I found this week's readings about the refugee crisis in Greece to be very informative and thought-provoking. Defining citizenship in this situation is an extremely tough debate. We can ask many questions about defining citizenship in terms of living location, education, native speakers, time living in the location, etc. There are so many questions to define citizenship that simply are a struggle to answer. As mentioned in the articles, the number of refugees in Greece has been on the rise. With this many people, the original questions of "How do these people need to be defined in the new setting" becomes even harder to answer. How can you define this with over 13,000 people?

In terms of similarities between the refugee situation in the US and the refugee crisis in Greece, I was able to find some parallels, as well as differences. The similarities stand out being that both have a refugee situation occurring with people coming to the country from extremely different backgrounds, cultures, values, etc, Language and culture/lifestyle are big in this case. The difference here is that Greece is also suffering from a financial crisis. With this, I found another difference that was interesting to read about. In the video, it was mentioned that in Greece, they try not to call the refugee camps "camps." Rather, they call it a village. Also, in these "villages," they try to create a sense of community, belonging, etc, while they are waiting for their cases to be heard. This was almost refreshing to hear because it seems to be very different from the US. the treatment of the refugees is not the same.