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The article focuses on the new migrations from Greece to Germany in times of the financial crisis. In the first part of the article, the structural conditions of the new migration phenomena since 2009 will be compared with the so-called “guest workers” migration from Greece to Germany during the 1960s. In the second part of the article, a case study from a research project on new migration processes to Germany will be presented, focusing on biographical perspectives. It will be shown that the biographical research perspective is particularly well-suited to the empirical investigation of new migrations, because it offers a way of empirically capturing the diversity and complexity of migration phenomena through reconstructive biographical analysis. Thus, the subjective dimension of action and the competencies of the so-called “newcomers” can be examined as ways of coping with crises in the process of migration, and the dynamics of the new migrations can be investigated. In the last part of the article, the thesis will be discussed, that in the context of the financial crisis, new migration forms and family networks are constituted as transnational social support, in which transmigration (Glick Schiller et al. 1992) becomes established as a way of life through transgenerational subject practices.
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Evgenia Karras (personal interview, 20 July 2013).
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By biographical process, I mean the reconstruction of the biographical life transformation and the negotiation of identity which takes place in migration processes. These processes can be understood with the help of the analytical concept of “biographical work”, which refers to the role of biographical reflexivity in making sense of orienting oneself over a life-time.
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Siouti, I. (2019). New Migrations from Greece to Germany in Times of the Financial Crisis: Biographical Research Perspectives. In: Panagiotopoulou, J., Rosen, L., Kirsch, C., Chatzidaki, A. (eds) 'New' Migration of Families from Greece to Europe and Canada. Inklusion und Bildung in Migrationsgesellschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25521-3_4
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