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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cabot, Heath

Titel

On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. This volume 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. The author explores how workers and clients grapple with predicaments endemic to Europeanization and rights-based protection. She 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. In contemporary Greece, relationships between insiders and outsiders are radically reconfigured through legal, political, and economic crises.