Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses and Practices in Greece
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ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses and Practices in Greece Anna Triandafyllidou and Hara Kouki European University Institute 2012/25 5. New Knowledge Country Synthesis Reports EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses and Practices in Greece ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU AND HARA KOUKI EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Work Package 5- New Knowledge on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in France Deliverable 5.1 Country Synthesis Report on Tolerance and Cultural diversity Concepts and Practices © 2012 Anna Triandafyllidou and Hara Kouki This text may be downloaded only for personal research purposes. Additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copies or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the research project, the year and the publisher. Published by the European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole - Italy ACCEPT PLURALISM Research Project, Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe European Commission, DG Research Seventh Framework Programme Social Sciences and Humanities grant agreement no. 243837 www.accept-pluralism.eu www.eui.eu/RSCAS/ Available from the EUI institutional repository CADMUS cadmus.eui.eu Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe (ACCEPT PLURALISM) ACCEPT PLURALISM is a Research Project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program. The project investigates whether European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years. In particular, the project aims to clarify: (a) how is tolerance defined conceptually, (b) how it is codified in norms, institutional arrangements, public policies and social practices, (c) how tolerance can be measured (whose tolerance, who is tolerated, and what if degrees of tolerance vary with reference to different minority groups). The ACCEPT PLURALISM consortium conducts original empirical research on key issues in school life and in politics that thematise different understandings and practices of tolerance. Bringing together empirical and theoretical findings, ACCEPT PLURALISM generates a State of the Art Report on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Tolerance Indicators’ Toolkit where qualitative and quantitative indicators may be used to score each country’s performance on tolerating cultural diversity, and several academic publications (books, journal articles) on Tolerance, Pluralism and Cultural Diversity in Europe. The ACCEPT PLULARISM consortium is formed by 18 partner institutions covering 15 EU countries. The project is hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and co-ordinated by Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou. The EUI, the RSCAS and the European Commission are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s). Anna Triandafyllidou is the Director of the ACCEPT PLURALISM research project. She is part time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), for more see www.annatriandafyllidou.com Hara Kouki is Research Assistant at the ACCEPT PLURALISM Project. Contact details Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute, Via delle Fontanelle, 19 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy Tel: + 39 055 4685715, Fax: + 39 055 4685 770 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/ and www.annatriandafyllidou.com For more information on the Socio Economic Sciences and Humanities Programme in FP7 see: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.htm http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/socio-economic_en.html Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 6 2. Tolerance and Diversity Discourses in Greece ................................................................... 8 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 8 2.2 Definitions .................................................................................................................................... 9 2.3 Greece and Europe ................................................................................................................ 10 2.3.1 National identity and state formation ................................................................................... 10 2.3.2 Citizenship in Greece .................................................................................................... 11 2.4 The role of Europe and the “West” ............................................................................................. 13 2.5 Cultural Diversity challenges during the last 30 years .......................................................... 13 Source: Authors’ own compilation from various sources. ................................................................ 14 2.6 Omogeneis/Co-ethnics .......................................................................................................... 18 2.6.1 Pontic Greeks ....................................................................................................................... 18 2.6.2 Ethnic Greek Albanians........................................................................................................ 19 2.7 Native minorities ................................................................................................................... 20 2.7.1 Muslims of western Thrace .................................................................................................. 21 2.7.2 Members of the Slavic-speaking Macedonian minority ................................................ 23 2.7.3 Roma of Greece ............................................................................................................. 24 2.8 Immigrants ............................................................................................................................ 27 2.8.1 Albanians ....................................................................................................................... 28 2.8.2 Georgians and Ukrainians ............................................................................................. 30 2.8.3 Southeast Asians (Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Afghani) ..................................................... 31 2.9 Definitions of tolerance in Greece ......................................................................................... 32 2.9 Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................. 36 3. (In) tolerance of Difference in Greek Schools: the case of migrant and Roma Children . 38 3.1 The Greek educational system and intercultural education ................................................... 40 3.2 Greece’s migrant and Roma school population ..................................................................... 42 3.3 Children of immigrant and co-ethnic returnee families ......................................................... 42 3.4 Roma minority children in Greece ........................................................................................ 44 3.5 Methodology and Research Design ....................................................................................... 47 3.6 Migrant and Roma Children Segregation .............................................................................. 49 3.7.1 Concluding Remarks ..................................................................................................... 54 3.8 Accommodating Religious Diversity in Schools: Tolerance or Acceptance? ....................... 55 3.8.1 Concluding Remarks ..................................................................................................... 59 4. Migrants and (In) tolerant Discourses in Greek Politics ................................................... 62 4.1 Tolerance and Xenophobia in Europe ................................................................................... 62 4.2 Tolerance and Xenophobia in Greece ................................................................................... 63 4.3 Case studies and Research Questions .................................................................................... 64 4.4 Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 66 4.5 Tolerance and (in) tolerance in Greek public life: Framing the Two Case Studies .............. 69 4.5.1 Presentation of the two cases ......................................................................................... 69 4.5.2 Frames ..........................................................................................................................