{"id":28166,"date":"2015-06-15T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/irma-meleti-periptosis-paratypi-metanastefsi-apo-to-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:04:52","slug":"irma-meleti-periptosis-paratypi-metanastefsi-apo-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/irma-meleti-periptosis-paratypi-metanastefsi-apo-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"IRMA Case Study: Irregular migration from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>Within the context of Pakistani migration, the case of Greece as a critical pathway for migratory flows to Europe during the last few years acquires a special interest. For a large group of Pakistani migrants Greece has become an important destination country: immigrants started arriving in the country in the 1970s so as to work in the shipping industry (Dermetzopoulos et al., 2009; Leghari, 2009), which, according to Tonchev, was due to bilateral and trade agreements signed for their temporary employment (2007); their influx has gradually and steadily increased in the subsequent years taking irregular forms, both in terms of entry and residence status. A question that emerges with urgency both in the scholarly literature and in public life nowadays, then, is why and how people decide to migrate embarking upon a journey and a project that is irregular? To what extent migration control policies affect their decisions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: Michaela Maroufof<\/p>\n<p><strong>IRMA Case Study<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IRMA-Case-Study_PAKISTAN-EN.pdf\">\u2018It is not just the money. It is also how the people think over there\u2019 Retracing the journey of Pakistani migrants to Greece<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the context of Pakistani migration, the case of Greece as a critical pathway for migratory flows to Europe during the last few years acquires a special interest. For a large group of Pakistani migrants Greece has become an important destination country: immigrants started arriving in the country in the 1970s so as to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[134,158],"program":[22],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44646,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166\/revisions\/44646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28166"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=28166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}