The covid-19 pandemic and educational exclusion: Mapping the practices of refugee schoolgirls at the Ritsona Refugee Camp.
The present ethnography analyzes how students-residents in the Ritsona refugee camp are systematically excluded from typical education by the Greek state during the covid – 19 pandemic. Furthermore, by adopting an approach that focuses on both vulnerability and resistance, it examines the forms of collective resistance and the gendered processes of subjectification of the Youth Refugees Movement group in light of the actions they carry out so that they can claim to be included claiming in the educational system. Based on the recording of several artistic actions, public gatherings inside and outside the refugee camp and educational activities of the young refugees from Afghanistan, this thesis argues that despite the extremely restrictive conditions of waiting that prevail in the camp, collective subjectivities with transformative action clearly emerge. Through the above-mentioned practices, the boundaries of the political are expanded and, furthermore, it is the formation of a claiming collective and embodied subject that encourages gendered negotiations and strategies of re-subjectification among the members of the group under study both in the realm of family, as well as in their community.