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On the Doorstep of Europe : Asylum and Citizenship in Greece / Heath Cabot.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabot, Heath, Author.
- Series:
- Ethnography of political violence.
- The Ethnography of Political Violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Greece.
- Citizenship.
- Social work with immigrants--Greece.
- Social work with immigrants.
- Legal assistance to refugees--Greece.
- Legal assistance to refugees.
- Asylum, Right of--Greece.
- Asylum, Right of.
- Emigration and immigration law--Greece.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Greece.
- Political refugees.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. The Rock of Judgment
- Chapter 1. European Moral Geographies
- Chapter 2. Documenting Legal Limbo
- Chapter 3. Engaging Tragedy
- Chapter 4. Images of Vulnerability
- Chapter 5. Recognizing the Real Refugee
- Chapter 6. Rearticulating the Ethnos
- Chapter 7. Citizens of Athens
- The Machine
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780812209808
- 081220980X
- OCLC:
- 881417696
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