Eleftheria-Theodora Koutsioumpa | Doktorandin Stipendiatin
Home Institution
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Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
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Disciplines
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Sociology
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Biography
Eleftheria (Elith) Koutsioumpa has been a doctoral student in sociology at Sorbonne Paris Nord University since October 2021. She has been an associate doctoral student at the Centre Marc Bloch since April 2022. Having obtained her BA in Political Science at the University of Athens in 2017, she continued her Master's studies in Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris (2019-2021). Her thesis work focuses on the political (re)socialisation of refugees who have passed through Greek border camps and are currently settled in Paris and Berlin. This work is inspired by her research in the Moria camp on Lesbos, in 2020-2021, where she studied the processes of political resocialisation and the construction of the social category of 'refugee' in European camps.
Scholarship
Thesis funded by the Institut Convergences Migrations - ICM. The research stay in the Centre Marc Bloch for the period July-September 2023 is funded by the CIERA Partial Doctoral aid for a research stay.
Title of thesis
After the refugee camps. Long term socialization effects of the Greek border camp experience on refugees relocated in EuropeSummary of thesis
Since 2015, hotspots/Registration and Identification Centers (RICs) of the Greek border islands have become places of prolonged blockage for refugees, allowing for (political) resocialization processes to take place. Although most studies on (re)socialization within refugee camps concentrate on the transformation of refugee’s national identity and on a synchronic study of the camps, this thesis proposes a study of refugee’s lives “after the camps”. Based on a qualitative and comparative approach, comprised of biographical and in-depth interviews and participant observations the everyday lives both of “camped” refugees that have now been reinstalled in Paris and Berlin, this project emphasizes on the long-term socialization effects of the refugee camp experience and, more precisely, on their social identification as refugees, on the construction (or not) of a new social group, as well as on refugee’s attitudes and behaviors towards the State of the host country and the local population.
Institution of thesis
Supervisor
After the refugee camps. Long term socialization effects of the Greek border camp experience on refugees relocated in Europe
Since 2015, hotspots/Registration and Identification Centers (RICs) of the Greek border islands have become places of prolonged blockage for refugees, allowing for (political) resocialization processes to take place. Although most studies on (re)socialization within refugee camps concentrate on the transformation of refugee’s national identity and on a synchronic study of the camps, this thesis proposes a study of refugee’s lives “after the camps”. Based on a qualitative and comparative approach, comprised of biographical and in-depth interviews and participant observations the everyday lives both of “camped” refugees that have now been reinstalled in Paris and Berlin, this project emphasizes on the long-term socialization effects of the refugee camp experience and, more precisely, on their social identification as refugees, on the construction (or not) of a new social group, as well as on refugee’s attitudes and behaviors towards the State of the host country and the local population.