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data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2451\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2451\" aria-expanded=\"false\">On mediation and brokerage in humanitarian action and migration governance<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2452\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2452\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Village reborn in humanity (Skala Sykamnias)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2453\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2453\" aria-expanded=\"false\">The \u2018humanitarian town\u2019 (Mytilene)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2454\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2454\" aria-expanded=\"false\">The Municipal \u2018Triplet\u2019: Mediation in the Covid-void (Athens)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2455\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2455\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Informal practices of mediation in the process of asylum seekers\u2019 settlement (Athens)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2451\" aria-expanded=\"false\">On mediation and brokerage in humanitarian action and migration governance<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2451\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2451\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">On mediation and brokerage in humanitarian action and migration governance<\/h5>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Evthymios Papataxiarchis\n(Univ. of the Aegean)<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This paper introduces a brief theoretical framework on mediation and brokerage in humanitarian settings\nand more generally in migration. It is inspired by my ethnographic experience on the humanitarian\nmobilization and the establishment of the humanitarian regime in Aegean Greece during the \u2018European\nrefugee crisis\u2019 and based on a review of the relevant literature on mediation in anthropology and the\nsocial sciences. The following text is a working document that aims to clear the theoretical ground for the\nHuman(c)ity project. In this respect it does not include a comprehensive argument, but it is rather built\naround a set of points which I hope will encourage some further thinking around a set of questions about\nmediation and brokerage in humanitarian action. For example, what are humanitarian mediation and\nbrokerage, in theory and, in actual practice, on the ground? Which cultural logics inform the practice and\nthe subsequent organization of humanitarian mediation? What kind of resources are mobilized through\nmediation, by what kind of actors and to what effect? How do mediators and brokers account for their\nmediating activities? How are the mediating activities perceived by the involved parties as well as by\noutsiders? What is the impact of mediation on humanitarian management and how is it related to the\ntype, the subject, and the logic of mediation?\n<br>\n<br>\n\nHere, I argue that the critical rethinking of mediation and brokerage and their employment in our\nethnographic work can be very productive in approaching some key dimensions of humanitarian\nmanagement and humanitarian governance such as relief, protection in its multiple dimensions, and\nintegration. It particularly allows the ethnographic grasp of features of humanitarian action in the context\nof the recent \u2018European refugee crisis\u2019, such as the multifarious production of connections, networks and\nassemblages in the course of humanitarianization, the wide spread of initiatives of different kinds and the\ncirculation of meaning in translation, features that have impressed me as particularly interesting, not to\nsay intellectually exciting. It also offers a window to approach the impact of humanitarian action in\nrelation to the wider processes of globalization in the context of which humanitarianization takes place.\nIn one word, I believe that the analytical emphasis on mediation is ethnographically promising, and that\nbrokerage is good to think with.\n\n<br>\n<br>\nMy reading of the relevant social science literature is not exhaustive but rather eclectic. It is guided, to a\ncertain extent, by the research interests that dominate Human(c)ity. Based on my current understanding\nof this literature I could briefly distinguish two main areas or research on mediation. On the one hand,\nthere is an older literature on mediation and brokerage in the domain of (humanitarian) development and\nmigration. On the other hand, there is a more recent research trend about mediation in humanitarian\nrelief in \u2018Third World\u2019 countries. In one part of this recent literature mediation is approached as an\ningredient of NGO action that does not deserve special treatment. Another part gives special attention\nto the role of intermediaries in the realization of humanitarian projects. Also this upcoming literature on\nmediation and brokerage in humanitarian relief increasingly includes works on Europe.\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03bf: <a style=\"color: #f47732; text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/HUMANcITY_D6.4.pdf\">On mediation and brokerage in humanitarian action and migration governance<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2452\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Village reborn in humanity (Skala Sykamnias)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2452\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2452\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Village reborn in humanity:\nMediation in the making of the humanitarian arena<\/h5>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: right; color: ##7a7a7a;\">Evthymios Papataxiarchis (Univ. of the Aegean)\n<br>\nwith Alexandra Zavos (Univ. of Crete)\n<\/p>\n<br>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this paper I focus on a very familiar place, \u2018my anthropological village\u2019, Skala Sykamias, a small fishing community in Northern Lesvos. This border community became the focal point of the European refugee crisis. First, because it was the gate into Europe for hundreds of thousands of displaced travelers from the \u2018East\u2019 who followed the Aegean route during the long \u2018summer of migration\u2019. Second, because it attracted the attention of many thousands of humanitarians from all over the world, particularly from Northern Europe, and, effectively, became the frontstage of the humanitarian regime in Greece (see Papataxiarchis 2016a).