1c2rc – One hundred years, two refugee crises: Entangled Histories / Housing / Economies

The research project aimed to understand and analyse two major refugee crises of the 20th and 21st centuries in Greece, with a particular focus on housing and economies. The first crisis concerns the refugee displacement of 1922–1924, while the second focuses on the movements from Syria and Afghanistan following the summer of 2015.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the project examined these two refugee crises through multiple analytical lenses. Its main contribution lies in the introduction of the concept of entangled histories and events—a methodological framework that draws upon tools from history, anthropology, economics, migration studies, and social geography. This approach enabled the parallel investigation of two distinct historical periods by posing the same set of questions to two events that are described and managed as “refugee crises.” Through this comparative and connected perspective, the project sought to rethink the concepts of crisis and population management, proposing a new research method centred on the study of interconnected historical trajectories.