Diaspora Research and Immigration Initiative – DRIMMI
Within the frame of the ‘Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program’ and the possibilities that this has generated, the founding of a focused research body on Greek Diaspora, Immigration and the Refugee was decided. This independent body of individuals was named ‘DRIMMI’ (Diaspora Research and Immigration Initiative). Aiming to provide an open-access resource that Greeks around the […]
Within the frame of the ‘Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program’ and the possibilities that this has generated, the founding of a focused research body on Greek Diaspora, Immigration and the Refugee was decided. This independent body of individuals was named ‘DRIMMI’ (Diaspora Research and Immigration Initiative). Aiming to provide an open-access resource that Greeks around the globe will be able to browse through and encounter the historical and current dimensions of the phenomenon as well as its potential. DRIMMI is an interdisciplinary body. It is supported by influential Greek scholars, artists and entrepreneurs.
DRIMMI aims to serve as a critical nexus that will promote the gathering and analysis of material and evidence, both tangible and intangible, through a series of collaborations.
So far, the project has been embraced by several Greek authorities, both state and regional, within and outside academia. We have signed an official memorandum with the University of Thessaly to collaborate on the areas of migration and identity, namely with the Vice-Rector, Prof. Ioanna Laliotou, who has published extensively on the subject. We have also signed a similar memorandum with the Contemporary Social History Archives in Athens and its Director Kostis Karpozilos, a historian specialized on migration.
Quite similarly, the Greek Foreign Ministry, through its ‘General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad’ has provided us with their ‘auspices’.