On the doorstep of Europe : asylum and citizenship in Greece /

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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cabot, Heath (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Ethnography of political violence.
Subjects:	Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Greece. Emigration and immigration law > Greece. Asylum, Right of > Greece. Legal assistance to refugees > Greece. Social work with immigrants > Greece. Citizenship > Greece.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the rock of judgment
European moral geographies
Documenting legal limbo
Engaging tragedy
Images of vulnerability
Recognizing the real refugee
Rearticulating the ethnos
Citizens of Athens
The machine.