Chania
The Muslim quarters of the city with their mosques, the Jewish neighbourhood and the new refugee neighbourhoods constitute a part of the history of the city of Chania that for decades has been invisible in the official narrative of the city and its past. Today this image has changed with references even in tourist guides. But still absent from this narrative are the subjects themselves, the people who came and left Chania changing the city in the 20th century.
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Refugee movements from the Global South from early 2000 to the present
Arrival and settlement of the refugees of 1922-24
The port of Chania was a place of arrival and departure, a place of separations and meetings throughout the century.
Migrations from the Balkans and Eastern Europe after the 90s
Post-war migration abroad and to the large urban centres of Greece
The stories of the small refugee houses are intertwined with the stories of their inhabitants.
The Jewish community of the city and its deportation
In the metochia of the turn of the century, as in the estates of today, the agricultural area was a place of finding work – albeit in very difficult conditions – for the newcomers of each era.