‘Illegals’ in the Law School of Athens: public presence, discourse, and migrants as threat

Abstract

This chapter looks at the hunger strike of migrants in the Law School building of the University of Athens in 2011. The focus lies on the media representations of the occupation of the building and the discursive construction of threats around the hunger strike. Notably, the construction of threat images turns out to be closely related to the university and the Law School building–both as an institution and as a concrete building–whose dignity was presented as endangered.