\n<br>\n<br>\nHere I want to consider the effects of the refugee crisis on this community, the transformations that took place as the village became entangled with humanitarianism and subjected to the unsettling as well as shaping power of the (primarily humanitarian) forces that permeated it. I am particularly interested in the impact that the establishment and functioning of the assemblage of humanitarian structures, mechanisms and practices had on the locality. I call this process \u2018humanitarianization\u2019. At the analytical level, I depart from the narrow version of the concept of humanitarianization, which suggests the use of the language of rights and humanitarian values for the justification of practices that actually contradict or even violate these values (see Lemberg-Pedersen 2021). I also distance myself from the normative notion of \u2018humanitarian space\u2019 (suggesting neutrality) that dominates the official humanitarian vocabulary (see Hilhorst and Jansen 2020). Instead, I employ a broader version of the term humanitarianization that focuses on the structural processes generated by humanitarian interventions and their impact on localities. In this regard my argument is closer to studies which discuss the transformation of borderscapes under humanitarian rule or analyze the merging of humanitarian with securitarian concerns in the governance of national borders (see Walters 2011, Pallister Wilkins 2016 and Rozakou 2020). In the case of Skala the humanitarianization of the locality was intrinsically linked with the transformation of the border regime and the emergence of a caring border at the place of the securitarian one.\n<br>\n<br>\nFor the purpose of my ethnographic analysis, I approach the humanitarianization of the locality as a complex, threefold process i.e., a process that, as it unfolds, produces transformations on three levels. First in space, with the establishment of camps, offices, and other spatial structures for humanitarians and asylum seekers only. In fact, a new humanitarian spatiality, which I have called \u2018humanitarian village\u2019, was born out of this process. Second, in meanings, with the transformation of the locality\u2019s identity as a traditional agricultural and tourist idyl into a topos of \u2018solidarity\u2019. And third, in social relations, with the rise of new networks between the different categories of actors and the opening of the locality to a global audience through a sequence of honors, ritual visits and other celebratory acts.\n<br>\n<br>\nI start with a discussion of the humanitarianization of space, then I proceed to the analysis of the visual production of a \u2018solidarian topography\u2019 through the use of photos and the subsequent changes in the identity of the locality and, finally, I turn to the global networking of this small rural locality which was achieved by the transformation of Skala into a site of humanitarian pilgrimage and global significance. The above order of presentation does not reflect a chronological succession of events since it is impossible to reduce the humanitarianization of the locality in a linear time sequence (and frame it as a classic historical narrative organized in phases).\n<br>\n<br>\nAt the local level, the European \u2018refugee crisis\u2019 was a generative event, involving both the deconstruction and the reconstruction of established historical forms of action and patterns of sociality. The travelers of need who came from \u2018the East\u2019 broke the locality. The humanitarians who came from \u2018the West\u2019 contributed to the break down but also remade it in a new humanitarian form, what I coined as \u2018humanitarian village\u2019. First the visitors from all sides dismantled the very defenses and the cohesion of the local community. They made it a \u2018broken place\u2019 (Papataxiarchis 2016a). And then the humanitarians reconstructed it by imbuing a new content, attributing to it a quality of universal significance, eventually turning it into a topos of \u2018solidarity\u2019.\n<br>\n<br>\nAlmost one hundred years after its creation in 1922 by Anatolian ethnic Greek Christians, who were forced to leave their homes and come to Lesvos as refugees, Skala was reborn. This time not as a refugee but as a humanitarian village. It was reborn in (universal) humanity in a double sense \u2013 as an icon of humanness (anthropia) and empathy to the predicament of the displaced travelers and as a topos of universal significance and global reference.