Subcontracting in Greece

In the summer of 2016, the park benches in Victoria Square, a typical neighborhood park in Athens, were occupied by a few migrants or a refugee family. Most nights around dinner time, a small group of volunteers gathered with a 20-gallon pot of rice and beans to share. People chatted together, shared messages on WhatsApp, and a few sang songs. More than 850,000 people had arrived by boat to the Greek islands and traveled onward to Athens or north to Idomeni, and it was clear that the Greek government did not have the capacity to house, feed, or even—as