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Future plans and integration in the Greek cities: Time as a resource and implication of belonging in refugees’ discourse.

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 31(2), May 2025, 132-140; doi:10.1037/pac0000703

This research focuses on accounts of refugees’ future plans and documents the ways in which temporal constructions are used as a resource and implication of claims for belonging. For the purposes of the study, 25 walking interviews in the cities of Thessaloniki and Athens (Greece) with refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, the Ivory Coast, Somalia, and Palestine were conducted. For the analysis, the tools of Critical Discursive Social Psychology were used. The analysis showed that participants’ discourse on future plans and aspirations involved different ways of positioning themselves and complex and contradictory constructions of time (such as continuous and discontinuous temporalities, precarious futures and fixation on present temporalities, narratives of past events and time freezing). These constructions served as accounts for belonging and place-based bonds and as a warrant for claiming the right to remain in one’s place of residence (or for making accusations of being excluded). The use of time as a resource in refugees’ discourse on future plans also connected belonging with citizenship considerations. Last, the study addressed in-between temporalities of integration and the role of temporariness in migration policy, exclusion dynamics and institutional negligence, and related integration as a bottom-up construct to the concerns of Peace Psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 06/02/2025 | Link to this post on IFP |
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