A N A LY S I S DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS BORDERS AND CORONAVIRUS: REFUGEE POLICY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN A TIME OF A DUAL CRISIS IN GREECE Dimitris Angelidis, Fotini Kokkinaki, Xenia Kounalaki, Melpomeni Maragidou, Lefteris Papagiannakis, Alexandros Sakellariou, Pavlos Haramis January 2021 Both the corona pandemic and the border crisis with Turkey have triggered tough deterrence policies, even outright violations of international law and refugee rights, always in the name of containing the health crisis and of national security.  National and religious populism has re-awakened, with the complicity of the Church and a portion of the Press. Those who tried to react to this dominant narrative have been denounced as fanatics of political correctness and potential censors. Freedom of expression has thus often become a pretext for promoting hate speech.  Linking refugees, directly or indirectly, with the coronavirus and the threat to national security has spread to public discourse and the media, thus awakening racist and xenophobic reflexes. As a result, progress in integration policies, from housing and education to the protection of women from gender-based violence, has been undermined.