TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cabot,Heath
TI  - On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece 
T2  - The Ethnography of Political Violence
SN  - 9780812246155
U1  - 325.495 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Asylum, Right of
KW  - Greece
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - Legal assistance to refugees
KW  - Political refugees
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Social work with immigrants
KW  - Folklore
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction. The Rock of Judgment --; Act I. Governance --; Chapter 1. European Moral Geographies --; Chapter 2. Documenting Legal Limbo --; Act II. Judgment --; Chapter 3. Engaging Tragedy --; Chapter 4. Images of Vulnerability --; Chapter 5. Recognizing the Real Refugee --; Act III. Citizenship --; Chapter 6. Rearticulating the Ethnos --; Chapter 7. Citizens of Athens --; The Machine --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Greece has shouldered a heavy burden in the global economic crisis, struggling with political and financial insecurity. Greece has also the most porous external border of the European Union, tasked with ensuring that the EU's boundaries are both "secure and humanitarian" and hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea. The recent leadership and fiscal crises have led to a breakdown of legal entitlements for both Greek citizens and those seeking refuge within the country's borders.On the Doorstep of Europe is an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process. Centering on the work of an asylum advocacy NGO in Athens, Heath Cabot explores how workers and clients grapple with predicaments endemic to Europeanization and rights-based protection. Drawing inspiration from classical Greek tragedy to highlight both the transformative potential and the violence of law, Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention while also exploring how Athenian society is being remade from the inside out. She shows how, in contemporary Greece, relationships between insiders and outsiders are radically reconfigured through legal, political, and economic crises.In addition to providing a textured, on-the-ground account of the fraught context of asylum and immigration in Europe's borderlands, On the Doorstep of Europe highlights the unpredictable and transformative ways in which those in host nations navigate legal and political violence, even in contexts of inexorable duress and inequality
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209808
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812209808
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