The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process
The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process
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DOI：
10.1111/amet.12032
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Cabot, Heath
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作者：
Cabot, Heath
在漏洞百出的欧盟边境希腊，据说财政和移民管理都处于危机状态，非政府组织在向庇护申请人提供法律的和社会援助方面发挥着关键作用。我探讨了雅典一个此类非政府组织确定客户资格的对话活动。当工作人员和援助候选人共同制作符合保护条件的生命图片时，深刻的不确定性和不确定性出现了。我认为，这种不确定性证明了一种经常被忽视的机构形式：援助候选人和服务提供者如何重塑，甚至拒绝从援助分配系统内的应得，受害者和脆弱性的主导形象。
On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce pictures of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerge. I argue that this indeterminacy gives testament to an often overlooked form of agency: how aid candidates and service providers alike reshape and even refuse dominant images of deservingness, victimhood, and vulnerability from within systems of aid distribution.