UnSettle
Intersecting processes and experiences of urban displacements in Greece.
UnSettle is a two-year research project examining how different forms of urban displacement intersect across Greek cities — from housing precarity and gentrification to forced relocations of refugees and the everyday geographies of leaving and staying.
Challenges
Cities across Greece are reshaped today by overlapping displacements: rising rents push working-class residents out of central neighbourhoods; tourism economies rewrite who belongs; refugee populations are relocated, evicted, and relocated again. These processes are usually studied in isolation. UnSettle treats them as connected.
Conceptualising displacement
Displacement is not a single event but a set of intersecting processes — material, legal, affective. The project develops a conceptual vocabulary that lets us see these processes together, drawing on urban geography, migration studies, and ethnographic research with affected communities.