The main object of the doctoral dissertation is the study of the spatio-social transformations that occur in the city of Athens from the beginning of the 1990s until today, ie after the transformation of Greece from a "sending country" to a "host and transit" country of immigrants. In the context of the so-called "new migration" to the country and an ever-increasing "ethnocultural diversity", the main research questions of the dissertation are specialized in three parts. The first part of the questions concerns the access of immigrants to the residence and, in particular, the "housing routes" that follow until the access to the home. Do immigrants have access to private housing and, if so, to what extent? What is the profile of the immigrant owners, what are the characteristics of the properties they buy and through what mechanisms do they manage to become owners? The second part of the questions concerns the geographies of immigrants' access to private housing or, more simply, their spatial distribution in the city of Athens. In which neighborhoods and in which buildings of the city do the immigrant owners settle and, mainly, in what spatial relationship with the Greek inhabitants? In more specific terms, what is the degree of ethno-racial housing segregation in the city of Athens? Finally, apart from the spatial relations between Greeks and immigrants, the third part of the questions concerns the social relations of international coexistence that develop in the neighborhoods of Athens and range between relations of friendship, trust, and solidarity, but also relations of conflict, racism and intolerance. All the above questions are investigated through the combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, with the basic tools of a statistical sample survey in the archive of the Athens Mortgage Office and a series of 20 semi-structured interviews by immigrant owners.

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