<\/p>\n<br>\n<br>\n\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03bf: <a style=\"color: #f47732; text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/D_1.3.pdf\">Village reborn in humanity:\nMediation in the making of the humanitarian arena<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2453\" aria-expanded=\"false\">The \u2018humanitarian town\u2019 (Mytilene)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2453\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2453\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u2018humanitarian town\u2019: An overview of the humanitarian scene in\nMytilene (Lesvos)<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Pafsanias Karathanasis &amp; Kelly Avanidou\n(Univ. of the Aegean)<\/p>\n<br>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u0397 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u039c\u03c5\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03ae\u03bd\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7 \u039b\u03ad\u03c3\u03b2\u03bf \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03af \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bd\u03ae \u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03b3\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u00ab\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\n\u03c0\u03b5\u03b4\u03af\u03bf\u03c5\u00bb \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03af \u03c3\u03b5 \u03b4\u03cd\u03bf \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03cc\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03c7\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ce\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b4\u03c5\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03cc\n\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03bf\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ce\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bf\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ce\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03ce\u03bd. \u039c\u03b5 \u03ac\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03b9\u03b1, \u03b7 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b5\u03be\u03ae\u03c7\u03b8\u03b7 \u03c4\u03cc\u03c3\u03bf \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03c9\n\u03b5\u03b8\u03bd\u03bf\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c4\u03cc\u03c0\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03af, \u03c3\u03b5 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03ba\u03ad\u03c8\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\n\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c4\u03c5\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03b1 \u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c4\u03cd\u03c9\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd\n\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd \u03b4\u03c1\u03ce\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03ad\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03ce\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03c9 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c4\u03c5\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b5\n\u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf, \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03c5\u03ba\u03bb\u03bf\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03be\u03cd \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ce\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ad\u03c7\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\n\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9.<\/p>\n<br>\n\u0388\u03c4\u03c3\u03b9, \u03b7 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03ba\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03c9\u03c3\u03b7, \u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u00ab\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\n\u03c4\u03bf\u03c0\u03af\u03bf\u03c5\u00bb \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u039b\u03ad\u03c3\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b3\u03bc\u03ad\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\n\u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03ad\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b3\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03ac\u03c4\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd.\n<br>\n<br>\n\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03bf: <a style=\"color: #f47732; text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/HUMANcITY_D3.3.pdf\">The \u2018humanitarian town\u2019: An overview of the humanitarian scene in\nMytlene (Lesvos)<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2454\" aria-expanded=\"false\">The Municipal \u2018Triplet\u2019: Mediation in the Covid-void (Athens)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2454\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2454\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Municipal \u2018Triplet\u2019: Mediation in the Covid-void<\/h5>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Marica Rombou-Levidi (Univ. of the Aegean)<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this paper I discuss mediation in asylum seekers\u2019 settlement in apartments in Athens by focusing on the EU funded accommodation program ESTIA (Emergency Support to Integration and Accommodation) and its implementation by the Municipality of Athens (MoA). Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between June 2020 and July 2021, I focus on a particular operational system employed by the municipality, the system of the \u201ctriplet\u201d \u2212 small working teams of three, a social scientist, an accommodation officer, and an interpreter\u2212 which constitutes an elaborate framework of mediation that links the migrants with both the local and central authorities. I argue that despite internal regulations and safeguards that were issued successively by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum (MoMA) aiming to guarantee a smooth settlement process for all parties involved in ESTIA, and despite the efforts of the municipality to apply these regulations in practice, the triplet is imbued by tensions and contradictions that undermine constitutional intentions, while, at the same time, further shaping the notion of mediation in the context of migration governance.