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moiralavelle.bsky.social
@moiralavelle.bsky.social
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Journalist based in Αθήνα. Covering migration, borders, politics, gender. Bylines @aljazeera.com, @thetimes.com, @the-independent.com, @npr.org, others. Previously @tovimagr.bsky.social.
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From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades, writes @moiralavelle.bsky.social
In Greece, Demonstrators Want the US Military Out
From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.

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In Greece, Anti-War Advocates Want the US Military Out
From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
This past weekend thousands of Greeks protested the US military bases in Crete and their reported involvement in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

There is a long history of opposition to American bases in the country.

My latest for @inkstickmedia.com:
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In Greece, Anti-War Advocates Want the US Military Out
From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.
inkstickmedia.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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"The Greek ban on people arriving from North Africa from claiming #asylum is a policy as illegal and failed as its 2020 iteration for refugees arriving from Turkey."

Minos Mouzourakis, lawyer at RSA @jacobinmag.bsky.social

✍️@moiralavelle.bsky.social @vedatyeler.com

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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees
Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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«Η 🇬🇷 απαγόρευση υποβολής αιτήματος ασύλου από Β.Αφρική είναι μια πολιτική εξίσου παράνομη &αποτυχημένη με την αντίστοιχη απόπειρα του 2020 για #πρόσφυγες από Τουρκία.»

Μίνως Μουζουράκης, δικηγόρος στην RSA @jacobinmag.bsky.social
@moiralavelle.bsky.social @vedatyeler.com
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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees
Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.
jacobin.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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“We didn’t come here for fun; we had no choice,” Mahmud from Syria

“When I see young people arriving now, I understand them,” said Theodor, who fled 🇬🇷’s junta in the 70s

Odyseas: “No one is here to take your land or your money”

New piece w/ @moiralavelle.bsky.social

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July 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
Greece has announced it will suspend asylum for the next three months for people arriving form North Africa. It is another revelation that its government aims to reduce the protected right to asylum to smithereens.
Reporting with @vedatyeler.com
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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees
Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.
jacobin.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
EU proposes rule to send asylum-seekers to ‘safe’ third countries they’ve never been to:

www.tovima.com/world/eu-pro...
EU Proposes Rule to Send Asylum-Seekers to 'Safe' Third Countries They've Never Been To
This will open avenues for the use of “return hubs” much like the one created in Albania at the impetus of a deal with Italy.
www.tovima.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
Wrote a bit about Greece’s surrogacy tourism industry, and the legal structure that makes it possible:

www.tovima.com/stories/gree...
Greece’s Surrogacy Sector is Open for Tourists, or at Least Some of Them - tovima.com
These “surrogate matching” programs rely on the fallacy that there are hundreds of women happy to travel to Greece to engage themselves in the demanding process of surrogacy and pregnancy for sheer al...
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May 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
Why is Athens facing a housing crisis? Why do so many of the apartment buildings look alike? And what does "vertical segregation" mean in the context of the city?

In this podcast I spoke with Social Geography prof Thomas Maloutas about housing in Athens:
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Explaining Greece: Athens' Housing Crisis and History
In this episode we explore the history of housing in Athens, and look into how forces like Greece’s protracted economic crisis and short-term rental platforms like Airbnb have impacted the city's soci...
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April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The report from @bordercrim.bsky.social, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social and BVMN can be found here: www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...
April 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"A report published by @bordercrim.bsky.social, a research team based at the University of Oxford, alleges that #Greece regularly uses prolonged #detention of #migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws."
by @moiralavelle.bsky.social
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Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in GR Police Stations
A report by Border Criminologies alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
moiralavelle.bsky.social
Wrote about the latest report published by @bordercrim.bsky.social, which alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws:

www.tovima.com/society/repo...
Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in GR Police Stations
A report by Border Criminologies alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws.
www.tovima.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM