Image from the Crossing Border World Conference organized by The Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies (CITS) in collaboration with the University of Aegean (Laboratory EKNEXA-Department of Sociology) , Lesvos, Greece, July 2016. Picture by Yannis Behrakis-Reuters.
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