\n<\/br>\n<\/br>\nThe research on which this paper draws, although planned before the COVID-19 pandemic, coincided with the successive lockdowns applied throughout Greece. Evidently, this conjuncture necessitated important modifications in the methodology, including to a very large extent the switching from on the ground fieldwork to online ethnographic research. This was a severe restriction, while, at the same time, being a positive challenge. The pandemic caused significant unrest in the field of migration governance. I conceptualize the period of the pandemic as one of numbness; as a mediation void which, I name the Covid-void. Here, I explore the shrinking of mediation for asylum seekers and humanitarian workers in the context of this void, while unpacking aspects of its impact on the former\u2019s minds and bodies. Thus, while the paper concerns mediation in the context of asylum seekers\u2019 settlement, it deals largely with the gap left by the freezing of mediation caused by the very particular circumstances of 2020-2021. Ethnographically, to consider the decline or the pausing of a process may be as important as examining its growth.\n<\/br>\n<\/br>\nDuring fieldwork, my interlocutors were Greek people working for state or private institutions, humanitarian actors, members of local society, and asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and several African countries \u2013 Congo, the DRC, Cameroon, Nigeria, Libya, and Morocco. Communication with asylum seekers was facilitated by interpreters, who, on the ground or online, translated oral interviews from Arabic and French into Greek.\n<\/br>\n<\/br>\nMediation in the framework of asylum seekers\u2019 settlement involves interaction\nbetween different parties. This interplay consists of initiatives and actions that are taken by all sides to connect the disparate social worlds of asylum seekers and Greek society. Therefore, mediation also refers to agency. Connection, however, goes hand in hand with distance. This is because asylum seekers&#8217; encounters with local society involve the bridging of divergent world views, cultural systems, value frames, social groups, and levels of political and social inclusion. In the case of the ESTIA program, the parties being connected were the asylum seekers on the one hand, and the UNHCR or the state on the other. To a large extent, in the case of official policies on asylum seekers\u2019 settlement in Athens, mediation acquired an institutional character. Here, I approach mediation as a bundle of social practices, social roles, social relations, encounters, and ethical engagements. Furthermore, I consider the work of the MoA and the implementation of the triplet system as an instance of biopolitics, in the sense that it constitutes a technique for the management of populations.\n<\/p>\n<\/br>\n\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03bf: <a style=\"color: #f47732; text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MRL_Mediation-COVID-VOID_ED.pdf\">The Municipal \u2018Triplet\u2019: Mediation in the Covid-void<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2455\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Informal practices of mediation in the process of asylum seekers\u2019 settlement (Athens)<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2455\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2455\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Informal practices of mediation in the process of asylum seekers\u2019\nsettlement in Athens<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ervin Shehu (Univ. of the Aegean)<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project in Athens concerns ethnographic research related to the\naccommodation of asylum seekers. The research negotiates the social\nmediation factors that affect the relationship of the asylum seekers from Pakistan and\nAfghanistan with the local society, public and private sectors. In particular, it focuses on the\ninformal forms of mediation during the accommodation process and explores two main axes\n(models) that have substantially contributed to this process:<\/p>\n<br>\n1) Ethnocultural and social\nnetworks\n<br>\n2) Informal humanitarian actors with reference to the field of housing and\nlabour.\n<br>\n<br>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe fieldwork was conducted in four ethnographic fields, namely: the\nneighbourhood of Metaxourgeio, Pedio t\u03bfu Areos, the Afghan Association, and the\n\u00abSolidarity House\u00bb.\n<br>\n<br>\n\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03bf: <a style=\"color: #f47732; text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/HUMANcITY_D4.3.pdf\">Informal practices of mediation in the process of asylum seekers\u2019\nsettlement in Athens<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2989065 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2989065\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b46a82e\" data-id=\"b46a82e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8db456 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"a8db456\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-def4ba7 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"def4ba7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1dad9a\" data-id=\"a1dad9a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b47f752 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b47f752\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #c7c9cc;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/logo-aegean-footer-el.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"86\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2671\" src=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LOGO_el_dark-300x93.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"94\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2674\" src=\"https:\/\/humancity.sah.aegean.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elidek_logo-300x83.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"83\" \/>\n<br>\n<br>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the <a style=\"color: #f47732;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elidek.gr\/ereynitika-erga-melon-dep-ereyniton-trion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFirst Call for H.F.R.I. 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