors Eda GEMI
Year 2013
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6 Report

Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe

Authors Eda Gemi, Anna Triandafyllidou
Year 2021
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7 Journal Article

Circular Migration between Albania and Greece: A case study

Authors Thanos MAROUKIS, Eda GEMI
Description
Although diverse back-and-forth migration patterns of Albanians have been taking place throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the phenomenon of circular migration is the most under-researched of all. This case study intends to bring up the diversity of the circular patterns of mobility of the Albanian migrants, try to understand the prospects of this circularity for the parties involved (the migrant, the employer, the host economy and the economy of origin), and critically assess policies at both sides of the border that promote or put obstacles to different types of circularity.
Year 2011
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8 Report

Circular Migration between Albania and Greece

Authors Thanos MAROUKIS, Eda GEMI
Year 2010
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9 Report

Monitoring and Assessing the Integration of Vulnerable Migrants In Greece

Authors Dia ANAGNOSTOU, Eda Gemi
Description
The present report provides an in-depth assessment of integration policies and outcomes in the case of Greece by specifically bringing into focus the needs of three migrant groups who for various reasons are commonly considered to be especially vulnerable: women, children and victims of trafficking (VoTs). Do the migrant integration policies and programmes in Greece meet the specific integration needs of these three vulnerable migrant groups? In addressing this question, the present report describes and evaluates both a) the general national framework for the integration of migrants and the extent to which existing legal provisions and policy frames acknowledge and take into account the specific needs and conditions of these especially vulnerable immigrant subgroups, and b) the extent to which the application and implementation of existing laws, policies and practices promote a degree of integration of migrant women, children and VoTs in Greece, on the basis of measurable indicators. The assessment of integration outcomes focuses on collecting quantitative (statistical) data about the levels of integration of each of the three vulnerable migrant groups in comparison to the following groups: migrant women in comparison to migrant men; migrant women in comparison to women in the total population (native women); migrant children in comparison to children in the general population (native children).
Year 2015
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Irregular migration in Greece : What is at stake?

Authors Anna Triandafyllidou, Eda Gemi
Description
The loss of over a thousand human lives in an effort to cross the Mediterranean has once again drawn media and political attention to the challenges that the EU is facing in governing irregular migration and asylum in the region. However, what seems to be still missing is our (experts’ and policy makers’) understanding of what drives people to put their lives at risk in search of a better future.The policy paper offers recommendations to the Greek government, policy makers and practitioners based on the results of the IRMA project.
Year 2015
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Migrants and media newsmaking practices

Authors Eda GEMI, Iryna ULASIUK, Anna TRIANDAFYLLIDOU
Year 2013
Journal Name Journalism Practice
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12 Journal Article

Migrants and Media Newsmaking

Authors Eda GEMI, Iryna ULASIUK, Anna TRIANDAFYLLIDOU
Description
This thematic report provides a comprehensive critical discussion about the ways in which the production of migration related news takes place and the special factors that affect it. Drawing on the literature on the subject as well as on the analysis of the sixty-eight interviews conducted with journalists and media professionals from six European countries: Italy, Poland, Ireland, Great Britain, Greece and the Netherlands, we argue in favour of a fair and balanced portrayal of migrants in the media and also highlight the current tendencies in news-making and programme production practices adopted in the outlets in the six European countries under examination pointing to positive features as well as shortcomings.
Year 2011
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MEDIVA diversity indicators for assessing the media capacity to reflect diversity and promote migrant integration : a tool kit

Authors Anna TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Sam BENNETT, Malgorzata FABISZAK, ...
Description
In the light of the MEDIVA project findings we have built a set of Media Assessment Indicators aimed at monitoring and evaluating a media outlet's capacity to reflect migration related diversity and promote migrant integration. Such monitoring and assessment can take the form of self-evaluation and self-monitoring (by the management of a media outlet) or it can take the form of an institutional monitoring and assessment mechanism, performed by the state, by a media ombudsman or by a media professional association.
Year 2012
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14 Report
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