Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Asylum and Advocacy in Athens: An Ethnography of NGO Politics on the Hellenic Frontier

在过去的十年里，希腊已成为广泛的劳动力和庇护相关移民的目的地。这使希腊成为欧盟事实上的重要前沿，并极大地改变了希腊关于庇护和公民身份的概念和做法。研究生希思卡伯特，由唐纳德L博士监督。Brenneis将在雅典的一个倡导庇护的非政府组织进行人种学研究，以研究希腊的倡导律师和寻求庇护者如何共同制定庇护和公民身份形成的法律的类别。这项研究还探讨了如何多重和经常相互冲突的法律的剧目，包括希腊国家，联合国和欧盟，重叠，并通过宣传过程中重建。研究人员将采用多种人种学研究方法，包括观察非政府组织的官僚程序，收集寻求庇护者的生活史，绘制寻求庇护者的社区和社交网络。通过提供一个在这个特定的非政府组织庇护宣传的日常政治的详细说明，这个项目将揭示非政府组织如何执行和重新设计庇护政策。此外，这项工作将作为在移民和庇护政策的建设中最经常使用的官方数据的重要质量补充。

Over the last ten years, Greece has become a destination for widespread labor and asylum related immigrations. This has made Greece a crucial de facto frontier of the European Union and has dramatically transformed Greek conceptions and practices around asylum and citizenship. Graduate student Heath Cabot, supervised by Dr. Donald L. Brenneis, will undertake ethnographic research at an asylum-advocacy NGO in Athens, to examine how Greek advocacy lawyers and asylum seekers co-produce the legal categories through which asylum and citizenship take shape. This research also explores how multiple and frequently conflicting legal repertoires, including the Greek State, the UN, and the EU, overlap and are reconstituted through the advocacy process. The researcher will employ multiple ethnographic research methods, including the observation of NGO bureaucratic procedures, the collection of life histories from asylum seekers, and the mapping of asylum seekers' communities and social networks. By providing a detailed account of the everyday politics of asylum advocacy at this particular NGO, this project will shed light on how NGOs implement and refigure asylum policy. Additionally, this work will serve as an important qualitative complement to the official data most often enlisted in the construction of immigration and asylum policy.