13 Syrian women have been interviewed in order to gather information and insight on these women's experiences and lives of premigration, during migration and after migration.

In this study, specifically, it is aimed at understanding and revealing Syrian women's psychosocial states and their effects, living in Turkey which hosts the most refugee and asylum seekers in the Word because of conflicts and war in the neughboring Middle East. Migration has become among the most emerging topic as escalating local conflicts and poverty in the World. Connecting the legal and societal status quo, albeit appearing as conceptually distinct aspects of analysis, is one of the main objectives of this contribution, since the proclaimed refugee crisis poses as a unique opportunity to showcase the interactions between the macro- and micro-level and, most notably, the effect of the former to the latter.

If migration is not a novel phenomenon but Europe's reactions to it are gradually becoming harsher, can these last two years be perceived as such a threatening 'crisis' or should we carefully trace other, latent and deeper, dynamics at play before placing the ‘crisis’ label? In other words, which are the components of the current crisis in Greece and, consequently, how could these crisis components affect the symbiosis between the host society and the migrants in the near future? The article’s structure aims to utilize a retrospective analysis of the predominantly negative attitudes towards migration in Greece – when the incoming influx was not, at least logistically, such a ‘’crisis’’ - and combine it with present policy and legal challenges which potentially legitimize and provide an excuse for pre-existing hostilities to manifest. Acknowledging the complexity and fragmentation of the migration phenomenon, the aim of this contribution is to delve into a set of highly problematic aspects of the situation that can potentially pinpoint to the pre-existence of other 'crises', the combination of which manifests now as 'refugee crisis'.

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